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
• Saving models for Unity and how to import them there
• Saving models for OpenSim / Second Life and how to import them there

Downloading or creating new assets

• What is an asset?
• Finding and downloading more assets
• Getting and installing BlenderTools
• Targets
• Clothes
• Texture painting a skin in blender

In-depth tutorials: MakeClothes

• Making a simple dress
• Making diapers for a baby
• Controlling the result with vertex groups

In-depth tutorials: MakeWalk

• Running feet
• Automatic animation

Interacting with the community

• Asking for help
• Reporting a bug

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
• Technical notes on MakeHuman

Other / unsorted

• MakeWalk
• Translation
• Installing MHX2

Meta

• Documentation:Planning on how to restructure the documentation

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)

The following have been merged in other pages, but they are left here if something got lost in the translation:

• 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.