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make human About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. make human // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by rjeff // Mar 25, 2008, 3:00pm rjeff Total Posts: 1260 ok this may have been coverd before..but can you rig up a mh figure in ts to animate it? Post by Burnart // Mar 25, 2008, 5:23pm Burnart Total Posts: 839 As long as you can get it into tS there is no reason you couldn't put bones etc into it. How well it works is another matter! Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 25, 2008, 5:34pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 Wizard (Stephen May) uses Make Human as the starting point for many of his characters and you can see one of his animations here: http://www.caligari.com/Gallery/animations/2008/feb/default.asp?Cate=GAnimations Post by W!ZARD // Mar 26, 2008, 3:01am W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 I've used Makehuman meshes as starting points and remodeled them in tS. I've also rigged a few of them and made static poses (as opposed to animations) using the old bones in tS 6.6. I've not used Makehuman meshes for a while now but I'm quite confident that tS's new bones will work fine with them. The animation Jack linked to does not use Makehuman meshes. It uses low poly models which are then rigged and finally subdivided. This technique works really well. Unless you need a really realistic human figure it may be easier to model a low poly character than it would be to rig a high density Makehuman mesh. Where you may have difficulties rigging MH meshes with tS bones is getting the vertex assignments right so that elbows and knees etc. bend correctly. There's a lot of vertices in a MH mesh and assigning them all to the right bones with the right weights would be a fairly tedious job even with tS's new bone tools. Provided you have patience I can't see why it wouldn't work though. HTH and let us know how you get on. Post by Steinie // Mar 26, 2008, 3:46am Steinie Total Posts: 3667 http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showpost.php?p=57745&postcount=15 I was just playing around with this one. If I had spent more time with it the joints would have bent more realistically. I wasn't after realism....;) Post by rstralberg // Mar 26, 2008, 3:49am rstralberg Total Posts: 26 Hi As a little note, I used MakeHuman to produce the man which I then rigged with MrBones-walk animation (not more the 10 minutes job) The result is here HERE (http://www.rstralberg.com/ts/g2.avi). Not perfect but is show that using MH is not to bad at all. But as I'm no artist I cant judge if its good enough. But if I could make that in 10 minutes, a real artist probably won't have any difficults getting it good. Cheers. Roland Post by rjeff // Mar 26, 2008, 4:15am rjeff Total Posts: 1260 thanks for all the help guys...I will tinker with it.

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