by joepal » Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:33 pm
Possible yes, feasible... well, depends on how much work one is prepared to put into it.
Makehuman characters are perfectly possible to use in, for example, babylonjs. So there's nothing in principle stopping a web browser implementation.
However the work required to port the entire MH application, or portions thereof, to javascript is quite extensive.
For the frontend, you'd have to implement the entire 3d engine in WebGL or some wrapper for it. Getting everything from mesh rendering to shaders in place is something which is pretty advanced.
For backend I don't think anything particularly complicated would be needed. But you'd still want a backend in order to save models etc.
But it's not a particularly odd idea. If we had started from scratch with MH today, chances is we would have looked at web first.