From MH to Blender then to Opensim, deformed

[nicoisobel]

Hello all !
I'm new here, but I love makehuman already ! I've made a few avatars for friends and after a bit of tweaking and bones repositioning they all work perfectly and my friends love them.
But then, I tried making a kid avatar... It looks great when I rezz it and add the skin, but when I wear it it's deformed... Like it's been stretched along the X axis (it's facing X+). Also, it's as tall as an adult avi (although in Blender it's half the size of an adult avatar and when I rezz it it's the right size).
Is there a way to correct that ? I tried moving pretty much all the bones in pretty much all the positions, but it's still stretched and too tall...
It's not really important since it's just for fun and I'm sure I won't even use it much (if at all), but I hate it when things don't work the way I want them to

On a side note, does anyone know where to find bodyhair for download ? (chest hair mostly)

Thank you for any help you can provide !

[RobBaer]

Hello all !
... But then, I tried making a kid avatar... It looks great when I rezz it and add the skin, but when I wear it it's deformed... Like it's been stretched along the X axis (it's facing X+). Also, it's as tall as an adult avi (although in Blender it's half the size of an adult avatar and when I rezz it it's the right size).

Is there a way to correct that ? I tried moving pretty much all the bones in pretty much all the positions, but it's still stretched and too tall...

Don't understand what 'rezz' means. Explain? What program is involved?

On a side note, does anyone know where to find body hair for download ? (chest hair mostly)

Thank you for any help you can provide !

The body extension stuff is here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/bodyparts.html Unfortunately, I don't think there is currently chest hair, but if you make some please submit back..

[jujube]

In blender, it's pretty easy to create body hair by using weight paint mode to draw on the desired location on the body, and then set the hair density to be controlled by the new vertex group.

[loki1950]

Yes that will work quite well in blender be the OP wants it in Opensim which IIRC does not support particle hair.

Enjoy the Choice

[blindsaypatten]

Yes that will work quite well in blender be the OP wants it in Opensim which IIRC does not support particle hair.

But particle hair can be converted into a mesh, or rendered and added to a texture image...

[DredNicolson]

I suspect the problem is in Opensim, not in MH or Blender. That it's taking the child-size asset and trying to fit it to an adult size avatar framework.

[nicoisobel]

Hello all !
... But then, I tried making a kid avatar... It looks great when I rezz it and add the skin, but when I wear it it's deformed... Like it's been stretched along the X axis (it's facing X+). Also, it's as tall as an adult avi (although in Blender it's half the size of an adult avatar and when I rezz it it's the right size).

Is there a way to correct that ? I tried moving pretty much all the bones in pretty much all the positions, but it's still stretched and too tall...

Don't understand what 'rezz' means. Explain? What program is involved?

On a side note, does anyone know where to find body hair for download ? (chest hair mostly)

Thank you for any help you can provide !

The body extension stuff is here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/bodyparts.html Unfortunately, I don't think there is currently chest hair, but if you make some please submit back..

First of all, thank you everyone for your answers !

Now, "rezz"ing is when, in SL or Opensim (I use Firestorm viewer) I put the body down on the ground as an object instead of wearing it. When I do that it looks perfect (perfect size, perfect render). But when I wear it it's stretched. Like DredNicolson said it's most likely that SL/Opensim tries to make it the size of an adult avatar. But since there are other kid avatars around I would like to know what's the trick to keep the right size...

As for the body hair, I'll try what blindsaypatten suggested and if it works I'll make a patch of hair that I'll put in the contributions section here.

Thanks again everyone !

[blindsaypatten]

If you can't find a stretch/no stretch option you might try a quick experiment to see if including something in the model at adult height would prevent the stretching, say a single vertex or very small polygon. Not a real solution but could be a quick workaround. If there is a forum that deals with SL avatars it might be more effective asking there since that seems to be where the problem is.