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Hey Bob,

I don't know if this helps. I use make human a bit which is similar to what you are doing for this script for Anim8or.  If you take the generic mesh of one extreme and export it to your ASL exporter.  Then run the other extreme through the same way, you would have your 0 to 100%  Thin to Fat.  I don't know if that is a good short cut or not since I don't know much about the ASL exporter you spoke of and I have no idea on the script language.

Make Human can export to OBJ and I don't believe it has a low poly setting.  I currently use version 0.9.1 RC1 because the newer version was missing features I liked.

Wendy

Great job Bob, you have a lot of time on your hands to make a script like that. 

WB

Every time I try. I can import the armature from BVH to blender no problem. But when I parent the mesh to the armature they look like pretzel people.    Someone on a Blender forum informed me that the BVH import script was made almost 10 years ago and then never updated.  Blender has IK but I never scratched the surface on how to use it proper.  I know some basics like bones and bone groups.  I opened a BVH in word and the AN8 in word they look a lot like each other using braces for grouping, that's why I asked.

Thanks for the kind words,

WB

  Sorry for bumping it up but I have some progress here to show you.


I have to make her hair and tenticles that cover the naughty bits.  Then I will get some textures off a good friend of mine.

WB

news flash 

Ok I think the mesh is finished, I just have to wait for my texture guy to get back with me on the textures I need.  I made changes to her wings.  Also added the bra and corsette.  The dreadlocks were very time consuming. 

I tossed in a splash of color so you could see it better but now I just wait to get my textures from my friend Jab.

WB

Hello Steve,

Being a spoiled Blender brat, could you make the GUI just a bit more flexible?  I would like to see some color options at least.  I like working in a gray neutral background.  Being able to customize (remap) the hot-keys would be nice too.  That feature is just coming out in Blender 2.5 beta, so I still can't even do that with my current 2.49 version.  Other than that, I think you're doing a wonderful job working by all by yourself and I could never compare your work scale to the entire Blender Foundation. 

WB

Ok here is the main body posed and ready...







Next I will make the body suit followed  by the wings.

@ 3D Joe: Thanks, I tend to think the textures help more than anything. Farrah's texture came from the game (a friend pulled it for me). The male heads textures were found online long ago at a 3DS forum.

@ Dosser: My kid brother played the game and I thought she looked good in the movie cuts. While I was looking online this fan made drawing came up and I liked the pose and I can see making both light and dark fairies from this drawing.  

I'm curious - why are you learning anim8or after Blender?

I just found Anim8or, didn't know it existed.  I am looking for work, I got bored and decided to work on my 3D models.  Money being tight as it is no college (no computer access) so I have been banished to the parents dungeon.    I swear they must have had a wino living in here or perhaps they rented it out to a circus freak.   But the good news is internet access and their old PC... I think it's a PC.    Which is one BIG reason I am not using Blender right now their graphics card is so old Blender won't or can't use it.  I am lucky I found Anim8or.  

@ dkobol: It took some time to render the raycast shadow. So I used an old trick I saw and made the fake shadow it render very quickly. I suppose it couldn't hurt to subdivide the mesh to make her smooth out more. But I was thinking of remaking the hands again with fingers instead of mits.

BTW

I would've thought once you'd mastered all those hidden menus and tiny buttons and right-click selecting you'd think it's too much effort to learn anything else

This is too common a misconception of Blender.  The GUI is able to be changed at the start.  You have the option to change the mouse controls, colors, layout and even make the buttons a big as you want. If you check my postings that was my first question about Anim8or.  Could you change the GUI?  The answer was a flat no.  I would be a rich girl for every Blender noob who said the buttons were too small. 

Ok this first pic is one I made in Blender over a year ago and imported it to Anim8or.  This is the leading lady Farah from Prince of Persia Sands of Time.  I like strong female characters in video games.  After I imported my model I set up 3 lamps 2 area and one spot.  The shadow is a raycast and that causes the render time to creep.



This next render took less time. Mainly because the shadow is a fake. I placed my dark fairy on her shoulder to illustrate that the shadow is artificial.  I duplicated her mesh and using the scale I flattened her out.  I used the warp tool (which is kind of like using lattice in Blender) to skew her.  Gave her a dark gray texture and instant shadow.



This is more importing from my Blender models.  This male head only lacks hair, if this was the Blender it has a particle feature just for that.  So I am probably going to work with banana peels and alpha hair in the Anim8or.   



Now to my first WIP which I will keep you up to date on in this thread.  I want to create this from scratch in the Anim8or.



Some of you might recognize her as "Kerrigan" from Star Craft.  Overall I am really into fairies, angels, and demons.  She kind of looks along the lines of all three.  So now you know where I have been and where I am going.