VirtualCaliper-BodyMeshExporter/readme.txt

# Virtual Caliper - BodyMeshExporter
+ https://virtualcaliper.is.tue.mpg.de
+ Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
  + https://ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/

Creates female/male skeletal meshes in FBX format using the body description information generated by the BodyCreator tool or other software tools.

The generated FBX files can be imported in game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine for immediate use in desktop or Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality applications.

# Requirements
+ Blender 2.79b for your operating system
+ BodyCreator tool for your operating system

# Prerequisites

## Windows 10
1. Copy Blender 2.79b (blender-2.79b-windows64) to this folder
   + https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.79/blender-2.79b-windows64.zip
   + Note that you can also use your existing Blender 2.79b install by editing the path to Blender in createAvatars.bat
2. Copy BodyCreator application to this folder
   + BodyCreator.exe + BodyCreator_Data

## Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
1. Copy Blender 2.79b (blender-2.79b-linux-glibc219-x86_64) to this folder
   + https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.79/blender-2.79b-linux-glibc219-x86_64.tar.bz2
   + Note that you can also use your existing Blender 2.79b install by editing the path to Blender in createAvatars.sh
2. Copy BodyCreator application to this folder
   + BodyCreator + BodyCreator_Data

## macOS
1. Copy Blender 2.79b (blender-2.79b-macOS-10.6) to this folder
   + https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.79/blender-2.79b-macOS-10.6.zip
   + Note that you can also use your existing Blender 2.79b install by editing the path to Blender in createAvatars.sh
2. Copy BodyCreator application to this folder
   + BodyCreator.app

# Usage

1. Run BodyCreator application from this folder
2. Create desired body
3. Click on "Export" button.
   + This will then generate body description information in this folder (body-f.json, body-m.json).


4. Run createAvatars.bat (Windows) or createAvatars.sh (Linux/OSX) shell script to generate female and male skeletal mesh files in FBX format from the body descriptions (body-f.json, body-m.json).