Releases

1.0 Pre-Alpha (Released March 1st 09)

Pre alpha is just a preview of current development. It's not really usable,due to the lack of load/save feature, but the ethnic mixer-macrodetails tool can be tried, in order to give us interesting feedback about usability. GUI is not completely stable: some elements can be moved, and the theme can be changed. Just a zip, no installer.

• No save files yet
• Rendering (basic) enabled.
• Ethnic group enabled: Africa
• Modelling features: only macrodetails (age, gender, weight, muscle)
• Undo/redo (CTRL Y, CTRL Z)
• No clothes
• No hairs
• No poses

1.0 Alpha1 (Released March 9th 09)

Alpha1 is the first partially usable release, enabling file load/save in a custom makehuman file format. Users can model new characters and save them as a morphing set. Ethnic groups are not yet completed. Modelling is expanded with a new tool, partially enabled: manga tool, to "manganize" the character.

• File selector
• Manga tool
• Details tools
• Ethnic group enabled: Africa, (Japan may slip)
• No microdetails
• No clothes
• No hairs
• No installer

1.0 Alpha2 (Released May 15th 09)

Alpha2 is a more usable release, because now the character can be exported in wavefront obj file format.

• Wavefront exporters, material support
• New event handler
  
• Improved bodyparts selection (mouseover)
• Improved tetrawidget
• Improved skin shader
• Full screen
• Improved skin shader with multilayered sss

1.0 Alpha3 (Released August 4th 09)

• Hair Tool
  
• Installer
• Special hair rendering, using renderman curves

1.0 Alpha4   

Probable release date: Oct 20th

• AutomodellingTool (with alpha DB)
  
• Height tool
• Symmetry mode (instead symmetry tool)
• Background image to load reference pictures
• New quads-only model

1.0 Alpha5

Probable release date: ??
Alpha5 introduces a very important feature: the pose engine. Totally rewritten from scratch, using a new algorithm based on polar coordinates.

• New ethnic group
  
• Basic textures
• Pose system (load-save)

1.0 Beta1

Probable release date: ??
For game developers, an accurate poly decimator, optimized for humans

• Poly hairs
  
• lowpoly exporter
• Genital morphs

1.0 Beta2

Probable release date: ??

• Expression system
• Better textures
  

1.0 Beta3

Probable release date: ??

• Clothes
  
• Python API stable and fully documented
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1.0 Beta4

Probable release date: ??

• Exporting an armature file, able to be imported in Blender (and other scriptable sw).
• Measure tool.
• Ethnic group enabled: Africa, Japan, China, India, South Europe, North Europe

1.0

Probable release date: ?? 09

• Rendering options. Libraries.
• Toon shader
• Ethnic group enabled: Africa, Japan, China, India, South Europe, North Europe, America

1.0 Production Stable

Probable release date: ...

• Ethnic group enabled: All
• Bug fix
• Random characters
  
• Python API examples and basic tutorials

1.0.1 Alpha

Probable release date: end of 2009

• Facial reconstruction
• Fantasy creatures