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#Godot
#MakeHuman
#gamedev

Creating a character for games in Godot using MakeHuman

https://static.makehumancommunity.org/relatedsystems/godot/tomcat.html

This tutorial is fully compatible with the current versions of

* Blender 5.1
* Godot 4.6–4.7.
* MakeHuman 1.3.0

Comments and suggestions are welcome. 📝 If you liked the tutorial and found it useful, please feel free to support it (the donation link is in the tutorial). 💰️

A few actual notes 👇

#Godot
#MakeHuman
#gamedev

Creating a character for games in Godot using MakeHuman

https://static.makehumancommunity.org/relatedsystems/godot/tomcat.html

This tutorial is fully compatible with the current versions of

* Blender 5.1
* Godot 4.6–4.7.
* MakeHuman 1.3.0

Comments and suggestions are welcome. 📝 If you liked the tutorial and found it useful, please feel free to support it (the donation link is in the tutorial). 💰️

A few actual notes 👇

So first problem, can't get makehuman to work on #arch

Tried to AUR packages and building from git but none of them worked out. Anyone who has succesfully installed it lately? The AUR package has a comment from last year about the same exact error I get.

#makehuman

So first problem, can't get makehuman to work on #arch

Tried to AUR packages and building from git but none of them worked out. Anyone who has succesfully installed it lately? The AUR package has a comment from last year about the same exact error I get.

#makehuman

When exporting (non-Blender) Makehuman characters to UE5, the Root bone is 10X too big. UE5 does some crazy scaling if you try to change it to 1X. You can fix it inside of the Unreal Engine editor. The solution is:

In Makehuman, use meters as the scale. Use the Uengine (aka U4engine) rig. Export as an FBX.

In the Unreal Engine editor, import using default settings (make sure importing materials and textures is turned on, though). The eyes and teeth came in oddly, but I had ones from previous attempts using Blender's Makehuman plugin to use.

In the character mesh editor, choose Skeleton. Edit Skeleton. DO NOT CLICK ON Accept UNTIL YOU DO ALL OF THIS! On the right side of the screen (in 5.6, anyway) is a list of bones. Do not select any, or the Editor will curse you. Before selecting any bone, click on the + button. Make a new bone (called joint by default, because all old programmers are hippies). Collapse the bones under the Root bone, and move them under the new joint bone. Delete the Root bone. Rename the joint bone to Root.

Now all of the bones are 10X too big, except for the root bone, which defaults to 1X. Go down the tree, changing the bones to the new default (just click on the reset arrow). Do them all.

All of the bones are 1X. Now click on Accept. Then Save it.

Ta-daaaaa.

#UE5 #Makehuman #UnrealEngine

When exporting (non-Blender) Makehuman characters to UE5, the Root bone is 10X too big. UE5 does some crazy scaling if you try to change it to 1X. You can fix it inside of the Unreal Engine editor. The solution is:

In Makehuman, use meters as the scale. Use the Uengine (aka U4engine) rig. Export as an FBX.

In the Unreal Engine editor, import using default settings (make sure importing materials and textures is turned on, though). The eyes and teeth came in oddly, but I had ones from previous attempts using Blender's Makehuman plugin to use.

In the character mesh editor, choose Skeleton. Edit Skeleton. DO NOT CLICK ON Accept UNTIL YOU DO ALL OF THIS! On the right side of the screen (in 5.6, anyway) is a list of bones. Do not select any, or the Editor will curse you. Before selecting any bone, click on the + button. Make a new bone (called joint by default, because all old programmers are hippies). Collapse the bones under the Root bone, and move them under the new joint bone. Delete the Root bone. Rename the joint bone to Root.

Now all of the bones are 10X too big, except for the root bone, which defaults to 1X. Go down the tree, changing the bones to the new default (just click on the reset arrow). Do them all.

All of the bones are 1X. Now click on Accept. Then Save it.

Ta-daaaaa.

