General-Purpose Components

Here you can find the short descriptions of the general-purpose components. For detailed description of each component and its properties, select the component on the left (this will be added later). Please note, all Kinect-related components need the KinectManager-component in the scene. The KinectManager should persist across all scenes. To avoid having multiple KinectManager instances in the scene, see 'Howto-Use-KinectManager-Across-Multiple-Scenes.pdf'-manual in the _Readme-folder of the K4A-asset.

Component:	Description:
AvatarController	Avatar controller is the component that transfers the captured user motion to a humanoid model (avatar).
AvatarControllerClassic	Avatar controller classic allows manual assignment of model's rigged bones to the tracked body joints.
AvatarScaler	Avatar scaler is the component that scales avatar's body, according to the user's body and bone sizes.

BackgroundColorCamDepthImage	BackgroundColorCamDepthImage is component that displays the color camera aligned depth image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundColorCamInfraredImage	BackgroundColorCamInfraredImage is component that displays the color camera aligned infrared image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundColorCamUserImage	BackgroundColorCamUserImage is component that displays the color camera aligned user-body image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.

BackgroundColorImage	Background color image is component that displays the color camera feed on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundDepthCamColorImage	Background depth-cam color image is component that displays the depth camera aligned color image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundDepthImage	Background depth image is component that displays the depth camera image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundInfraredImage	Background infrared image is component that displays the infrared camera image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.

BackgroundRemovalByBodyBounds	BackgroundRemovalByBodyBounds filters user silhouettes, according to the bounds determined by the positions of the body joints.
BackgroundRemovalByBodyIndex	BackgroundRemovalByBodyIndex filters user silhouettes, according to the body index frames coming from the body tracking SDK.
BackgroundRemovalByDist	BackgroundRemovalByDist filters part of the real environment, according to the given spatial limits.
BackgroundRemovalByGreenScreen	BackgroundRemovalByGreenScreen filters color camera data, according to its similarity or difference to the color of the green-screen.
BackgroundRemovalManager	Background removal manager is the component that filters and renders user body silhouettes.

BackgroundStaticImage	Background static image is component that displays the static image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BackgroundUserBodyImage	Background user-body image is component that displays the user-body image on RawImage texture, usually the scene background.
BodyDataRecorderPlayer	BodyDataRecorderPlayer is the component that can be used for recording and replaying of body-data files.
BodySlicer	Body slicer is component that estimates the user height from the raw depth data, as well as several other body sizes.

CubemanController	Cubeman controller transfers the captured user motion to a cubeman model.
DepthIrFilterImage	DepthIrFilterImage filters the sensor's IR image with the raw depth. The resulting image is displayed on the given RawImage.

FollowSensorTransform	Follow sensor transform makes the game object follow the position and rotation of the sensor.
FollowUserJointPose	FollowUserJointPose makes the game object's transform follow the given user's joint pose.

ForegroundBlendRenderer	ForegroundBlendRenderer provides volumetric rendering and lighting of the real environment, filtered by the background-removal manager.
ForegroundToRawImage	ForegroundToRawImage sets the texture of the RawImage-component to be the BRM's foreground texture.
ForegroundToRenderer	ForegroundToRenderer sets the texture of the Renderer-component to be the BRM's foreground texture.
HmdHeadMover	HmdHeadMover moves the avatar model, according to the camera position reported by the HMD tracker.

InteractionInputModule	InteractionInputModule is the input module that can be used as component of the Unity-UI EventSystem.
InteractionManager	InteractionManager is the component that controls the hand cursor and manages the hand interactions.

KinectEventManager	KinectEventManager provides sensor-frame events to the registered Unity event listeners.
KinectGestureManager	Kinect gesture manager is the component that tracks and processes the user gestures.
KinectManager	KinectManager is the the main and most basic depth-sensor related component. It controls the sensors and manages the data streams.

KinectNetServer	Kinect net-server listens for client connections and sends the data from the given sensor's streams to its clients over the network.
KinectUserBodyMerger	KinectUserBodyMerger merges user bodies detected by multiple connected sensors.
KinectUserManager	Kinect user manager is the component that tracks the users in front of the sensor.

MultiCameraSyncher	MultiCameraSyncher enables synchronization of frames between the master and the subordinate sensors.
PhotoShooter	Photo shooter provides public functions to take pictures of the currently rendered scene.
PointCloudTarget	PointCloudTarget sets the point cloud resolution of the respective sensor, as well as the target render textures.
PortraitBackground	Portrait background is the component that sets the background image in the required screen resolution.

PoseModelHelper	Pose model helper matches the sensor-tracked joints to model transforms.
PoseModelHelperClassic	Pose model helper matches the sensor-tracked joints to model transforms (with manual assignment).

SceneBlendRenderer	SceneBlendRenderer provides volumetric rendering and lighting of the real environment, as seen by the sensor's color camera.
SceneMeshRenderer	SceneMeshRenderer renders virtual mesh of the environment in the scene, as detected by the given sensor.
SceneMeshRendererGpu	SceneMeshRendererGpu renders virtual mesh of the environment in the scene, as detected by the given sensor. This component uses GPU for mesh processing rather than CPU.

UserMeshRenderer	UserMeshRenderer renders virtual mesh of a user in the scene, as detected by the given sensor.
UserMeshRendererGpu	UserMeshRendererGpu renders virtual mesh of a user in the scene, as detected by the given sensor. This component uses GPU for mesh processing rather than CPU.
UserSkeletonCollider	UserSkeletonCollider creates colliders for the joints and bones of the given user, so they can interact with the physical objects in the scene.