This is a port of MakeHuman to Python 3 and PyQt5.

The testing vision for this code is to build a community release that includes the ported code and often-used, user-contributed plug-ins. We hope that the utility of this integrated functionality is sufficient to entice a larger cohort of testers who get value-added in exchange for the possibility of uncovering deficiencies in our port. When testing verifies it's robustness it should a suitable replacement for the current bitbucket code extending the future of MakeHuman beyond the Python 2 "end-of-life".

If you have any questions about the software and its usage, please make a request in our forum: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum. We are not going to answer support requests on the bug tracker!

WARNING: THE CODE IN THIS REPOSITORY IS CURRENTLY NOT FIT FOR PRODUCTION USE!

If you want a stable release of MakeHuman, see http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/downloads.html

This said, the code in the master branch will work if a few basic requirements are met:

• You must use a graphics card capable of using the opengl calls MH rely on. It is currently not easy to say exactly which these are.

Builds for Windows platforms can be downloaded at: http://download.tuxfamily.org/makehuman/nightly/. These builds include all required dependencies.

If you rather run the code from source:

• Install git (https://git-scm.com/) with LFS support (https://git-lfs.github.com/). Modern git clients have LFS support included per default.
• Make sure the command "git" is available via the PATH variable.
• Install python 3.5.x or later from https://www.python.org/ (or via your system's package management)
• Figure out how to run "pip": https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ (it should have been installed automatically by python), but on Linux use your default package menagemnt system
• Use "pip" to install dependencies:
  • "pip install numpy"
  • "pip install PyQt5"
  • "pip install PyOpenGL"
• on Debian based systems you need to install: python3-numpy, python3-opengl, python3-pyqt5, python3-pyqt5.opengl, python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
• Use git to clone https://github.com/makehumancommunity/makehuman.git (or download the source as a zip)
• Run the "download_assets_git.py" script in the "makehuman" subdirectory of the source code.
• Optionally also run:
  • compile_models.py
  • compile_proxies.py
  • compile_targets.py

Having done this, you can now start MakeHuman by running the makehuman.py script.

There are three standard branches and some additional developer working branches:

• master: This is where you will find the latest version of MakeHuman.

Read-only reference branches

• bitbucket-stable: This is the code as it looks in the "stable" branch at bitbucket. This is the ancestor of what is now the "master" branch.
• bitbucket-default: This is the code as it looks in the "default" branch at bitbucket.

In addition you may from time to time see feature branches (usually named _feature...), which are removed after having been merged to the master branch.