Link: gamefromscratch.com/mb-lab-1-7-8-released/

i was literally searching for this exact thing less than a day ago, you never disappoint

I have been watching your videos for a while now. They always come up on my feed even though I wasn't subscribed this whole time. [honestly thought I was already] But one thing that always makes me chuckle every time I click on one of your videos is how it sounds like you just main lined a 55 gallon drum of Red Bull. And myself being from NJ I typically am told I talk too fast. lol Great content as usual. I subscribed btw. And thanks for all the coverage on Blender. I have been using it for over a decade professionally and I appreciate seeing it get the attention it has over the years. Videos and content like this are easy to forward to clients that may not be familiar with the software and want assurance that it's something that can be relied on. So thanks for that. That and all the game engine related videos are a huge plus of course.

The AGPL can be an obstacle in case someone wants to create a closed source game or closed source 3D models using 3D characters made with MB-Lab because the AGPL will propagate from the base models and from the database to the output models.

So, we can make the character we want, but we can't use it in our productions... let me stay with MakeHuman

Under CHARACTER DESIGN -> Body Measures -> Measurements (enabled) there are loads parameters for adjustment of the character, especially the face. For instance the nose has about 30 params. That is where the section for Expressions are too.

Oh that looks like a lot of fun to play with- thanks!

The output is awwsome 👍

I'm so happy this is back. I use man lab in Unity with salsa lip sync for my game.

I always love your content.

So non-AGPL base meshes are still missing, that's a dealbreaker.

You can move the sliders smoothly if you untoggle the subsurf temporarily! Useful trick.

5:19 we now know that gamesfromscratch has a cat (:

I so happy you did an update video to this plus maybe you could do an update video on vroid studio and making clothes plus they have a blender import addon to

You can edit your recordings and extend frames in Camtasia, allowing your to remove sections like the waiting or any mistaken nudity. It's super-quick to-do, you don't need to obsess about it during the actual recording process.

"Oh-oh! Stop that!" I'm dying 😂

YES, this looks great!

Works with Blender 2.8.2 and 2.8.3. With version 2.9 it sometimes gives an error when finalizing. With the subdivision off, the model is about 18K triangles. Rig works without problems with external bhv animations (so far I have tested it without muscles), including finger animation (unsolved problem with makewalk). Slow interface and finalization even with subdivision off. There is a description for creating your own model in the utilities section, but it needs to be tested.

thanks for sharing this is very cool. gonna try for my own rig :D

Thanks for this tutorial, I'll try to use it

2:40 What I have started doing in my default startup file is add a “Prefs” workspace where the Preferences editor is already open in a window. That way it is just one click on a tab to switch to or from preferences settings, without having to select from a menu.

Thanks for the tip! There goes Saturday :-)

one of the most prominent features of aging is that the jawline starts to droop, i didnt see any of that when you increased age to 76 so that was a bit disappointing. the eyelids would be thick and drooping also.

dude ! chill ! amazing content but .. relax :D

I would use both, while both have their strengths there is some limited ability to MB-Lab that Make Human has and like wise, btw Mike thank you for telling me about MB- Lab's auto update tool

"This is Blender 2.83 I think" your Blender version is displayed in the very bottom-right, on the statusbar :)

Is there a way to move the eyes? I've been playing around with it, but there's no widget(?) to move/track the eyes. It's weird to have the character just stare straight ahead all the time

Thanks for clearafy licence status for this plugin since many afraid it's wont allow you use is commercially

6:28 actual tutorial if you don’t wanna hear about the history

So! When is it getting the epic mega grant?

This looks promising!!! Character creator 3 is in trouble!!

thank you

Which would you suggest for creating realistic "actors" for movies (vs game characters)? MB-Lab or MakeHuman?

I actually did have an idea for a free game (not battle royale fyi) but I think MH deserves more attention. Mblabs base mesh models are waaay too detailed. Which means - depending on your machine a lot of waiting for rendering. Also no rig compatibility for UE4.

The only problem I have since I use it for a while is the face isn’t rigged yet even there’s a face rig button. Or is it just me who dont know how to use it

"We just got a fair bit more... gelatinous" hahaha

About the license, is it possible to make a open source repository with only your characters but have the rest of the game (music, levels, actual code and whatnot) still closed? Or the full game has to go Public Open Source?

Super tutorial, great one. Is it possible to put my face or your face on this character?

does it mean we need to import our own base characters to avoid the AGPL? or we can use this addon and export as is and be ok?

You have to select the character mesh for the hair to work.

I'm confused, can i use MBLAB for commercial projects or not?

if you have trouble like i am uploading the created character to Mixamo to add an animation, try deleting the MBl skeleton armature before you export the .fbx file from blender and upload it to Mixamo. They'll have you rerig it with their rig and then the character will be uploaded for you to check out animations on with Adobe's rig. if you don't this then the fbx file fails to upload to Mixamo, and this was the first and quickest fix i found for getting around that.

Thanks for such cool video! Plese tell me why in material priview i see only violet color insted of texture of character's skin? I will be grateful for the answer!

Can't believe its completely free + free license

Wait? So, how about the current license? Is it free to use for commercial right now? Since it's not quite clear I think @__@. Thanks

11:23 Does “BVH” stand for more than one thing? I thought one meaning was “Bounded Volume Hierarchy”.

