For use in Visual Novels we'll eventually some ability to control other aspects of a character's expression including blush intensity, tear drops, sweat drops, etc.

This was stewing in my head for a while, but I feel it should be brought up, at least: Adding custom graphics to T-shirt fronts. For example, if you were to make a mascot character for Mannequin, if she's wearing a T-shirt, you could add an AR14 or Mannequin logo to that.

It would definitely have to use PNG files, since they can render transparent pixels, as well as JPEGs. It could open up a wide range of "fictional" cosmetic quality, from amateur (an obvious rectangle from a JPEG) to professional-level (a seamless PNG graphic) designs.

Not so much a suggestion, but aren't leggings supposed to go over tights? The software seems to do the opposite, rendering tights over leggings.

Are there any plans to create akimbo/crossed arms/etc. poses from this Standby pose?

I was doing some work with the program the other day and was trying to get some more facial expression.

So i found a few that i think i could be added if possible.

By the way love the updates.  Keep up the great work.

On the Male template: I'm finding that something about the neck feels off. It fits fine for a grown-up male, but something about it feels out-of-place when the character is meant to be of high-schooler age or younger?

Hello AR14,

Thank you for your time and effort in developing  this very useful tool.  I don't know if its difficult to implement but having another  angle view of the models would be nice and would vary the visuals.   For example  front view 0°  and a  45°  view... or maybe there is a way already and I am missing it.  I d' like to use a view that  changes  slightly when they speak .

Hi, I've been using this for a couple of weeks now and I think your tool is amazing! One thing I would love to see is the inclusion of different poses when batch exporting. All the characters I'm creating have a number of poses that they use and being able to have a list of poses that are exported (like expressions/hair/outfits) would be a great QoL improvement!

Hello again! Since I'm already in love with this software, I'll submit some ideas I got.

• Will it be possible to import our own default bases or to edit the current ones (the male and female bases), so we can directly add scars and details?
• Another things I'd like to know: do you plan on adding some mature details such as genitalia and nipples? It would be more realistic (I think). If it is not planned, my first idea would let us do it by ourselves by drawing it on the default base.
• It would be nice to have some more mouth expressions like sticking the tongue out. The possibility to have just one little teeth like the following picture would be cute, I guess...
• It would also be nice to have eyes with stars:

• Finally, do you plan on adding some side poses? (like in the following picture) Because I think it will be a bit monotonous if the characters are all always looking at us...

Thanks for reading all of this, and I obviously know that it's not possible to add most of this since you must already have a lot of work by correcting bugs and improving the software!

Created a funeral outfit out of the new 0.3.8 content, and I'm wondering if there are any upcoming plans to add more formal attire?

Edit: added image to post.

Just remembered that eye-shadow (the makeup) and "shadows-over-the-eyes" (as a character-design detail) existed.

The recent addition of multiple poses to Batch Export got me thinking about combining poses and facial expressions together. As the system stands now, Batch Export can result in about 1440 exported images based on combinations of outfits, hairstyles, expressions, and poses alone. By making poses into a component of a facial expression, that can potentially reduce the export load into a more manageable amount.

I hope I'm explaining this somewhat adequately.

Is there any plans to add CGs  of any sort. if not i think it would be a great addition, also chibi sprites might be cool to

Hello, apologies for disturbing you.

I wanted to know if there are any plans to perhaps add couple poses or group poses of any sort.

Thanks for reading :)

Have you given any thought to batch imports or command line arguments?

First off thank you for creating this! As a developer with zero artistic talent, I am very grateful.

I've taken a look at your file format and its well laid out. thank you for using JSON. it makes these assets easy to version with source control. I'd like to utilize your software as part of the build pipeline. to do this it would  have to handle a sort of batch import.

basically I'm requesting that it accepts a set of command line switches that would start the following workflow: 

1. launch the software
2. open a file (or all files in a directory), path from command line
3. run the batch export process. output location from command line
4. close the software and exit with a meaning full return code (i.e. non-zero if input file format was invalid, or an asset is missing, etc)

I understand this would probably require a desktop (i.e. its not going to run headless). But making sure that all a projects assets are up to date would be worth running this overnight.

Thank you for your time! and you are doing a great job!

Thank you for your work and the latest updates. Happy New Year!

Hi!

Just bough the sofware on steam, because I think it's a very good idea!

