Hello,
Makehuman has been created to design avatar simply and in an accessible way in order that anyone can use it.
However, this accessibility disappear for users from Opensimulator and Second Life. Indeed, only expert users familiar with modelling or users who have money to spend in a third party software can use it because of the difficulty of the export. And that for an avatar with a skeleton not really satisfactory.
It is a shame because it could be an important part of your users. Nowadays more than 45,000 accounts are connected simultaneously in Second Life and Opensimulator had more than 100,000 users.
It is also this majority who could, for example, to pay for help Makehuman to grow.
As a student in an engineering school, I am doing an internship in a French non-profit organization specialized in digital and 3D research.
For example, Meza is creating a web application that allows simple users to manage an opensimulator without messing with .ini files and using command lines. This application will also be encapsulated in a package with a Win, Linux and Mac os compatible python launcher so that everyone can see their own opensimulator server on their computer.
As soon as a package is functional, Meza will launch a call for participatory financing.
Ultimately, Meza also plans to integrate Makehuman directly into the Second Life / Opensim compatible 3D viewer / client or to build a bridge between the two tools allowing inworld to create and/or adapt avatars.
Meza is also working on a whole Terra FrancoPhonia concept with one part on SL and another on Opensimulator. For this program, participants already French and paying taxes will be encouraged to use a system of Donation with financial part and part in competences. It is a way to attract people to remake their SL avatars on Opensimulator because currently you can't export creations from other people, so you have to remake everything. Make Human would therefore be most adapted because it would allow users to easily remake an avatar close to the old one.
Considering all this, would you be interested in collaborating?
I know python well and would like to help in a first time to simplify export by making Makehuman avatars compatible so they can be imported directly into Sl / Opensim.
To get there I would need information about what you know about it that would allow me to correct this problem.
Do not hesitate to mp me for more information.
Sincerely,