Documentation:Index

Introduction

• What is MakeHuman?: A quick introduction to MakeHuman.
• Short and Long Pipeline : The goal of Makehuman is to see it used in 2 different professional pipelines.
• Professional mesh topology : An overview of the professional topology provided by MakeHuman
• Legal : The various licenses that apply to MakeHuman and External tools

General overview

• Installing MakeHuman
• Running MakeHuman from source
• Configuration and settings
• The interface and its basic functions
• The toolbar
• The tabs
• The sliders
• Loading and saving
• Zoom, pan and rotate using the orbital camera

Working with the human

• Gender, Random, Measure and Custom
• Hairstyles and Clothes
• Modeling the body
• Alternative topologies
• Skin and other materials
• Rendering your work

Exporting your work to another application

• Exports and file formats
• Saving models for Blender and how to import them there
• Saving models for Maya and how to import them there
• Saving models for 3ds MAX and how to import them there
• Saving models for Unreal Engine and how to import them there / MH4UE
• Saving models for Unity and how to import them there
• Saving models for OpenSim / Second Life and how to import them there

Working with MakeHuman models in Blender

• Corrective shape keys
• MakeShapes a tool for adding more MH shapes in blender

Downloading or creating new assets

• What is an asset?
• Finding and downloading more assets
• Getting and installing BlenderTools
• Targets
• Clothes
• Materials (Materials for clothes and other assets)
• Texture painting a skin in blender

MakeWalk: General Background

• MakeWalk

MakeWalk: In Depth Tutorials

• Running feet
• Automatic animation

Interacting with the community

• Asking for help
• Reporting a bug

MakeHuman for developers

• Plugin System
• OpenGL Notes
• Basemesh and standard skeleton
• Directory structure and core modules
• File formats and extensions
• Libraries and build procedures
• Development infrastructure
• Application design and Code overview
• Getting started with MakeHuman code
• Technical notes on MakeHuman

Other / unsorted

• Translation
• Installing MHX2

Meta

• Documentation:Planning on how to restructure the documentation

Old documentation

• Previous versions of documentation are still available.