VScorpion videos gone

[jjones]

I'm sad to see that VScorpion has deleted her makeclothes videos. Now where will I turn for expert info? sigh...

[joepal]

It's a pity. They might be dated, but they were very educational.

I've been considering making an updated introductory video for the modern MakeClothes version, but that won't replace all the videos from VScorpion.

[jjones]

I'm sad to see that VScorpion has deleted her makeclothes videos. Now where will I turn for expert info? sigh...

did anyone by chance download any of them and save them somewhere?

I'm having a hard time finding tutorials. I'm admittedly terribly late to the game, but I want to figure out how to create/load a character in Blender and transfer it into makehuman as a target or proxy or something like this. I'm still trying to sort out the terminology.

Basically I want to take a character, e.g., one I downloaded from Sketchup warehouse, load it up in Blender and then somehow transfer it to Makehuman to become a character that can be posed with a skeleton, etc. So far, in my stumbling around, I have the idea that I need to use Blender to turn the mesh into a "proxy" which I can then use in Makehuman.

I appreciate any and all clues and hints and whatnot

Thank you
-j_jones

[punkduck]

Hi

As long as your character kinda fits to a human that would work. What not really works, is that you add stuff like tail or wings, which can be moved. There are simply the bones missing. Yes I did a test even for that. But it was a hack and it was years ago. The new version will be more flexible, and one could do that, but who will create all the targets?

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16927

So anyway, for a proxy simply use MakeClothes, Assign your new character as clothes, the standard one as Human. Be careful with vertex groups, I would propose to do one for each leg, arm, body and head.
The .mhclo file must be renamed to .proxy and put into the correct folder.

There are limits: Makeclothes (and makehuman internally) use an approximation algorithm based on barycentric coordinates, so 3 vertices near the vertex you want to create. Classically that means that too much distance to the original character will fail, but also when you use a lot of geometry where only a few vertices are around or the other way round. Sometimes it looks fine on the standard until you move the first slider in makehuman or pose the character.

Greetings
Punkduck

[jjones]

Thank you! You've given me lots to think about.