I saw that we will eventually be able to have curly hairs (can't wait to have that option to be honest)

Also, I was woundering if we will have the possibility to add facial hairs to the mens?

Like beards, mustaches? Thanks!

Roxy

Just started using it bc I'd love to make actual VNs someday. It feels like it's missing some things, though.

• More short/spiky hair styles for guys.
• Thicker eyebrows.
• More prominent noses; the noses just sort of seem to disappear into the face.
• The ability to change the color of the eye whites. I'm thinking of making some Chiss characters, and without the completely red eyes, it looks... off.
• The ability to change feature sizes right on the model. Messing with the counters is a real slog, and it doesn't even register half the time.
• Larger color pickers. I can't see what I'm doing half the time, even in full screen.

Still, what you guys have so far is great, and I'd love to see it go further!

Maybe this is actually already possible and I'm just not understanding the settings, but one feature I'd like to see would be to be able to copy other settings to all of your expressions besides for their colors.

For example, say you decide a character's eyes should be a little bigger, but you've already made a bunch of expressions for them. Going through each expression to adjust the size one by one, while not necessarily a difficult task, can be time consuming (especially if you have more expressions/characters to consider), but being able to copy the size settings the way we can colors would be able to cleanly get past that in one swoop.

Another thing that might be good to add would be different filters for outfits and such? As is, your average user might not think to click on "default library" to discover there are Christmas and Halloween options- What if, instead, the "default" actually included everything, and then you organized all of the clothes into smaller, separate libraries like the Christmas and Halloween ones already are?

Hello there! I just found out this software existed and I am extremely impressed so far! I downloaded the free version to give it a try and see if it will work for me, I'm mainly looking to use it for poses but also for some clothing. 

As I'm still on the fence about buying the full version, I'm wondering if it has more variety of both male and female poses?  That would sell this to me 100%, mainly more male poses. 

I was really hoping for a thoughtful hand on the chin pose and also a hand on the back of the head pose, as if scratching the back of the head (embarrassed and thoughtful type poses I really enjoy).  

Also, is it already implemented or would it be possible to add choosing each arm's pose individually?
That way, you could choose to have one hand on the hip, but the other raised to the chin. 

Under hair options, could I request  a shaven headed style or two, please? I thinking so we can do characters with shaven (but not entirely bald) heads, and styles with undercuts. So, like shaven sides and hair on top, swept to the side.

Also, I don't know how feasible this is, but could there be options for hair tip colours as an addition to  base colour? For example, a character with black hair, but the tips are red?

Request/Suggestion: "Remove" and "Reset" buttons for "Hairstyle" items

Currently, there are no quick way to remove something for hairstyle items, only for additional parts.
One complexity I would see if a hairstyle would not have a "None" default, like "Default hairstyle" has a "Bold" option instead.
However, for some items there is a clear "None" option.
It would be great to keep things consistent and have "Remove" button for hairstyle items, like "Beard", "Bangs", "Sideburns" etc that are non-essential and have a "None" option available.

Hello! First off, I want to say thank you for making this game! It’s exactly what I need because I’m not an artist at all so a character creator is what I need. And this one fits the bill. But there are some things I'd like you to add at some point down the road. Maybe some of these you were already planning. 

Spikey, Shonen esque hair options 

Medium or Long ponytails

Muscular male body type (Maybe a slightly muscular female type too for tomboy characters) 

Tube tops

The ability for characters to carry certain items in their hands (Swords or food items for examples)

Dress’s

Male Swimsuits

I really hope that you consider these for future updates! 

Skirts for the male model please!!!! (I have the steam version just for reference)

I would like to have some more variety of body-types for characters, as well as a slider for different stages of life (middle aged to old), since not every character will be a teenager...

does there happen to be any plans for alternate patterns for clothing, such as stripes for the vests or shirts or plaid for the blazer? I feel it would go a long way into giving the user more customizability over their character

Love this software from the UI to the functionality. What is a Mannequin Character file extension (without one, does not show in a linux directory due to filtering for the MCF), so have to use show all.

Thanks for the amazing product!

Please add boots. Like, any boots. Knee-high, small, with laces, rain boots, anything.

Awesome project! Are there any plans to add wrinkles and different body types to allow the creation of a greater variety of people?

Please add more control over the body, such as leg size, thighs, muscles...etc.

Hello, I'm trying yo buy it from steam but I'm having some problem with my paypal region & steam region, so I'm buying it from here but is there any way I can Buy it from here then Have it on steam too ?

