download links to free stuff

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Blender import-export add-ons

mmd_tools powroupi fork (imports pmd, pmx, vmd, vpd, exports pmx, vmd, vpd Direct download: https://github.com/powroupi/blender_mmd_tools/archive/dev_test.zip Main page https://github.com/powroupi/blender_mmd_tools Issues https://github.com/powroupi/blender_mmd_tools/issues

Bones Renamer add-on https://github.com/Hogarth-MMD/bones_renamer

translations.csv file to use with mmd_tools (powroupi fork) translation feature https://github.com/Hogarth-MMD/mmd_tools_translation

XNALaraMesh Blender add-on for import export of XNALara models: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/76g7rvt4ec661/XPS

Sims 3 clip tool Blender add-on https://sims3cliptool.wordpress.com/download/ https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au6WTUjO2w0ngU_ltW5veBDCfTwH Alternate download dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d1qthin5yz1u9z6/AAAKCcr7HinySAkcsLnD-7ZZa?dl=0 Sims 3 rigs https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au6WTUjO2w0ngVKwSuWDpzEmktJK https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au6WTUjO2w0ngVGrgllWF2N8_IPu

(Sims 3 clip tool Blender add-on imports and exports Sims 3 .animation files using Blender's file import and file export menus. Additionally it creates several buttons under the scene tab of the Properties Window.)

TS3 Tools Blender add-on for Sims 3 http://modthesims.info/d/433882 download link page: http://modthesims.info/d/433882#actualtab1

(TS3 Tools Blender add-on imports and exports Sims 3 .s3m2b files. It also has other panels and buttons which appear under ths scene tab of the properties panel when a Sims character's mesh object is selected to be active.)

Diffeomorphic DAZ importer Blender add-on http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.ca/p/daz-importer-version-12.html

(Diffeomorphic DAZ importer Blender add-on imports DAZ .duf (DAZ user files) and .dsf (DAZ scene file) files into Blender)

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Blender character makers

Cookie Flex Rig https://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/61707 (The Cookie Flex Rig is more than just a rig. It can be used to make verious characters. There are 3 bones which have custom shapes with the appearance of a 2D man. If these 3 bones are selected, various slider and other controls appear on the right side of the 3D view and you can use these controls to make characters.)

Manuel Bastioni Lab Blender add-on http://www.manuelbastioni.com/download.php

Makehuman http://www.makehuman.org/index.php

Makehuman community user-contributed assets http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/user_contributed_assets.html

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Free BVH files

The CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) database of 2548 free BVH files: https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture Daz-friendly version https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/daz-friendly-release 3dsMax-friendly version https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/3dsmax-friendly-release-of-cmu-motion-database MotionBuilder-friendly version https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/cmu-bvh-conversion

Truebones 500 free sample BVH files http://www.truebones.com/500Free.rar

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Free characters downloads

XNALara models https://xnalara.deviantart.com/ https://xnalara-customized.deviantart.com/

Blend Swap https://www.blendswap.com

Sintel Lite https://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/7093

DAZ forums freebies https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/freebies

ShareCG.com https://www.sharecg.com

[Hogarth-MMD]

Hello @powroupi and everyone! I have the idea that mmd_tools will be used to convert models and animations to and from MMD. So I have been collecting some download links which are relevant to achieving this goal, and you can see the links which I have compiled above in my last several posts in this issue. :-)

[Hogarth-MMD]

The cookie flex rig character has a couple of issues with materials. His skin is darker after exporting from Blender. That happens because he has color management sRGB in Blender but MMD has color management None. I have no %^&** idea of how to make a color correction for that. The alpha channel of one of the texture images causes part of his skin to be invisible after exporting from Blender.

When I tried to export a character from DAZ Studio, I got a weird error message "must be a Triax weight-mapped character" or something like that. So the DAZ Studio Blender add-on didn't work for me because I couldn't export a character or scene from DAZ Studio.

[Hogarth-MMD]

The Sims 3 armature is an interesting, complicated armature. For conversion to MMD, the main complicating factor seems to be the Sims 3 twist and untwist bones.

The Sintel Lite armature and the Cookie Flex Rig armature are both variants of the Rigify armature. The Sintel Lite bone names have an error. .R and .L are appearing in the middle of Sintel Lite bone names, but they should appear at the end of the bone names.

[nathanvasil]

I have no %^&** idea of how to make a color correction for that.

Sounds like he has uncorrected gamma. What you might try is taking the value of each pixel of the texture and taking it to the 1/2.2 power, which is a likely gamma chosen for the model. Not for alpha channel though. There are multiple ways to do this, and it's probably possible in Blender, but I'd prefer to do it elsewhere because I don't know enough about how to keep Blender from being "smart" about gamma correction. Using an emission shader to bake textures read as non-color data, separated to individual values and processed with math nodes rather than color tools, is what I would try.

