To learn about SMPL, please visit our website: http://smpl.is.tue.mpg You can find the SMPL paper at: http://files.is.tue.mpg.de/black/papers/SMPL2015.pdf
Visit our downloads page to download some sample animation files (FBX), and python code: http://smpl.is.tue.mpg/downloads
For comments or questions, please email us at: smpl@tuebingen.mpg.de
Operating system: OSX, Linux
Python Dependencies:
Extract the 'smpl.zip' file to your home directory (or any other location you wish)
We need to update the PYTHONPATH environment variable so that the system knows how to find the SMPL code. Add the following lines to your ~/.bash_profile file (create it if it doesn't exist; Linux users might have ~/.bashrc file instead), replacing ~/smpl with the location where you extracted the smpl.zip file:
SMPL_LOCATION=~/smpl export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$SMPL_LOCATION
Open a new terminal window to check if the python path has been updated by typing the following:
echo $PYTHONPATH
In the new Terminal window, navigate to the smpl/smpl_webuser/hello_world directory. You can run the hello world scripts now by typing the following:
python hello_smpl.py
OR
python render_smpl.py
Note: Both of these scripts will require the dependencies listed above. The scripts are provided as a sample to help you get started.