Blender as External rendering

[abraess]

Hallo,
my Question is why has Makehuman no Button for External rendering with Blender? I thing Povray was good for many years but would not more update. All person I know now use the Blender.
Andrew Braess

[Nadow]

Hallo!

If you want to use blender to render your images you have to export it into an obj file.

Workflow:

1) Start MakeHuman as normal.
2) Create your human character as normal.
3) If finished press the e key. (MakeHuman now export the mesh, uv, material and behavior in three files (export.obj, export.mtl, export.bhv. LOCATION! the base directory of makehman (where the EXE or binary is located))
4) Close MakeHuman and start Blender.
5) Import the object file (export.obj) File-->Import-->Wavefront object
6) Add textures to meterial. .....
7) F12=Render

Finish!

[abraess]

Hallo!

If you want to use blender to render your images you have to export it into an obj file.

Hallo Nadow,
I know how get it in to Blender. But if I understand right, you need not export
when you the other rendering Programs. I cam make me easy now use Povray again. But for me look like the Povray no Future.
Thank you
Andrew Braess

[Manuel]

Hallo,
my Question is why has Makehuman no Button for External rendering with Blender? I thing Povray was good for many years but would not more update. All person I know now use the Blender.
Andrew Braess

Hi!
Well, as first thing, we support Aqsis and Pixie also
About Blender, yes we like to use it as rendering engine too.
But there is a problem: Blender has not a file format!!! It's just a memory dump. It's a very bad thing for a so famous software, but it's impossible to write a blend file from an external application. So this procedure is impossible at the moment:

- export a blend file
- call Blender from command line to render it

Sorry...

Manuel