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These are the final release notes for 1.1.0, which was released 2016-05-14.

Highlights

Important notes

If you are currently using 1.0.2, there are some things that may be confusing when upgrading to 1.1.0.

Many assets are incompatible: If you have a large set of manually added assets such as clothes and targets, please be aware that these may not work as expected with the new release. Targets should mostly work. Version 1.0.2 MHM files should be possible to open, but deprecated proxies and assets may not be available. MHM files made with earlier, unsupported nightly builds may produce very unexpected results. In general, you should test your assets with the new release before trusting everything works as expected.

New philosophy in which assets are included per default: Previously all existing assets were included with the default distribution. This is no longer so. Instead, a small set of robust, full body clothing choices is supplied by default. In addition, there is now a large online area for community-designed assets, to which everyone is welcome to upload their creations. Some previously included assets have been removed from the default distribution in favor of this area. The online area can be found at http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/user_contributed_assets.html

MHX has been deprecated, MHX2 is a plugin: The old MHX format is deprecated. While it still remains in Blender’s code base, users are strongly discouraged from using it. The successor is MHX2, which is a plugin which has to be installed for both MakeHuman and Blender (you will most likely want to install exactly the same version in both). More information can be found in [[FAQ:What happened to the MHX export in MH 1.1.x and later?]].

Most information about MH, and services around MH, has been moved: The server/domain setup has been changed for various legal reasons. The main homepage http://www.makehuman.org is now a skeleton page which mostly include download links. Other services such as forum, bugtracker, wiki and so on has been moved to http://www.makehumancommunity.org. Some links might still not have been updated.

Errata

A few issues have been pushed until later releases. We are aware of these and will fix them later.

#392 - There are numerous issues with the BHV export
#899 - FBX export dislikes non-ascii characters
#1001 - Collada export produces (skeleton) warnings on Maya import

Detailed list of changes

This is a semi-structured list of changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0. The full list of changes (the commit list) can be found at BitBucket.

UI

Drag and drop of .mhm files in makehuman
Improved text support for long right panel labels
Nicer looking application icons by using SVG vector graphics (looks better on OSX retina displays)
Gradient background
Allow disabling/enabling grid
Tag filters in all libraries

File-Export

Add support for binary FBX exporter
Added support for optional export of helper geometry and facial pose units
Added support for specifying bone orientation
Removed export for old mhx, MD5 and skel formats

Modeling

Improved labeling and consistency of modelling sliders
Add random model generation
Added nipple point and nipple size sliders
Added head fat slider
Added scale depth of parietal side slider
Added additional sliders for shaping neck and double chin
Added eye bag sliders
Added support for laugh lines and dimples
Add additional sliders controlling chin shape
Break cheek support into left/right sections
Add additional sliders to control pectoral and dorsal muscle
Add additional control of waist position
Add sliders controlling navel prominence and position
Added sliders to control shoulder muscle mass
Add additional sliders controlling upper arm shape
Additional sliders to control size and muscularity of upper and lower legs
Additional slider to control lower leg height
Add separate measure control for knee

Geometries

Drop genital proxy support (these have been deferred to the user contributed assets area)
Improve clothes tagging system
Include default clothing outfits that clothe upper and lower body without mesh intersections
Include more and improved hair styles
Increase the number and richness of default topologies to include generic and muscle phenotypes
Add additional eyelash choice

Materials

Extend included skin materials to middle age and older individuals
Extend the available choices for eye color

Pose Animate

Redesign the entire rigging system for improved mesh control and pose support (2 skeleton system)
Design basic rigs for new rigging system to support CMU animation and facial posing
Add a pose tab with selectable poses including a T pose
Add an expressions tab with 32 selectable facial expressions
Allow mixing body pose and face pose, if face pose is set override face bones of body pose
Support modeling while mesh is posed
Removed specific rigs intended for commercial third part systems. These have been deferred to the user repos.

System/code

windows DLL dependency fix
improvements and caching in proxy libraries for faster asset loading
binary format for proxy files for faster loading and more compact data
new fully data-driven modifier system
rename of targets and modifiers for more consistency
new skeleton API is much more understandable
a lot of in-code documentation added
many code cleanups and improvements
refactors to improve re-usability of code and facilitate plugin development
reduction of coupling between components
makehuman can be started with a .mhm file passed as commandline argument

Settings

Add the ability to automatically return MakeHuman to the default settings