#UE5 #Makehuman #UnrealEngine

Oh, wow. I DO still have a copy of some of the MakeHuman results. Witness its uncanny horror!

These are, of course, without hair, which would have been added after.

I am so glad I rejected this idea! Daniel Fu's designs were awesome!

MakeHuman is a free software packaged designed to make realistic human models. Mainly for things like architectural rendering.


#LunaticsProject #History #MakeHuman #Characters #UncannyValley #LunaticsProject #History #MakeHuman #Characters #UncannyValley

Oh, wow. I DO still have a copy of some of the MakeHuman results. Witness its uncanny horror!

These are, of course, without hair, which would have been added after.

I am so glad I rejected this idea! Daniel Fu's designs were awesome!

MakeHuman is a free software packaged designed to make realistic human models. Mainly for things like architectural rendering.


#LunaticsProject #History #MakeHuman #Characters #UncannyValley #LunaticsProject #History #MakeHuman #Characters #UncannyValley

I found out why I kept getting some skin misbehavior in a character. It wasn't mixamo. It wasn't Blender. It wasn't technically MakeHuman. It wasn't UE5. It wasn't because shapekeys weren't pruned or that there was any welding to be done for the character. The export settings were fine. The import settings were fine. Every setting was fine, very fine.

The character's optional gloves were tearing when it moved, not its skin under the gloves. 🙄

#MakeHuman #UE5 #Blender #animation

I found out why I kept getting some skin misbehavior in a character. It wasn't mixamo. It wasn't Blender. It wasn't technically MakeHuman. It wasn't UE5. It wasn't because shapekeys weren't pruned or that there was any welding to be done for the character. The export settings were fine. The import settings were fine. Every setting was fine, very fine.

The character's optional gloves were tearing when it moved, not its skin under the gloves. 🙄

#MakeHuman #UE5 #Blender #animation

To *finally* get an animation out of mixamo, not have problems with rigging, and not be 100X too large, I made the Asian woman, rigged it to mixamo, skinned it, saved it, and exported just that. I chose one animation - the one the reduced doll rigging screwed up. I imported that model into UE5, and just that animation. Perfect, and the model is the right size everywhere. I didn't change the units from meters in MakeHuman or in the scene.

Next magic trick - doing a Save As in Blender, finishing the model in Blender and exporting it/importing it into UE5. The animation should just work. If not, there might be a problem with its morphs.

Then I'll try a bunch of animations.

#GameDev #UE5 #MakeHuman #Blender

To *finally* get an animation out of mixamo, not have problems with rigging, and not be 100X too large, I made the Asian woman, rigged it to mixamo, skinned it, saved it, and exported just that. I chose one animation - the one the reduced doll rigging screwed up. I imported that model into UE5, and just that animation. Perfect, and the model is the right size everywhere. I didn't change the units from meters in MakeHuman or in the scene.

Next magic trick - doing a Save As in Blender, finishing the model in Blender and exporting it/importing it into UE5. The animation should just work. If not, there might be a problem with its morphs.

Then I'll try a bunch of animations.

#GameDev #UE5 #MakeHuman #Blender

Blender -> Mixamo -> UE4 worked fairly well.

Blender -> Mixamo -> UE5 is not a fun trek.

The Make Human character exported from Blender looks pretty good in Mixamo, being of normal height and translation in the Mixamo animations window.

Once animations are imported into the game, this happens:

The materials mostly have default textures. The textures it is not using are all imported as translucent, necessitating a change to opaque for clothing, hair, and skin. Boots, when changed from translucent to opaque, also changed hue, losing red. Had to correct. It also has a recurring problem importing the base skin color.

Characters imported into Unreal Engine, which looked normal without animation, turned into 100X taller giants when animation was applied. This caused textures to strobe when resized. I thought it might be a units-based problem. Nothing I tried had better results. There was much texture strobe action.