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I wish that all of my favorite 3D animated movies were available as open movies. I just collected a few links about open movies:

Open content short films (all made with Blender) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_content_short_films

Open movies made with Blender: Big Buck Bunny Caminandes Cosmos Laundromat Elephants Dream Sintel Tears of Steel Ara;s Tale http://www.loramel.net/2012/07/aras-tale-production-files-available/

20 Open Source Movies You Can Edit and Redistribute for Free https://soosck.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/20-open-source-movies-edit-redistribute-free/

Open Source Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_film

List of Open content films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_content_films

Category Open Content Films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_content_films

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Free downloads related to exporting the Sims 2 characters into Blender:

SimPE (Sims Package Editor) download https://sims.ambertation.de/en/download/realdownload/

SimPE Mansions and Gardens (M&G) patch (includes the SimPE .smd exporter) http://www.simlogical.info/SimPE/SimpeMGUpdate/SimpeMGUpdate.htm

Sims2Pack Clean installer http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/index.php?page=3

Blender Source Tools add-on https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Blender_Source_Tools

Blender Source Tools github https://github.com/Artfunkel/BlenderSourceTools

Sims 2 bodyshop download (Sims 2 bodyshop also comes with the Sims 2 game) https://the-sims-2-body-shop.jaleco.com/download

Mod the Sims downloads http://modthesims.info/browse.php?f=38

[Hogarth-MMD]

How do we export the Sims 2 characters into Blender? This is a complex multi-stage process. Sorry, I have no tutorial about this to offer yet. Each Sims character in a Sims2Pack file consists of several package files. You need import these package files into SimPE and then export the parts of the character to .smd files from SimPE, and then import the .smd files into Blender using the Source Tools add-on. Before importing into Blender you need to correct the .smd files in a text editor. You need to get rid of all of the spaces at the ends of lines. That can be done by a find-and-replace operation in Notepad++, for example. I just spent hours trying to make a bug fix for the Blender .smd importer, but I have not succeeded in doing that.

[Hogarth-MMD]

In Sims 2 are 4728 animations. I would like to be able to export these animations to Blender and MMD, but as far as I can tell, there is no way to do that yet. SimPE cannot export them to any file format which can be imported into Blender.

list of 4728 Sims 2 animations http://modthesims.info/t/175604

http://simswiki.info/List_of_Animations/Base

Animation & ANIM Files (topic in the Mod the Sims forum) http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=428

Where are the Sims 2 animations located? They are located in a file called Sims00.package, which can be imported into SimPE. Here are 2 examples of file locations where you can find the Sims 2 animations:

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Sims3D\Sims00.package C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Double Deluxe\Base\TSData\Res\Sims3D\Sims00.package

Sims 3 animations location: Program Files(x86)/Electronic Arts/Sims 3/Game Data/Shared/Packages/fullbuild0.package

Sims 4 animations location: \Data\Client\ClientFullBuild0.package

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Here is what you can find in these other Sims 2 packages:

Sims00.package animations Sims01.package cinematic scenes and lighting Sims02.package materials definitions Sims03.package geometric data containers Sims04.package geometric nodes Sims05.package shapes Sims06.package shapes and texture images Sims07.package texture images Sims08.package large image files Sims09.package large image files Sims10.package large image files Sims11.package large image files Sims12.package large image files Sims13.package large image files

[Hogarth-MMD]

gamma correction code snippet:

import bpy

g = 1/2.2
bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode = "OBJECT")
for m in bpy.data.materials:
    m.diffuse_color[0] = m.diffuse_color[0]**g
    m.diffuse_color[1] = m.diffuse_color[1]**g
    m.diffuse_color[2] = m.diffuse_color[2]**g
bpy.context.scene.display_settings.display_device = 'None'

[nathanvasil]

Yeah, you can do that in a node as well-- that's exactly what you're doing when you specify that an image should be read as non-color data. (Interpreting it as color does degamma before lighting, raising data to the 2.2 power.)

Or you can run it through a separate RGB, raise to 1/2.2 power, and recombine RGB, same thing.

[Hogarth-MMD]

My gamma correction code snippet above may be flawed. In addition to the Blender diffuse color, there is also the mmd_tools diffuse and ambient colors, material changes which happen as a result of the mmd_tools convert model operator, cycles vs. Blender render differences. The sRGB color space, I think, is also somewhat more complicated than the simple formula being used above. Also I am not sure if there are any materials changes which happen when a model is exported from Blender.

[Hogarth-MMD]

Here are some more free bvh files, from the Second Life online game: http://static-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/avatar/bvh_files.zip

The link to this file is on this page of the Second Life wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Internal_Animations

The Second Life armature is using the same bone names as the DAZ/Poser armature, so its bones can be renamed using the Bones Renamer operator of mmd_tools_helper. The bvh files don't include eye bones or toe bones or finger bones.

[Hogarth-MMD]

There are many free Blender demo and test files which can be downloaded from here, including demo and test collections of .blend example files which are helpful for learning Blender:

https://download.blender.org/demo/

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VFX for directors. A collection of free files that you can use to learn and practice compositing and camera tracking. I downloaded these several years ago, but they are still available for download.

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/visual-effects-for-directors-sample-clips.html

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/green-screen-plates.html

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/tracking-plates.html

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VMDConverterGraphical (converts VMD files to CSV text files and CSV text files to VMD files) https://bowlroll.net/file/13705

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Download LipSynchloid lip sync plug-in (Windows dll) for MikuMikuMoving: https://bowlroll.net/file/29218

The download password (pakupaku) is posted in the topmost user comment on the download page. Someone else posted a comment saying that the password does not work, but it really does work. Javascript must be enabled in your web browser.

LipSynchloid video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWbeCqvj5c

https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22506025

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Links to tools for exporting from Sims 4 into Blender:

TS4 SimRipper - rip sims from savegames (Click on the Files tab to find the download links) "Meshes exported as Collada DAE can be imported into Blender."

https://modthesims.info/d/635720/ts4-simripper-rip-sims-from-savegames-v3-1-uploaded-10-20-2020.html

Tutorial: Using SimRipper meshes and textures in Blender - for Dummies https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=639931