Motion capture tutorials..Can anyone point me in the right direction...?

If people aren't necessarily forthcoming with tutorials or large patches, it's almost certainly because the thing you're asking about is a large and potentially complex patch.

One thing I'm sure your Max experience to date has suggested to you is that there are a lot of different ways to do many kinds of tasks. Since that's the case, perhaps you might have better success by breaking down the task you see yourself as doing [it's a little vague, at this point] into smaller, bite-size pieces and asking about *them.* In addition, you'll almost certainly have better luck when asking about a specific kind of approach if you either describe a very specific kind of problem, or - even better - if you add a piece of the patch you're working on and invite comment on that.

The last person who commented on your patch has already done that for you - they've isolated a portion of what you described and pointed you at a potential solution. Since it sounds like you're comfortable with the noise-production end of your imagined patch, perhaps it'd be useful to have a look at the tracking tools available to you [you might also consider jit.cyclops, or even roll your own using the jit.scissors object to segment camera input] and then proceed from there.

A discussion about how to proceed would be pretty different if you were using cv.jit objects vs. using jit.cyclops, vs. a Kinect vs. creating a few simple patches in Jitter that respond to input and applying them to an input framer arbitrarily sliced using jit.scissors. The good news is that you can do some research by searching Forum postings on nearly all of those possible futures.

And - depending on what it is you're interested in in terms of features you want to "watch," it's not necessarily rocket surgery....