SMPL-X Blender Add-On -- Tutorial
This add-on allows you to add SMPL-X (https://smpl-x.is.tue.mpg.de) skinned meshes to your current Blender scene. Each imported SMPL-X mesh consists of a shape specific rig, as well as shape keys (blend shapes) for shape, expression and pose correctives.
This brings SMPL-X Model into Blender without requiring the user to have any knowledge of Python. It gives the Blender user access to a rigged, morpheable and textured body model with corrective poseshapes.
Export SMPL-X in FBX!
Download the add-on from: https://smpl-x.is.tue.mpg.de/
Use cases:
integration of human models into archviz and other environments that benefit from human-scale reference models.
interactive reposing of SMPL-X model using the Blender pose tools
export to other third party tools (Unity, Unreal, ...)
Details:
Requirements: Blender 2.80+, tested with 2.92.0
Additional dependencies: None
Used SMPL-X model: SMPL-X v1.1 with 10 shape components, 10 expression components
Features
Create animated body from AMASS SMPL-X animation .npz file
Add female/male/neutral specific SMPL-X mesh to current scene
Set sample albedo texture
Position feet on ground plane (z=0)
Randomize/reset shape
Update joint locations
Randomize/reset face expression shape
Enable/disable corrective poseshapes
Change hand pose (flat, relaxed)
Write current pose in SMPL-X theta notation to console
Load pose from .pkl file (full pose with 55 joints in Rodrigues notation)
FBX export to Unity
Exports mesh in default T-Pose with flat hands
Imported FBX will show up in Unity inspector without rotations and without scaling
Shape key export options:
Body shape and posecorrectives
Body shape without posecorrectives
None (bakes current body shape into mesh)
Creator: Joachim Tesch, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Thanks: Meshcapade GmbH for the textures
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