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Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby hh_is_op » Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:06 pm

I installed
makehuman-community-20210613-nightly-windows.zip
version and when I extracted it to a folder it. and I could find the way to start makehuman. unless I did something bad how can I fix this?

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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby Elvaerwyn » Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:30 pm

Greetings,
Sorry to hear you are having troubles, but real quick to rule it out did you hit the windows key and type makehuman into the search? A lot of time I have seen it silently install an exe, backend. When you right click the makehuman that shows up in search bar and select open file location it still only brings you to a shortcut....
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby hh_is_op » Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:49 pm

but that's weird because the shortcut kept bringing me to python .exe.
and I think I've accidentally downloaded multiple instances and I'm worried if I delete one I would lose my progress and files. how would I differentiate the files? and is the .exe hidden?
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby Elvaerwyn » Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:09 pm

Greetings
The makehuman exe should be found in the makehuman file under pythonw.exe. I have no idea why they decided to name it this way but that is where it is located. You can put a shortcut on desktop and name it anything you see fit, and the program should load just fine!
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby hh_is_op » Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:18 pm

Elvaerwyn wrote:Greetings
The makehuman exe should be found in the makehuman file under pythonw.exe.

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um where? iM SO CONFUSED. I found a taskbar makehuman that leads me here, but it magically works despite not having an .exe to work off of (it says the highlighted pythonw.exe is the Target .exe)
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby Elvaerwyn » Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:39 pm

I am sorry if I did not explain properly! The exe does loop back to the python exe. The makehuman does install the executable to the start menu now by default. when you click the start menu icon and choose open file location it takes you in windows to your C drive program data folder and start menu icons. This when clicked to open folder location does in fact loop back to the python at present unfortunately for those of us who prefer the hard exe file in the makehuman directory :( But this is in fact working as intended.
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby hh_is_op » Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:51 pm

well simpltons like me are too foolish to do this. I do thank you good sir, I guess having 2 instances of makhuman is dumb
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby loki1950 » Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:02 am

The installer also put an entry into the "START" menu for makehuman that's the latest Windows version.

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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby joepal » Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:36 am

Unlike the previous version (1.1.1), there isn't any executable called "makehuman.exe" in 1.2.0. The installer is a thin wrapper around python and the makehuman python source. So what the installer essentially does is install python and then extract the makehuman python files.

As elv says, you should be able to find a shortcut on the start menu for launching python with the main makehuman python file as argument. There should also be a shortcut on the desktop.

In 1.1.1 you could open the folder you installed in and double-click something, but that is cumbersome with 1.2.0 unless you have also set up a system-wide python.
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Re: Just installed Makehuman and I didnt get the .EXE file

Postby hh_is_op » Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:58 pm

thanks, mods, for the more detailed answers
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