My first hint:

The "HumanIK" skeleton can be mapped using the HumanIK setting in 3DXchange.

Yes, that works well.

It's funny though that the provided HumanIK T-pose does not work correctly: the figure gets all twisted.

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I was going to play with this last night , ended up arguing instead...

How far have you got with the facial bones .?



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I have found using the "basic.json" rig with 73 bones (including jaw bone) gives me a better result than the "humanik.json", especially if you want to use the facial puppeteering panel in iClone.

Even though you have to map the bones individually, it moves right along & funtions well once imported into iClone.

I did find that if you don't want the character to go "wonky" in iClone, you must manually adjust the characters T-pose in 3dXchange first (unclick the "active" box in the bone mapping panel, adjust the bones to reflect a true T-pose, then click the "active" box, then convert) to accurately reflect the iClone T-pose, then you don't get the "twisted wonkiness" when brought into iClone.

You can also take an extra step & import the Make Human fbx into 3dsmax and replace the rig with the G5 rig, then you can export directly as a G5 avatar instead of non-standard human (but it seems to be easier to just create the character in 3ds max altogether if you have that SW & are familiar with the process & want G5 versus non-standard).

You can use the "Make Target" to bring .obj items made in zbrush, mudbox, blender, etc., into Make Human.... just make sure you have previous aligned them to the proper axis.  

This is just what I have found that works - it may not be optimum for everyone, but seems to work the best for me....  If any of y'all have found better methodologies, please share!  Knowledge is always a beautiful thing!

Have a super day, everyone

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It seems that the in-built weighting of the mesh does not lend itself well to a male t-pose. The topology shift when the Male/Female slider is used causes enough change that the armpits need re-weighting.

This seems to hold true for either the high-resolution mesh, or one of the topologies.

Here's my "Fire Fairy" that I'll be releasing soon. Just finishing up some visemes.

How are you re doing your weights ? And have you usd the new facial rig with this character.

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For females, I find I don't need to re-weight anything. I have not tried to fix a male weighting yet, as it's not something I really want to deal with.

I am using the new face rig. It's alpha, so it's a bit wonky. It also feels "different-to-be-different". For instance, the eyebrow bones are connected sequentially from the outside in. The jaw and chin don't have a common parent just to themselves, so opening the mouth is a two bone rotation affair (and the bones are crooked to another, for added joy! )

I'm developing a work flow with make human, carrara and poser as we speak.

my hint contribution to the thread - do the rigging step, then open the jaw just a little bit, when you convert - it will save the jaw in that pose, export the obj with the open jaw to make your own viseme face morphs.

rampa, your character reminds me of a race in gw2, the sylvari - if you ever need inspiration for new character ideas, google images: guildwars2 - really cool stuff, and they have so much armor and diversity, it's mind boggling! - some of the best artists in the biz

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Exporting your model to Blender via MHX is quite useful. My fire fairy is a dual-layer avatar. It makes the face count of the body double, but it allows for way more than using the "Blend" channel. In fact, you get all the channels, so you get "decals" with normals, opacities, etc. And the blend too if you want.

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What do you mean by duel layered ?



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