Hello, we are trying to use Makehuman in some research into body representation and I have a few questions which I could not find the answer to in the documentation or searching the forum, but many apologies if I have missed it as I may be using the wrong search terms. I am a complete beginner so sorry for silly questions.
First, I have written a python script that changes various body part measurements systematically according to values I import in from a .csv file, and saves .png files for each body. I can see a list of potential parameters I can change by calling MHScript.getModelingParameters(). But is there some documentation telling me which are independent and which are dependent, i.e. their hierarchical structure? I gather the ones labelled macrodetails are obviously changing many of the lower-order parameters, but do the ones beginning with 'measure' (e.g. 'measure/measure-thigh-circ-decr|incr') alter other body parts too or are they relatively independent? I am aiming to systematically vary a number of basic measurements (e.g. leg length, hip circumference, waist circumference) as independently as possible but unsure which parameters to use, out of the full list.
My other question regards the scale/ range of measurements. First, for each modeling parameter, is there a document telling me which range of values it accepts, e.g. 0 to 1 or -1 to 1? Second, what determines the two end-points (what the the extremes based on), and what is the midpoint (i.e. for a 0-1 scale, what does 0.5 reflect)? I am guessing if I set a value to 0.5 on a 0-1 scale, there should be no change of the model that I have loaded? Or does it adjust it to some pre-defined 'average' value? What decides how 'extreme' the ends of the scales are? I assume it was based originally on some population sample of body measurements, but it would be great to know if the extreme ends of possibilities of the 'measure' parameters reflect e.g. +-4 standard deviations from the mean of whatever sample was used, for example.
I hope my questions are clear and any help would be greatly appreciated.