Help creating pose with Blender

[Tom_JF]

Hi
I am trying to define a engineer for a model locomotive sitting on a chair with hands on the steering wheel.
I the Makehuman database I could not find a pose that really fit.
I know that I could design a pose that fits with Blender. Unfortunately I cannot install Blender on my old PC (I tried to install it on various occasions, not just this time).
Is it complicated to adapt a pose to the following pics:

If its not too complicated could someone help me out with a design that fits:
- Sitting on the chair
- hand on the wheel
- feet on the pedal
- that I could print and plcae in a 1:45 model

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I would be most grateful if someone could help me.
Best regards
Thomas

[Tom_JF]

no help avaiable

[mullinear]

I don’t know if this will help you. I offer it just in case.

I’ve been generating poses using a python utility program that I wrote which reads an existing .bvh file, applies changes, and writes a new .bvh file that I can then try out in Makehuman. Wehen I run it I supply a file of directives that either set the positions or rotations of various joints in the pose, or modify them from their settings in the original .bvh

For the pose you want, I might start with the default pose and directives would include things like

upperleg01.L.Yrotation 7 - # less leg separation
upperleg01.R.Yrotation 7 +
upperleg01.L.Xrotation 90 - # upper legs to sitting position
upperleg01.R.Xrotation 90 -
lowerleg01.L.Xrotation 90 + # lower legs back to vertical
lowerleg01.R.Xrotation 90 +

upperarm01.L.Yrotation 7 - # arms closer to body
upperarm01.R.Yrotation 7 +
lowerarm01.L.Xrotation 90 - # lower arms parallel to desk
lowerarm01.R.Xrotation 90 -

and so on. (I haven’t tested these exact values.)

When I do this, I have a text editor open to make changes to the parameters, a terminal window open where I run the program, which I set to write to a file with a name like ‘new-pose.bvh’, and a Makehuman window where I can switch a model to the new pose to check it out. Development can be fairly quick.

I was going to offer this program for discussion some time ago, but developements in MPFB made it look like this program would be redundant. But if you ccan’t run blender or MPFB ...

[Tom_JF]

Ahh, thank you.
That I am gonna try. Especially because compared to the pose I aleady have, there is only liddle I have to change.
Thank you and best regards
Thomas

[tomcat]

I’ve been generating poses using a python utility program that I wrote which reads an existing .bvh file, applies changes, and writes a new .bvh file that I can then try out in Makehuman. Wehen I run it I supply a file of directives that either set the positions or rotations of various joints in the pose, or modify them from their settings in the original .bvh

Can I ask you to share this wonderful utility?

[mullinear]

Can I ask you to share this wonderful utility?

Well, you can ask ... Seriously, yes, I'll be delighted. I'll go now dig a clean copy out of my programmer's heap of files, zip it up with some user instructions, and learn to upload files.

Would Custom Content in Assets be a good place?

[tomcat]

Would Custom Content in Assets be a good place?

I'm not sure, but it's probably possible.

I'm looking for a way to create poses easily, without MakeHuman and Blender. Ideally in a game engine. And want to consider different options.

[mullinear]

OK. I've uploaded update_bvh.20250510.zip to Assets, Custom content . I hope that's a compatible format, and I hope the program works for you.
Let me know.
Cheers.

[tomcat]

OK. I've uploaded update_bvh.20250510.zip to Assets, Custom content . I hope that's a compatible format, and I hope the program works for you.
Let me know.
Cheers.

Thank you very much! It turns out python needs to be installed. I'll give this to the programmer who works with me, maybe we can use it.