Collada export with low-poly meshes and clothes

Collada export was always very rudimentary, so I spent some time bringing in some things available for mhx: low-poly proxy meshes and clothes. Apart from the default high-poly mesh, you can now choose between the three low-poly versions, ordered from left to right in poly-count order. You can also dress the character with some basic clothes.

The choice of mesh and clothes is made in the file proxy.cfg, located in the same directory as the MH program. The instructions in the file are hopefully sufficient.

I have tested to import the dae files into Blender 2.55 without problems. It does not work with Blend 2.49b due to some encoding problem, but this should not be a big deal since you can save a blend file in 2.55 and open it in 2.49b. The dae files have not been tested with other software, and I would like to know if there are any problems. In particular, there is an extra, small bone at the end of each chain. This was necessary to make things look good in Blender, but may cause problems elsewhere.

MakeHuman 1.0 alpha 5.1a: bugfix for non ASCII folders on Windows system.

 Since there were several problems reported when using non ascii folders on windows systems, we have created a new build and a new installer for windows, 5.1a. As far as we know there are no problems on linux and Mac-OSX systems, so there won't be a package for these operating systems. We hope this build will fix most of the issues people had with the windows version.

Download: makehuman1-0-0_alpha5.1a for Windows

Youtube channels

Curious about what happens in Make Human but too lazy to read the forums? On youtube there are a few channels where you sometimes can see new animations demoing MH features. Examples include MHMaker, where the official alpha video was published, ThomasL58 where Thomas for example put up his "Babe" video, and joepal1976 where I put up my own feeble bug test videos.

There are of course many more MH-related videos on youtube too. Search there and you shall find. :)

EDIT: Adding ZincChameleon to the above list. Anyone else got interesting channels?