I decided to stop using animations imported using the reduced Mixamo doll from Blender, and instead export the actual character as the skeleton for getting Mixamo animations, which is merged with the reduced doll. Those came in at the correct height, and without texture strobe effects, but with the character lying flat on its back. I can correct it in the character's blueprint, but it's no fun in the animation editor. Attempts to change its orientation in the import failed.

Then there is the AimWalk 1D blend. It requires 7 animations, some of which are unavailable in the 51 Sword and Shield animations from Mixamo, like Walk Right and Walk Left, ones one would think would take priority over some silly ones, but they are not provided. So I wound up using other animations. Close, but what a pain.

I'm 80% certain I'm 90% of the way there.

#UE5 #Blender #Mixamo #animation #MakeHuman

Blender -> Mixamo -> UE4 worked fairly well.

Blender -> Mixamo -> UE5 is not a fun trek.

The Make Human character exported from Blender looks pretty good in Mixamo, being of normal height and translation in the Mixamo animations window.

Once animations are imported into the game, this happens:

The materials mostly have default textures. The textures it is not using are all imported as translucent, necessitating a change to opaque for clothing, hair, and skin. Boots, when changed from translucent to opaque, also changed hue, losing red. Had to correct. It also has a recurring problem importing the base skin color.

Characters imported into Unreal Engine, which looked normal without animation, turned into 100X taller giants when animation was applied. This caused textures to strobe when resized. I thought it might be a units-based problem. Nothing I tried had better results. There was much texture strobe action.

I decided to stop using animations imported using the reduced Mixamo doll from Blender, and instead export the actual character as the skeleton for getting Mixamo animations, which is merged with the reduced doll. Those came in at the correct height, and without texture strobe effects, but with the character lying flat on its back. I can correct it in the character's blueprint, but it's no fun in the animation editor. Attempts to change its orientation in the import failed.

Then there is the AimWalk 1D blend. It requires 7 animations, some of which are unavailable in the 51 Sword and Shield animations from Mixamo, like Walk Right and Walk Left, ones one would think would take priority over some silly ones, but they are not provided. So I wound up using other animations. Close, but what a pain.

I'm 80% certain I'm 90% of the way there.

#UE5 #Blender #Mixamo #animation #MakeHuman

I used a reduced doll (MakeHuman MPFB2) export from Blender for getting Mixamo animations. What happened was that, in some situations, the character was normal sized. In others it was 100X normal sized, and textures were flashing like a strobe light, probably because of the sizing problem. I tried sizing it in different ways, without success.

What seems to work is to export the imported Blender character from UE5, and to use it for getting Mixamo animations.

Now, I should note that this character had its Mixamo rig merged with the reduced doll's in Blender, which didn't seem to help before.

The animation I tested came in with the character at its correct size, and apparently without flashing. However, the animated character was rotated 90%, making the character lay flat on its back. In the character blueprint, I rolled it 90 degrees. Looks fine in-game.

That was one idle animation. So far, so good. Now to download and import the rest of them again, using the exported UE5 character.

#UE5 #Mixamo #Blender #MakeHuman

I used a reduced doll (MakeHuman MPFB2) export from Blender for getting Mixamo animations. What happened was that, in some situations, the character was normal sized. In others it was 100X normal sized, and textures were flashing like a strobe light, probably because of the sizing problem. I tried sizing it in different ways, without success.

What seems to work is to export the imported Blender character from UE5, and to use it for getting Mixamo animations.

Now, I should note that this character had its Mixamo rig merged with the reduced doll's in Blender, which didn't seem to help before.

The animation I tested came in with the character at its correct size, and apparently without flashing. However, the animated character was rotated 90%, making the character lay flat on its back. In the character blueprint, I rolled it 90 degrees. Looks fine in-game.

That was one idle animation. So far, so good. Now to download and import the rest of them again, using the exported UE5 character.

#UE5 #Mixamo #Blender #MakeHuman

I like the old MakeHuman, which exported rigged characters without making me install a different version of Blender, and worked with send2ue. Being a glutton for punishment, I just *had* to use the mfpb2 Blender extension.

