README.md

License

MIT

Install

1. Clone avatar git clone https://github.com/jsan3386/avatar
2. Download cloth textures and extract files in avatar folder
   cd $avatar/dressing
mv $download_folder/testures.zip .
unzip textures.zip
   
3. Move avatar folder to Blender addons folder
   mv $avatar $blender_install/$blender_version/scripts/addons
   
4. In Blender>Edit>Preferences search for avatar and activate addon

Features

Shape Parameters

1. Select Avatar body
2. Move shape sliders to desired body shape

Dressing Avatar

1. Select cloth garment from library
2. Load cloth to Avatar

Transfer BVH motion files

1. Select Avatar skeleton
2. Select bvh file skeleton (blender_repo, cmu, mixamo)
3. Load bvh file to Avatar

Code examples and further documentation

Avatar Blender Add-on Docs

Credits

• Makehuman
  • Clothes mostly on Mindfront, punkduck

• Aniol Civit Bertran - Human model shape parameters
• Code and help from:
  • Blender Stack Exchange
  • Blender Artists

Citation

@misc{sanchezriera2021avatar,
      title={AVATAR: Blender add-on for fast creation of 3D human models}, 
      author={Jordi Sanchez-Riera and Aniol Civit and Marta Altarriba and Francesc Moreno-Noguer},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2103.14507},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.GR}
}