This looks a lot like the $70 "Human Generator." However, _that_ app seems a bit more stable, if nothing else. Still, this looks quite interesting. Thanks!

We’ve come a long way from Poser 5 lol

Yay for early!!!

Great add-on! But when I finalze my skin becomes pale like a zombie like 10:57. What can I do to solve this problem?

i am new to animation and blender in all can we create an animated small clips ?? with this i think from explanation i believe so... please if you have small tutorial ?? Thanks

I can't wait to keyframe age.

These random realistic builder is much better than MakeHuman.. will try it for sure.. thank you

Finally someone continued on with this free and great character creation tool to make it compatible with Blender 2.8 versions! I used Makehuman before with earlier Blender versions but the plugins for Blender (MHX) dont work with 2.8 versions as I get it. The development of both MBlabs and Makehuman came to a complete stop before indeed. I guess It was because Blender 2.8 use python 3 whereas earlier versions used Python 2.7. Since Python 3 and python 2.7 are not compatible this means you have to revrite plugins and tools from scratch to work with Blender 2.8 and upwards and I guess thats why MB gave up. Gonna give this a test spin later. What I see is promising!

I undestand the AGPL license doesnt apply to 2d renders...so would making sprites with the models for a game also require me to give the models and game for free?

I use 2.81 Version for Blender, before when i start to launch screen to Blender, it's work normally speed also after when i press the Preferences to click on Add-Ons then i press install to find MB-Lab-1_7_8.zip, after it's on already so i press Create character before it's work normally with Method to display/shade objects in the 3D view: Solid, and after when i press the Method to display/shade objects in the 3D view: Material Preview, problem is something gone wrong about the speed are not good enough, i don't even understand what's the problem system for MB-LAB are too slow, i have no idea how gonna to fix problem speed? Maybe MB-LAB is more highest Ghz or it's differents? My: Windows 10 Professional 64-Bits My: AMD FX (tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor 3,30 GHz And i'm sorry my bad english!

Show us how to do the clothing Mike! Its the most important part

This may be useful

Where to find the hair asset? I don't have that in my version of the program (the latest).

He asked for it on FB? I didn't know people still used that.

Thanks. When I click "finalize", it doesn't work. I just get an error message. Do you have any tips on how to fix this please?

When I try to go to the website for MB lab I keep getting my connection is not private

How does exporting work with MB-LAB?

I can't get it to install in Blender 3.0 nowadays, any advice?? Maybe do an updated tutorial??

Don't forget Blender Sensei

How would this addon compare to DAZ or Character Creator? Thanks .

Hello, can these heads be transferred to mb lab in blender?

There is something similar to this on Steam, I forget the name offhand.

You're too fucking worried about that YT algorithm.

@7:01 shit dude, I hope I look that good at 76...

The license in GitHub (github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab/blob/master/license.txt) is still AGPL, under section "LICENSE OF MODELS GENERATED BY THE SOFTWARE" as "The default license for models generated by the software is AGPL 3: www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html. As derived product of the AGPL'd database, the models must be distribuited under AGPL 3, with the same copyright of the database." So I don't know what that post is saying, the license is still a no-go.

interesting, i can make shittier games in less than a minute now

The only thing you are missing right now to make your video a rap music video is just some background music or some looping beats...lol

can we generate hairs by using mb lab

@9:39 It's Dr. Eggman, yo!

Do you use LBRY? You don't need to worry about the nude stuff there. Just make sure its labeled correctly.

If I understand correctly if you use this to make a KZfaq video or the like you don't have to host and link to the assets, so it's still useful for video work. However, as someone who can't make character models it's still absolutely useless for game development. "Do the thing you can't do and we won't infect your game with digital herpes." If you can make your own characters you might as well cut MB-Lab out of the loop. I mean it's their software and they're free to release it under any license they see fit, but it's kind of a tease if you want to do anything other than Cycles/Eevee rendered videos.

Anyone know how to put a beard on the mb lab character?

Somebody get them an Epic Mega Grant!

is that you from cg geek?

How do you remove the sensor

And i just found you lol :D

The viral license makes it useless for game developers.

I tried it out with a few characters, unfortunately it kept crashing with Traceback errors when finalizing on 2.90.1

Right, so in order to use this in commercial projects you would have to create your own base mesh which kind of defeats the purpose, right?

Powerful , BUT it doesn't support mediocre or low poly characters, which you end up with something like 500k vertices that is not suitable for game dev

When is he going to be a professional rapper

Take a breath now and then.

Guess this is why DAZ are getting of their asses and working on official importers now.

blender wants to crush maya somehow? damn, i see blender everywhere it's amazing

WOW ! in 1990 this would be realistic. I can make 8 Realistic Human in the same Length of the Video using Blender...

Do you honestly think this is better than DAZ3D to Blender bridge? OK. To each his own.

How does it compare to makehuman?

Um how do you remove the underwear paint?

Is cool but is rather just sculpt my own at least then I own it

the Black character is the same color as the white character lol

tip to get rid of the censor (black underwear) select the censor in the groups and make it the same material as the skin!

Man, the only thing that we need is more clothing options in MakeHuman and it will be all set like the best Human Generator. I tried to export clothing to MakeHuman from Blender but it doesn't work. This program sucks. I wish there was a tutorial on dding clothing to the MakeHuman Community.

Is MB lab free For Commercial Use

The face not changing with body mass is weird.