I suppose we don't use the Game engine rig now, but use rigify. What joy, spending a day wrestling with versions, networking, and python errors.

To export I can't seem to use send2ue because, firewall off, it can't find the running Unreal Engine, throwing errors.

What worked for everything (not rigged correctly yet) was to both export as fbx and as glTF. The latter gets the correct materials, but screws up the character's skin. Fbx just gets incorrect materials. The materials from the glTF export work with the fbx export. Gah.

I'm remarkably mellow.

#mpfb2 #MakeHuman #Blender #UE5

I like the old MakeHuman, which exported rigged characters without making me install a different version of Blender, and worked with send2ue. Being a glutton for punishment, I just *had* to use the mfpb2 Blender extension.

I suppose we don't use the Game engine rig now, but use rigify. What joy, spending a day wrestling with versions, networking, and python errors.

To export I can't seem to use send2ue because, firewall off, it can't find the running Unreal Engine, throwing errors.

What worked for everything (not rigged correctly yet) was to both export as fbx and as glTF. The latter gets the correct materials, but screws up the character's skin. Fbx just gets incorrect materials. The materials from the glTF export work with the fbx export. Gah.

I'm remarkably mellow.

#mpfb2 #MakeHuman #Blender #UE5

Man kan naturligtvis ändra storlek på bröst bröstvårtor. Händer kan krympas och muskler kan göras biffiga. Viktigt!

Man kan däremot inte öka till tjockare mage eller så. Tråkigt!
#MakeHuman

Okay, so after a lot of tinkering and messing around, I managed to get a 3D model generated with #MakeHuman to animate with the free animation assets from Mixamo. Still a lot to figure out, and some aspects of this character look pretty goofy, but I might be able to get this guy as the player character in #Godot soon!

#GameDev

Okay, so after a lot of tinkering and messing around, I managed to get a 3D model generated with #MakeHuman to animate with the free animation assets from Mixamo. Still a lot to figure out, and some aspects of this character look pretty goofy, but I might be able to get this guy as the player character in #Godot soon!

#GameDev

Hmm...
Januar 2019
3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265

#digitalart #gmic #blender #3d #makehuman #digital #rendering #3dRendering #art #b3d

Makehuman to Blender #Blender3d #Makehuman

Makehuman to Blender #Blender3d #Makehuman

Die Hand die unterschrieb
The Hand That Signed the Paper
Januar 2025
#Illustration zum Gedicht von Dylan Thomas von 1936 -> https://blog.goehde.com/index.php?/archives/75-The-Hand-That-Signed-The-Paper

#peace #love #nofascism #nowar #nohate #digitalart #gmic #gimp #blender #3d #makehuman #rendering #digital #3dRendering #art #b3d

Okay, so I kind of didn’t realize how far along #MakeHuman has come?

The successor plugin (MPFB2) is legitimately pretty great, and someone has even built a Godot Plugin called Humanizer that makes it possible to use these directly in-engine.

Okay, so I kind of didn’t realize how far along #MakeHuman has come?

The successor plugin (MPFB2) is legitimately pretty great, and someone has even built a Godot Plugin called Humanizer that makes it possible to use these directly in-engine.

Commedia dell'arte
Dezember 2024
#ArtAdventCalendar 22

#theater #kostüme #karneval #harlekin #pierrot #flamenco #blender #3d #makehuman #rendering #digital #3dRendering #costumes #carneval #harlequin #art #b3d

¿Conocen para #blender algo parecido a "poser" o #makehuman que sean como figurines fáciles de mover?
no quiero rigiar, no modelar ni nada de eso...

