MB Lab Developer Guide

This is the start of a reference for MB-Lab internals, where each sections is described (as best we can tell) what MB-Lab does and why.

MB-Lab Modules

_ init _.py

This is the core of the addon.

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algorithms.py

Contains various functions for every engine.

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animationengine.py

Retargeting. Identifies Bones. Similar functions (expand). Loads BVH files, saves and loads poses.

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humanoid.py

Handles much of the character changing functions including Auto-Modelling.

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materialengine.py

This is where the image textures get loaded and applied to nodes

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morphengine.py

This is where the morphs of the character are loaded from JSON files

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proxyengine.py

Handles the Proxy Fitting functions

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skeletonengine.py

Loads and applies the skeleton (either FK or IK) to the character

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MB-Lab Data

humanoid_library.blend

Contains the base models, skeletons and shaders for MB-Lab

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characters_config.json

The base model, textures and JSON data are referenced from this file

Example (Female Caucasian data)

https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab/blob/00e91d33012924c2f2276b3a7ab9cd2327cedad1/data/characters_config.json#L61

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retarget_knowledge.json

Retargetting data

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anthropometry

assets

bboxes

expressions_comb

expressions_morphs

joints

measures

morphs

pgroups

phenotypes

poses

presets

textures

transformations

vertices

vgroups