How do you create a new rig preset?

[NearEDGE]

Not sure exactly how simple this is, but I want to make a new rig preset to match the default iPi Motion Studio rig so that animations transfer between the two properly without having to edit anything to do with the transfer itself.

[joepal]

There is in theory support for this in makehuman-utils (see https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehuman-utils) as a plugin for blender for exporting mhskel files.

Documentation is crude to non-existent (largely code comments in the plugin source code), and after having made an export you still need to hand-edit the resulting file to manually fix up things that aren't added automatically. Failure to do so causes an incomprehensible crash in MH if you try to use the rig.

But the required steps are:

* Install io_mhrigging_mhskel in blender
* Create an armature
* Parent it to the base mesh (as loaded from for example maketarget)
* Optionally do weight painting
* File->export->mhskel
* Open the mhskel file in a text editor
* Manually fix the null values

[badwolf]

are the null values something that can be loaded as a template type thing or does it take some math to sort out?? ( just stabbing at getting docs somewhat written)

[joepal]

are the null values something that can be loaded as a template type thing or does it take some math to sort out?? ( just stabbing at getting docs somewhat written)

I'd answer if I had ever understood the explanations. If you look through the various discussions on the topics, you'll see that you're supposed to define roll planes. How that is done in practice is something I have yet to grasp.

[gaiha]

Heyas!

Rigging is a form of art... it is tedious and time consuming... I have done rigging in the past and no longer do it, but if you are doing a custom rig that you plan on reusing, and using again until the end of eternity, it is well worth the investment of your time. Adding a rig to a skinned model in blender is easily accomplished, and there are tutorials for this that are just a click away, using the google machine.

As far as creating a rig preset, I am assuming you mean a rig you can apply to a MakeHuman model prior to export... (Edited) The only problem with making a rig preset within MakeHuman is that there are so many different animation editors and 3D studio suites out there, that to create one for each of the formats would be a monumental task for the MakeHuman Dev Team, and the file format support would make it insane.

When you have completed your rig... if you wish to submit it as a User-Contribution... it could be an asset that other's may want to use as well.

Good Luck...

[joepal]

As far as creating a rig preset, I am assuming you mean a rig you can apply to a MakeHuman model prior to export... once again, there are tutorials just a click away, using the google machine.

That's great news! Someone wrote a bunch of tutorials on how to use io_mhrigging_mhskel while I looked the other way?

I must be doing something wrong though, since I don't find a single one when looking on google...

[gaiha]

That's great new! Someone wrote a bunch of tutorials on how to use io_mhrigging_mhskel while I looked the other way?
I must be doing something wrong though, since I don't find a single one when looking on google...

Giggles... stop peeking... lolz

[Aranuvir]

That's great news! Someone wrote a bunch of tutorials on how to use io_mhrigging_mhskel while I looked the other way?
I must be doing something wrong though, since I don't find a single one when looking on google...

So do I. Perhaps we're sitting in the same google bubble? It would be great, if gaiha could point us to a tutorial how to create a mhskel-file. Don't forget to immediately link it to the wiki page!

[duststorm]

I think the closest you'll find is my explanation on this forum.

[badwolf]

lemme see if i can paw into the data pile on this from RTFS (which does not actually define [redacted]) and looking at the rigs themselves

after you run the script each and every joint needs to have something called a rotation plane defined (this tells you which way is Down/Left/In)

the exact format of this info seems to be TOP SECRET BURN BEFORE READING (and the comments in the source do not match what is in the rig files)


can you link back to your previous posting on the needed format??

the big issue is it seems to be very much something that has to be done by hand