• Digital Bast

  about 3 years ago

  It's a Really good addon and it does what it says it does, but i would love to hear some new features that includes generating crowds of low poly versions of them, also, more clothing and hair styles options could make this even better.

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  Oliver Post

  about 3 years ago

  Thanks for the feedback, Ignacio!

  As for crowd generation, I assume you already found the batch generator inside the add-on? We did some tests with low-poly versions and inside Blender there is a negligible performance improvement by lowering the poly count. Selecting a lower texture resolution and hair resolution makes a much bigger difference. We are however still considering adding lower poly versions in the future, since game-engines are a bit more strict on poly counts.
• Bassem Adel

  about 3 years ago

  For an architect I see that this add-on is a huge time saver
  That batch generator is quite amazing for stills , this addon will take six stars if they managed to make crowd simulations !
  quality and customization is impressive even clothing has neat settings , but maybe need a little push in terms of details like the humans themselves , but even performance on blender 3.0 is butter smooth unlike some ratings here complaining about crashing (didn't encounter any problem or a single crash till now from the addon)
  Chapeau for real , keep awesome work

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  Oliver Post

  about 3 years ago

  Thanks for the review and the feedback, Bassem! Also, I'm glad to hear the performance has been buttery smooth for you. As for your comment on the crashes, this is a very rare problem related to a bug in Blender 2.90+ itself. If you don't have a very specific configuration of Apple computer, this crash will never happen for you.
• alexandre

  about 3 years ago

  Hello, The addon is very good, but i bought it specially for the "scaterring humans option".
  One one hand, its very intuitive, very simple to use, and you have many options to create differents humans, poses and clothes. This part is very good
  But in other hands its very hard/impossible to create something that you will use for your scene. I cannot find anywhere documentation to do basics operations :
  Resize the humans : when you create markers you should be able to resize it to fit to your scene, or its impossible to use this on your scene
  -Reduce polys, when you create an addon with a Batch mode, it should be possible to reduce polys (the option 512px is good but not enought)
  -If you can't resize before, at least an option to create only "1 meshe for 1 human" to use it for scaterring and creating crowds.
  I might chaange my ratings if there is any solution for that, or some tutorials to do it ?

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  Oliver Post

  about 3 years ago

  Thanks a lot for providing feedback, Alexandre, we are sorry to hear the add-on didn't fully live up to your expectations.
  -What kind of resizing do you mean exactly? Resizing in the regular height range of humans ~1.5-2 meters or do you need a totally different scale for a scene that is not based on real-world scale?
  -As for reducing polys, we've done extensive tests on the impact of the polygon resolution of the mesh on Blender render times and performance, and a lower polycount makes almost no difference in both render time or render memory usage. For use in external programs (i.e. game engines) we understand the wish for different LODs and this is something we are looking at for the next update.
  -May I ask what use case this would be useful for? Is this mainly for exporting, or moving around? If it's rigged people, it's not possible to make it one single model. If the armature would be applied, I guess it could be possible.

  If you have any further questions, please let me know
• Lukas Sosa

  about 3 years ago

  I think the software would be great but it also crashes my blender every time, when im in the creation phase of the human, at some point it just closes everything. need help please. using it on version 3.0 on newest Macbook Pro ?!

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  Oliver Post

  about 3 years ago

  Hey Lukas,
  Sorry to hear you are running into an issue! You might be experiencing a very rare Blender 2.90+ bug that crashes Blender when you use particle systems (which Human Generator uses for hair) only on certain MacOS configurations. If you haven't DM'd me already, please send me a message so I can take a look at this for you.
• Dennis Memeo

  over 3 years ago

  Great addon!!! Amazing quality, a lot of costumizations and fast workflow. Now I'm waiting for an integrated motion library for animation without mixamo or other external library!!! Thaks for your works!!!

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  Oliver Post

  about 3 years ago

  Thanks a lot for taking the time to write a review, Dennis! I am glad to hear you like the add-on! An integrated animation library is something we're interested in, but it's currently not on our schedule.
• nathan

  over 3 years ago

  Crashes My Blender everytime

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  Oliver Post

  over 3 years ago

  Hey Nathan, sorry to hear that you are experiencing a crashing issue. I've replied to your email, so I can help finding a solution to this issue you are experiencing!
• Aengus Patterson

  over 3 years ago

  Really great addon, I appreciate you guys making this. However, I have one suggestion, that being to add the ability to decrease the detail levels of the humans. This addon is great for creating photo-realistic humans and rendering stuff in blender but I feel like the use cases could go way up if you were able to decrease some of the detail. For example, in real time video game there will never really be a need for that much detail unless somebody is willing to melt their computer. Overall great addon and I'm excited to see further updates.

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  Oliver Post

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks for the review and the feedback, Angus!
  We did some tests with lower levels of detail recently and found the performance increase inside Blender negligible and not worth the sacrifice of detail, shading and UV quality. However, for use outside Blender I can totally understand the wish for LODs, so we are definitely keeping it on the table as an option.
• clifton kirby

  over 3 years ago

  doesn't work with blender 2.80 or blender 2.90. the product crashes every time use it.
  this is not a good product. Keep your money.

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  Oliver Post

  over 3 years ago

  Hey Clifton, Sorry to hear you've ran into an issue with Human Generator!
  Could you please contact me, so I can take a look at the issue you are experiencing? Please also let me know what version of HG you are using, at what point you are experiencing a crash, and what operating system you are using. HG won't work with 2.80 indeed, but it definitely should work just fine with any version after 2.83.
• Andrei Abramenko

  over 3 years ago

  All in all it's a stellar add-on for my concept art needs. What I'd love to see next is a separate library for hands poses. + Maybe some way to combine poses inside the HumGen UI. Cheers!

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  Oliver Post

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks for reviewing, Andrei! Also, thanks for the suggestions!
  May I ask, what exactly do you mean by combining poses? Do you mean combining them on a timeline/different keyframes or combining for example a leg pose with an arms pose into one single pose?
• Brihgl

  over 3 years ago

  This is really good tool but is not really as useful as I hoped. Great looking humans! However a few more hair styles would be good - like "short back and sides" style for caucasion males - see very film from 1920 to 1960 - with option to "shaggify" it into the 70's. (there are similar styles but you don't seem to be able to get it right with the settings - I will have to learn to customise). However the biggest let down for me was the fact that almost all clothing is incredibly skin tight. This immediately makes every human look unrealistic - for anything other than a group of dance performers! I can unserstand that the armature weighting for baggier clothes might be more complex to get right - but perhaps just make it clear that the wieghting may need more manual adjustment, the baggier the fit?
  I wanted a character in a short sleeved shirt and thought I could easily cut the arms off the long sleeved shirt - but of course the whole arm dissappears so I might have tried grafting the shirt onto another body - but the shirt was too tight in the first place - so I'll have to do it manually. So I'm not sure if I'll get much use out of this until the libraries expand quite a bit... but i've only played with this tool for a few hours, so only time will tell.

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  Oliver Post

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks for the feedback, Brihgl!
  We are currently not planning on adding hairstyles from other eras, as our main focus is on contemporary humans.
  As for most of our clothing being slim fit, this is mainly because we want to support a large range of body proportions and for baggier clothes to work with this one would need to add a layer of cloth simulation on top, which would slow the process down a lot (for example a baggy hoodie might be very baggy on a skinny person, but more tight on a bigger person).
  As for the arm disappearing underneath clothing, this is just a mask. You can remove the mask modifier from the modifier list and the arm will be back again.

  Let me know if you have any further questions!

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