To all who had problems with crooked Fingers with the Rigify-Meta-Rig-for-MB-Lab add-on: I (finally) found the problem and I’ll write a fix in the next days.
You can fix this by hand for now:
(puns not intended)
Edit: Add-on has been updated. The crooked fingers should be fixed. Let’s cross fingers.
A big Thank you to all the folks working on this. I am truly sorry Manuel had to abandon this really awesome tool. I haven’t used the 2.8 version but it looks amazing. The 2.8 UI just doesn’t feel comfortable after so many years with the old controls but eventually I’ll convert. Regardless, I see all the hard work that is going into the development so again…thanks.
Hi…
Any idea why MB lab doesn’t recognize characters for proxy?.
Only way it does is by creating a new one but it wouldn’t detect an imported one.
Thanks
You did absolut the right steps .
You put in on Github for easy constribution and you saved one of the most valuable addons to get lost …
The results are great up to amazing.
It works in 2.8, even some months before release, mainly through community effort
and you raised the out of the box visual quality because its your primary passion.
It will take some time to understand the core and to find ways to extend it because of very special knowledge from Manuel. But i am sure it will be an success. Step by step.
I would simply ask Ton if he has some tips.
Think he has neverending experience.
And, why not open a Patron or other monetarisation and see what happens.
When you feel unconfortable it is ok.
But there will be hard problems to solve where noone has the knowledge or simply to document the code that others find easier access for constribution. You could pay dev time to solve this tasks and support Blender Foundation. No risks. Simply trying. Only progress.)
I do apologize for the lack of updates and replies, it has been a busy couple of weeks for me in the real world.
I am considering a Patreon account for support of a website, as web hosts are not cheap, for a couple of reasons. One reason is that Github packages up MB-Lab as ‘MB-Lab-1.7.3’ for example and Blender does not like periods in the package. This is one of the most common issues MB-Lab has, the first step to installing. I am keeping it on Github for dev purposes of course but to release it as a package on a website would help. The current website has a really long URL that is not memorable, so that too.
MB-Lab 1.7.4 is almost ready for release, the shaders have been changed and working on the texture maps now. Had to do some re-assigning of shaders to the eyes to make them fully procedural. Also fixed a startup bug that kept adding lights to files when they were deleted, the lighting setup by default is set to False now. Thinking of changing the lighting setup itself too, using area lights and updating the code as well. There was the idea of throwing an HDRI file in the project BUT that would just add more to the size of the project than be useful.
I appreciate the kind words from you all, keeps this project going 
MB-Lab 1.7.4 has been released.
This was a “silent” test release, I wanted to see some data go through Github before I made some announcement on Blenderartists.
Github doesn’t offer a whole lot of data related to traffic but it’s enough to gauge response on the internet. So far traffic has not increased as much as I would have expected but that’s ok. For being an experiment it did not go bad, update testing on the “Live” version went well on both my end as well other devs. So that’s cool!
The UV map has been unchanged and the eye maps are still in the repo, they don’t take up much space, so MB-Lab characters can still be exported for game engines if that is your purpose.
The skin also has procedural veins, though they had to be re-worked from my original version because the Overlay effect would interfere with the Skin complexion settings.
The skin “oil” has also been changed a bit, instead of it being there or not, it now gives the effect of being “slick” or “rough”, long story short I messed up the math in the shader so just worked it out this way because I simply couldn’t figure it out, besides humans naturally have oil on them all the time, this just makes it easier to make “super oily” skin.
The freckles now rely on a texture mask for visablity, though you will notice small freckles on the skin everywhere, the mask just brings the function out more in “whiter” areas. You can edit this map to you liking in Texture Paint mode.
The bump map has been edited to look better by default, the scalp doesn’t look like a massive burn scar and the eyebrow area has been changed as well so it looks more natural (even though the eyebrows are still painted on for now)
The sub dermal map has been scaled down, there is little need for detail just for an effect that is “below” the surface of the skin. This also reduced the file size quite a bit.
The GUI looks a little different now but nothing major but ideas are floating for future changes just not sure what or where just yet.
The lighting setup at startup has been set to False, this fixes a minor bug that added lights to scenes when you opened them up after saving. This was an irritation I agree.
The light arrangement has changed as well, using Area lights in a three point setup. Looks a little better I think. Word of warning is that if using EEVEE the lighting is a bit high, I am working on it for a fix.
This is a buggy release as of right now, I am sorry I thought I worked out everything 
, but we are trying to get bugs fixed, this weekend I am working on this eye shader issue.
Good job! Thank you!
…this weekend I am working on this eye shader issue…
BLESS YOU !!
Looking good… thanks for the updates.
I rendered the latest release with both the default lighting and a hdri from HDRI Haven, IMHO the hdri render looks a lot better!
The hdr I used Studio Small 03 - HDRI Haven
I have updated with 1.7.4b, when I create a human, it pop up an error report, then I reinstall with 1.7.3 , it doesn’t work either, I don’t know why ?
That is certainly a new one.
Did you update through the Auto-Updater?
Yes, I update through the Auto-Updater , and the error came out, I tried to come back to the old version, the Error Report is still there, I tried to download and install it, and the error report still there. My system is Linux Mint 19 , I don’t know if other people met the same problem.
Make sure you uninstall it from the add-on manager, and then restart blender to finally install one of the versions. Sometimes things gets mixed up when trying to install over the other one without removing and restarting…
I tried , it doesn’t work. And I tried with diferent version , 1.7.3,1.7.4,master, they all come out with error report.
What I would do is go to the Addon directory in your file system…
/home/user_name/.config/blender/2.80/scripts/addons/
and delete the MB-Lab directory and re-install. This will wipe out all the github data and you will start fresh. This SHOULD clear up this issue.
Thank you, it is ok now
Is that bug reported on the bug tracker?
Yes actually. Bug is still present too so who knows how long this will last.