She's A Singer
Dezember 2019
Rendering und Montage

3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265

#singer #musik #gimp #fotobearbeitung #blender #3d #makehuman #rendering # #digital #3dRendering #PhotoEditing #art #b3d

Aura
November 2019
Fotobearbeitung mit Gimp und G'MIC und MakeHuman
#Fotobearbeitung -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/44306

#gmic #gimp #3d #makehuman #digital #photoediting #photo #foto #bildbearbeitung #photomanipulation #art

Hello World
erste #Animation mit #Blender 2018

#3dRendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265

#3d #makehuman #gif #animation #digital #rendering #b3d #art

OK, then, new GitHub repository, simulated-genetics, looking at the problem of generating thousands of character models for games, while ensuring that characters who are supposed to be related to one another have similar appearance.

This is very, very pre-alpha, but far enough along to be interesting.

#GameDev
#Clojure
#MakeHuman

https://github.com/simon-brooke/simulated-genetics

OK, then, new GitHub repository, simulated-genetics, looking at the problem of generating thousands of character models for games, while ensuring that characters who are supposed to be related to one another have similar appearance.

This is very, very pre-alpha, but far enough along to be interesting.

#GameDev
#Clojure
#MakeHuman

https://github.com/simon-brooke/simulated-genetics

Ended up doing some unplanned #3DSculpting in #Blender again. Testing out some more clothes this time.

(The model is generated by #MakeHuman) #b3d

Thank you #godotengine, #blender, #makehuman, #inkscape and #gimp developers for giving me what I need. And some dude named Linus I guess.

Thank you #godotengine, #blender, #makehuman, #inkscape and #gimp developers for giving me what I need. And some dude named Linus I guess.

Wirrnis
#Makehuman #Krita #Gmic
#illustration

Struggling with #Makehuman interface because I need to 3D-print a woman (for a mold).
As you do

But to download assets like clothes shuts down the program. Why?

* * *

Bråkar med #Makehuman för att jag behöver skriva ut en kvinna.
Som man gör

Men att ladda ner kläder stänger ner hela programmet. Varför?

Struggling with #Makehuman interface because I need to 3D-print a woman (for a mold).
As you do

But to download assets like clothes shuts down the program. Why?

* * *

Bråkar med #Makehuman för att jag behöver skriva ut en kvinna.
Som man gör

Men att ladda ner kläder stänger ner hela programmet. Varför?

I’m so happy I randomly saw someone mention makehuman about 5 years ago. It’s made my life so much easier #gamedev #makehuman #3dmodelling

I’m so happy I randomly saw someone mention makehuman about 5 years ago. It’s made my life so much easier #gamedev #makehuman #3dmodelling

Und als Follow-Up gibt es die Szene jetzt mit einem gerade aufgestandenen Jirakh.
Vorab aber noch das Charaktermodell. Die Formen sind Vorlagen, beim Haar musste ich aber die Texturen ändern. Und weil ich ein Noob bin, hat das gedauert.

Allen Leuten, die in Spielen im Charaktereditor mehr Zeit verbringen als beim eigentlichen Zocken, kann ich #MakeHuman jedenfalls nur empfehlen.

Jirakh bekommt evtl. noch eine etwas blaue Haut wegen der Fluchenergie, die in seinen Knochen sitzt.

Oh, wow, die Elemente der #MakeHuman-Modelle werden in #SweetHome3D vollständig übernommen. Es lässt sich alles bearbeiten.

Ich bin von #MakeHuman übrigens sehr begeistert, ABER es ist zu beachten, dass beim (User-)Download-Content sehr viel erstmal nicht funktioniert, weil teilweise Dateien falsch beschriftet oder Attribute in den config-Dateien falsch gesetzt sind.
Langsam bekomme ich den Bogen raus, hat aber heute den halben Tag gedauert.

Dafür kann man hier in Zusammenarbeit mit Blender Texturen und Content selbst designen und braucht nicht, wie bei anderen Programmen, alles kaufen. Und bekommt Individuelles.

Found the #aqsis renderer source. I think I was playing around with #makehuman (a #blender plugin project for generating 3D models of human bodies) and that's why I had that. Cool to see MakeHuman isn't abandonware.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/