Documentation:Index

These are documentation fragments which have been ported. They may still miss some images

Introduction

• What is MakeHuman?: A quick introduction to MakeHuman.
• MakeHuman™ and its Purpose : MakeHuman definition and vision.
• 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
• Configuration and settings
• The interface and its basic functions
• The toolbar
• The tabs
• The sliders
• Load, save and export
• 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

Getting help and resources from the community

• Asking for help
• Reporting a bug
• Finding more assets

Creating new assets

• Getting and installing BlenderTools
• Targets
• Clothes

MakeHuman for developers

• Plugin System
• OpenGL Notes
• 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

Tutorials

• Texture painting a skin in blender

Other / unsorted

• MakeWalk
• Translation

Old documentation

The old documentation is available, but in a largely unformatted state:

Documentation:Big dump from drupal

(most of this should now have been ported to separate pages as per above)

Blender tools

MHBlenderTools: Download and installation : How to download and install the addons for Blender MHBlenderTools: MakeTarget : Description of the MakeTarget™ tool, to create custom morphings for MakeHuman. MHBlenderTools: MakeClothes : Description of the MakeClothes™ tool, to create custom clothes for MakeHuman.

Documentation for developers

Technical notes on MakeHuman

Tutorials

Tutorial: Texture painting a skin in blender

Unported stuff from Drupal

This is stuff which haven't been ported yet.

Documentation:Big dump from drupal

General overview

Install MakeHuman™ : How to install MH on Windows, Osx and Linux. The Interface and basic functions. : The MakeHuman GUI: Load, save, undo and redo, reset, view, symmetry, help. Zoom, pan and rotate using the orbital camera : Navigating the scene using the orbital camera. Load Save and Export : Describe file actions for MakeHuman

Define Human Characteristics

Parametric Modelling : A quick introduction to the parametric modelling and sliders usage. Using MakeHuman Hairstyles and Clothes : Hair in the MakeHuman Geometries group Skin and other materials : How to change skin and materials for hair and clothes. Gender, Random, Measure and Custom : Special modifiers. Makehuman alternative topologies : MakeHuman provides a smart alternative topologies library

Rendering Your Work

Quick rendering and advanced rendering : This section explains how render the character in MakeHuman Scene and Viewer : How to set lights and how to see and save the rendering

Settings

General : How to set the general preferences Background : How to use backgrounds for reference. Mouse : Explanation of mouse settings Shortcuts : Configuration of shortcuts in Makehuman Plugins : Management of Makehuman plugins

Tools and contributing methods

MHBlenderTools: MakeWalk : MakeWalk™ is a Blender add-on for retargeting mocap data (.bvh files) to a given armature. MHBlenderTools: MakeWalk GUI : An introduction to MakeWalk™ and its user interface. MHBlenderTools: MakeWalk Armatures : An introduction to MakeWalk™ and the use of armatures. Explaining the meaning and use of source and target armature. MHBlenderTools: MakeWalk Utilities : An introduction to the MakeWalk™ utilities panel: save and restore the defaults, manage actions, t-pose, etc. MHBlenderTools: MakeWalk Retarget : An introduction to MakeWalk™ target rigging. This document will describe common errors and corrective actions. MHBlenderTools: MHX importer basic usage. : MHX (MakeHuman eXchange format) is a custom format used to transfer a rigged character from MakeHuman to Blender. MHBlenderTools: MHX default rigging : If pose/animate > skeleton is set to 'None' when the character is exported from MakeHuman in .mhx format, the character is equipped with the default MHX armature. This is a rather complex rig with quite a few features. MHBlenderTools: MHX other rigging systems : The character can be rigged with alternatives and ligher armature or the rigify one (The rigging system for Blender developed by Nathan Vegdahl). MHBlenderTools: MHX Layers and masks : The mhx importer creates objects on the first four layers. MakeTarget standalone : Converting files produced with the most common modelling software, without Blender. GUI languages and translations. : MakeHuman support a variety of languages. It's very easy to add translations.

Reporting a Bug

Using the Makehuman bug tracker : Introduction to the new Makehuman bug tracker Using the Makehuman log files for error reporting : How to report bugs using the log files.

Developers' note

Getting started : The best way to start your experiments with MakeHuman code is to clone our official repository and start to modify it. Development infrastructure : A description of the MakeHuman development infrastructure. OpenGL Notes : Most of the 3D mesh handling functionality is delivered using OpenGL embedded within the C application code. Development organization : The organization of distributed development. Libraries and build procedures : Describes the details of creating installable packages on major platforms Directory structure and core modules : Summary of the MH API reference. File formats and extensions : Describes the formats used internally for data and object storage. [CRUDE NOTES] Makehuman Plugin System : How to make a new plugin and use it in MakeHuman

Packager's notes

Packaging RPM's for Suse/Fedora using Open Build Service (OBS) : Packaging procedure and setup.

Tutorials

MakeClothes: Making a simple dress : The basic MakeClothes workflow. MakeClothes: Controlling the result with vertex groups : The output of the clothes-making process depends on how vertex groups are assigned. Creating a Custom Target with MakeTarget Standalone : A practical example of custom target MakeWalk: The making of Running feet : MakeWalk tutorial, focusing on the Edit Action panel. MakeWalk: Running feet scene 1 : Making an extended run on a plane. MakeWalk: Running feet scene 2 : High heels and slopes. MakeWalk: Running feet scene 3 : The race. MakeWalk: Running feet scene 4 : Rough terrain. MakeWalk: Automatic animation : Tutorial on using the editing tools in MakeWalk.