How to get CSVs of different body parts?

[ranveeraggarwal]

Hello all,

I am a newbie to makehuman and I started using the meshes a couple of hours ago.
What I needed for my project are CSVs of meshes of individual body parts, which I am unable to find how to procure. What's the way to do so?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[badwolf]

Im not sure its possible to convert parts of the mesh into a CSV type format using any kind of script


but an OBJ is basically a text format (a spiral wrap of the various verts and some header info)

[joepal]

I agree with wolfie that making a starting with an obj file is probably easier than digging into MH.

The first few lines of the base mesh looks like this:

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v -0.3492 7.3299 1.4076
v -0.3110 7.3315 1.4107
v -0.3481 7.3465 1.4062
v -0.3095 7.3456 1.4117
v -0.3487 7.3574 1.4039
v -0.3080 7.3566 1.4103
v -0.3835 7.3242 1.4009
v -0.3849 7.3413 1.3972
v -0.3886 7.3508 1.3930
v -0.4099 7.3169 1.3895

... basically vertex definitions with coordinates. This should be trivial to pipe through a script to transform it into another equally primitive format.

[ranveeraggarwal]

Yeah, I can do this, but how do I know which parts of an obj correspond to which body part? is there a way of knowing so?

[joepal]

Now that's quite a different question.

I guess you could find the targets (.target files) which affect the interesting part of the body and read the vertex numbers from them. They're also just plain lists of vertices along with how much the point should move in XYZ space.

For example right-ear-big.target (or whatever it is named) will contain a list of vertex points for the right ear.

[ranveeraggarwal]

How do I get the target files though?
(I am a newbie to makehuman, so I am not so used to the terminology)

[joepal]

Follow this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCHGX-6Mtk

Once you've done so, you will have all targets in makehuman/data/targets