Re: MakeHuman obj file

thanks. turns out i had the script. yeh, i'm a complete novice.
any advise for armature in the make human models ... i tried making 
some for the thing but it twisted my model's left forearm out of 
whack.... when i went back to try again, when i tried to parent it a 
message popped up saying the program had run into an error and had 
to shut down



--- In [email protected], "Robert" <sniper_lt@h...> wrote:
>
> 
> 1. Download this script from this site. You will need to 
rightclick 
> on 
> the link that I will put in at the end of this message, and choose 
> Save 
> TargetAs.(IF you are using window and Internet Explorer)
> 2. When the Save dialog box pops up navigate to the 
folder/directory 
> that you saved blender into. Go to the .blender sub folder. go to 
the 
> scripts subfolder and save the obj_import.py file.
> 
> 3. Open blender.  Place your mouse pointer in the 3d window.
> 
> 4. SPLIT the 3D window.-SLOWLY move the mouse pointer down toward 
the 
> button window until it is right on the border between the 3-D 
window 
> and the button window and it turns into a double headed arrow. 
NOTE 
> you 
> must move FROM the 3D winodw TOWARD the button window BUT NOT INTO 
> the 
> button window. Just stop at the border between the two. Window 
> spliting 
> in blender gives you the choice of splitting the window that your 
> mouse 
> pointer moves FROM as it appoaches a border between two windows. 
If 
> you 
> over shoot and try to move the pointer back to the border, it will 
> give 
> you the choice of spliting the wrong window.
>  
> 5. Select split window from the pop up menu. The 3D window will be 
> split vertically.
> 
> 6. Left click on the double headed vertical arrow next to the 
button 
> that looks like a grid in either of those two window's header.
> 
> 7. In the menu that pops up choose Scripts Window.
> 
> 8. In the new "Scripts Window" you will have one menu choice in 
the 
> header named "Scripts". Left click on it and in the menu that pops 
up 
> left click on "Update Menu".
> 
> 8. The menu will disappear. Left click on "Scripts" in the Scripts 
> Window header again. This time go to the "Import" sub-menu. A new 
> widow 
> will pop out giving you the choice of several import formats. 
Choose 
> the one that says "OBJ".
> 
> 9. The scrips menu will change to the import scripts interface. 
left 
> click the "Seach" Button. The import script's interface will 
change 
> into a standard blender file selection window.
> 
> 10. Navigate to your MakeHuman installation directory/folder and 
then 
> to the "exported" sub-directory/folder. If you have tried pushing 
> the "save as obj" button in make human several times you will have 
a 
> LOT of files in that directory that have names 
> like "outfile1,outfile2,outfile3" I would left click the one with 
the 
> highest number. These are all the .obj files that you have tried 
to 
> export and the one with the highest number is the most recent.
> 
> 11. Click the load button in that file selection window. The OBJ 
> import 
> script will appears again. Then left click the "Load" button in 
that 
> winodow and your MakeHuman will appear at the location of the 3D 
> cursor 
> in the 3D window that you have open.
> 
> Here is the link.
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~cpbarton/ideasman/obj_import.py
> 
> 
> I purposely made this a "click this and click that" post becasue I 
do 
> not know your level of experiance with blender or windows and I 
find 
> that many of the tutorials online just ASSume the reader might 
have 
> knowledge that the author does.
> 
> Edit
> 
> --- In [email protected], "mitnalice" <mitnalice@y...> wrote:
> >
> > hello, all
> > can anyone tell me how (or if it's even possible) to import obj 
files 
> > from MakeHuman?... and for that matter is it possible to reopen 
those 
> > files in mh?...
> > i won't lie, i'm basically illiterate, so i may be missing 
something 
> > right under my nose, but i'd really appreciate any help you can 
> > offer ... hate to think i sat here downloading these programs 
just to 
> > have to resign myself to pen and ink
> > thanks
> > c
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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