This option should be checked if the image will be used as a reference image for modelling. The 'Show in Foreground' checkbox option allows you to place the image in front of the character in the scene so that the character will be obscured according to the opacity level setting of the background image. Setting the control to 0 will make the image invisible (100% transparency) and setting the opacity control to 250 will make the image fully opaque (0% tranparency). The standard Opacity setting of 100 is equivalent to a 60% transparency level. These controls are particularly useful when you are using reference images to model your character. The Background Setting options allow you to set the background image's opacity using the Opacity slider control, which determines how transparent or opaque the image will appear in the scene, and to set the image as a background or foreground. Pressing one of the camera view options is the easiest way to get a background image to reappear if it disappears due to a camera view change.

The background image, in fact, will only appear while the camera remains in the side view specified. As the camera view changes into each side view or other view angle, the image shown will change as match your image side configuration for each of the camera side views shown in the modelling window. You can insert up to 7 different images into the MakeHuman™ scene by applying a different image to each Side option. If you are placing an image to act as a reference image for modelling your character, you should select the side that matches your reference facing. If you choose the last radio button option labeled 'Other' you can add the background into the scene with the character and camera position however it was last set, as long as it was not in one of the predfined camera views. The first six (6) options set the background in your scene using the standard Camera view positions. You can specify where you would like the background placed relative to your MakeHuman™ character with the Side control choices on the right hand side of the Background tab screen. Prior to selecting an image you should first determine the side of the MakeHuman™ scene where you want the image to appear. The 'None' icon is used to remove the background from the MakeHuman™ scene.ĭifferent backgrounds for different sides When you open the Background tab you will see a 'None' icon and a list of thumbnails of the files within the backgrounds folder in the home folder (see FAQ:Where are my MakeHuman files found (where is my HOME directory)?), if they are present. The Background tab allows you to add background/foreground images to use as a modelling reference or to create a scene within MakeHuman™ for the Short Pipeline. MakeHuman needs to be restarted for a change in the language settings to be effective. This option is just to remember the custom windows size used for MakeHuman. Using the preload increases a lot the performance, but in the case when the targets are not compiled (for example the raw targets cloned from HG) it will considerably increase the loading time during startup. This option is very important for perfomance and startup loading time. Metric, to use meters, centimeters, etc.This setting is to choose the measurement system that will be used : Disable it for a more compact list of controls. Enable the images to illustrate the sliders' effect. This can be useful in some cases, but it doesn't allow custom point of view, so this option is disabled by default. For example, editing the head, it will zoom in to it, editing the hand, it will automatically zoom in to the hand, etc. Enabling it will automatically zoom in the camera to the zone of interest. By enabling it, all objects (eyes, hair, clothes, teeth, etc.) are fitted in real time during the body transformations.

Computing the surface normals requires an intensive CPU calculation, so this can slow down old PCs. By enabling this option, the normals are updated during the slider movements in order to see a correct shading in real time. This option recalculates the human shape in real time during the slider movements.

The general settings include important features that can make a huge difference in MakeHuman's performance. 2.1 Different backgrounds for different sides.

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