Why I think race sliders aren't good for modeling

[jujube]

@1st post: I tried that at first; I used a vertex group to apply the male slider only to the body, and then made a 2nd target to move the head up. But MT doesn't see vertex groups, and also for some reason in MH, the neck was really long, equivalent to the amount I moved it up to get it out of the torso in MT. Then I created new shape from mix, to copy the effect w/o vertex groups, but MT doesn't save shapekeys that it didn't create. So then I used makeclothes to get a new human, so I could load target as mesh. And then I ran out of time. Away from my PC ATM.

Edit: oh, also, ManuelLab has a more complex skin shader, with multiple texture layers (including subsurface and specularity). Another user tried projecting it to the MH model.

[blindsaypatten]

@1st post: I tried that at first; I used a vertex group to apply the male slider only to the body, and then made a 2nd target to move the head up. But MT doesn't see vertex groups, and also for some reason in MH, the neck was really long, equivalent to the amount I moved it up to get it out of the torso in MT.

Now that I think of it, it should probably be a vertical scale relative to the ground rather than a translation. Probably with whatever x and y scaling factor is used in the height transform.

[jujube]

Back at my PC, and it works!!! Tested with max/min height:

The steps I took:

1) startup maketarget (mesh A)
2) load target from file
3) blend shapekey based on vertex group
4) copy the model (mesh B)
5) on copied model, create new shapekey from mix
6) get rid of the original shapekey
7) summon a third mesh, via makeclothes (mesh C)
8) set it as base
9) load target from mesh, B --> C
10) save target


When I'd rather the workflow look more like:
1) startup maketarget
2) load target from file
3) blend shapekey based on vertex group
4) save target

(all the steps in between, where I work with three meshes instead of two, is because when you load target from mesh, the mesh you loaded from vanishes; but I want to keep the original to modify, in case it doesn't look good when I test it in MH. So just being able to load target from mesh without destroying said mesh would cut down on the number of steps required. )

[blindsaypatten]

Back at my PC, and it works!!!

I know I really need to learn to do that myself, but, could you pretty please feed my need for immediate gratification and share the resulting target so I can play while I claw my way up the learning curve?

[jujube]

Back at my PC, and it works!!!

I know I really need to learn to do that myself, but, could you pretty please feed my need for immediate gratification and share the resulting target so I can play while I claw my way up the learning curve?

I already posted it to the repo! My other targets are there too, in user contributed assets --> assets by author.
(The target I uploaded yesterday is a better version than the one I posted a pic of; that one started with the caucasian male and reverted the head back to default, while this one works out of the box. Apply it to the startup morph and it changes only the body to male. )
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/targe ... _body.html

I'll let you have my blend file to play with, too.