Saturday, October 29, 2011

New feature + Halloween present!!

We are proud to introduce a long-awaited feature: the custom target loader. Now anyone can make and add custom targets in MH. Thanks to Eduardo Morais, the loader is still in our SVN repository.
To show how it works, we recreated a famous character, Frankenstein's monster. It can be downloaded from http://download.tuxfamily.org/makehuman/custom_targets/

To try it, you need the latest SVN (or the nightly build). These are the steps:


  1. Start MakeHuman. A new folder will be created in your USER/makehuman/custom. In Windows, this is usually in mydocuments/makehuman/custom 
  2. Unzip the file frankenstein.target.zip into the "custom" folder.
  3. The Frankenstein creature is modeled upon the male character. So, first of all, you need to move the gender slider to 100% male (fig. 1). 
  4. Now, go in modeling->custom. Press the "Rescan folder" button, in order to refresh the target list. A new slider will appear on the left (fig. 2). Now you can mix Frankenstein's monster with your male character.


Fig. 1











Fig. 2

4 comments:

  1. If I understand this correctly, it means that any app that can convert a Front/Profile set of photos from a smartphone could send a 3d object file through this process, and create a custom version of the user? That is truly ground-breaking! Kudos to the team.

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  2. Very pleased to see a custom target loader back into MakeHuman project :-) Nice job, team :-)

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  3. Thanks Olivier!

    @Zinc: no it mean that any artist can modify the base mesh to make custom targets that can be mixed with mh default morphs.

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  4. OUTSTANDING STUFF ! GREAT WORK ! If all the buttons are active will be perfect .
    I like the measurement stuff .
    will be a nice feature to control every part of a muscle (for ex. deltoid forward_deltoid , middle_deltoid and back_deltoid ...control lenght , arc and fatness).
    Sorry for my bad english !

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