Installing_OpenPose - kileyhartigan/freemocap GitHub Wiki

OpenPose can be a beast and it's not that intuitive (especially for programming noobs like myself).

I have a windows machine, so I'm going to discuss my process with that.

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• Go here and download the zip file (preferably the -gpu- version, but if your computer doesn't have a CUDA compatible Nvidia GPU, you might need to go with the -cpu- version, which will be easier to get running but MUCH slower)

• Once you've unzipped that file, move the entire openpose folder to the C:\ folder (so it's path is C:\openpose

• once you've downloaded, moved, and unzipped that, go into the /models folder and double click on getCOCO_and_MPII_optional.bat

• open a Command Prompt window (open the start menu and search for cmd) and type C:\openpose\bin\OpenPoseDemo.exe or bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe

Hopefully that will work, but in the very likely event you run into issues, keep reading.

I'm kept getting this error, which was eventually resolved by manually overriding the models folder download (see step 4b below)

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I'm going to walk through my experience following these Windows Portable Demo Instructions

Following those steps was pretty self explanatory for me until I got to step 3, reading the instructions file within the openpose downloaded folder, where it tells you to:

Doing that lead to this problem:

Where my system just kept failing and retrying to open/run/extract that getbasemodels.bat file.

So begins the Models_folder_manual_overridesaga, we manually went around it (somehow) by downloading the zip file from the internet!

After doing that manual override, I finally had OpenPose on my system.

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