Just found your program today and am very interested! (Will be purchasing full after leaving this message, just checked out free) I've struggled to find a generator for visual novel creation that allows variability in full body portraits. I saw your update about planning to do where you can change body position, arm position etc, separately and that really excites me! Fully behind the further development of this software as it is sorely needed for those of us who want to tell a story visually but don't have the artistic skills. Thank you for the hard work and quality product.

My suggestions would be making sure male and female parts are equal amounts and more fantasy options for clothes would be amazing! Like victorian style clothing~

Thanks again for your hard work!

Edit: just checked out your Trello and see plans for medieval clothing, yay!

Edit 2: Just checked out nightly version for latest. My request would be adding more dramatic poses, like injured or fighting/holding weapon, yelling dramatically/like slightly crouched and looking tense. Nothing totally specific in mind just to generally use in more dramatic scenes!

Great tool! Already enjoying it. I would love to use this for my games. I need a lot more options, though. Here's some suggestions/requests for new features/supporting stuff:

1. Body types and body diversity - I'd love to be able to further customize the body - from normal body diversity into more fantastic and extreme types and parts.

2. Fantasy clothing choices. (Specifically: Togas, Sandals, cotton and leather "adventurer" clothing.)

3. Short term - More Eye types  (squarish/sharp.) More Head and Body types. The body's fundamentals are critical for all the finer outfit parts.

4. Descriptive tooltips for items - Since so many paperdoll parts can seem similar to the user, perhaps short descriptions that explain differences in qualities would be really helpful. Tooltips should be everywhere.

5. For scale adjustments and other +/- adjustments - The ability to enter value manually. 

6. More basic skin color selections. don't be afraid to make that sub-window larger to accommodate. Perhaps an optional slider on each individual color to lighten and darken from that reference would be great (Sims 4 does this - it's pretty good at extending the basics)

7. Preserve eye color across expressions once set. I had to set eye color for each expression. Not sure if bug or feature.

First I will start by saying this is a wonderful tool, and I very much appreciate that it exists! Thank you for all the love and passion you've put into this creation.

Your most recent post in this topic was helpful for me as a new Mannequin user, as I had the same question about applying customized settings across all expressions. That's very useful to know.

I was really surprised to see a robust selection of poses with a variety of options available to choose from. I thought that was quite helpful to have built into the program. My suggestion, or request if you can call it that, would simply be asking about the possibility of adding some non-standing pose options in the future? This is really more of a "food for thought" kind of thing than a request necessarily.

My only other experience with this sort of thing is using VRoid Studio briefly, and for that program, you are able to export created characters to VRM format. I know of two particular software applications that can then be used with an exported VRM character to pose them in a specific way.

One is called VRM Automatic Photographing (https://matsuvr.booth.pm/items/2223918) and if I'm not mistaken it collects and uses freely available preset poses from other sources? The other is called VRM Doll Play (https://booth.pm/ja/items/1654585) and allows you to custom create your own poses manually by hand for your characters.

You already have just as many, if not more, standing pose variety options available in Mannequin, which is great! I just can't help but wonder if having others like sitting, kneeling, laying down, etc. sorts of poses might make things even more dynamic and interesting. But, I know when you start getting into the more unusual poses, things like physics/gravity start making it more difficult for clothing, accessories, etc. to translate over in a uniform way too.

I'm not sure which would be more difficult on the development side, either implementing additional poses for sitting/laying down/etc. like you already have available, or adding a VRM export option like the existing one for Inochi2D Creator (I'm guessing VRM is more meant for 3D models, so wouldn't really convert easily?) I tried looking into using Inochi2D Creator, but the options were overwhelming, and the complexity level seems to be beyond my current understanding. I was unable to use it at even a basic level. Alternatively, perhaps there is some other existing software similar to VRM Doll Play but that works with Mannequin characters that I'm unaware of?

At any rate, thanks for your time in reading all this, and for all the wonderful features you've already made for everyone!

Great tool, folks.  Thank you for putting it out.  I like how flexible it is regarding users making new elements for it if they're decent code wranglers, and how button monkeys like me can manually tweak their SVG exports in Inkscape to get any poses we want that haven't been officially implemented yet.
Two requests!
1 - The poses of the example characters shown at the main menu are a nice addition, but when the user 'Open This Sample' the default positioning of features / pose is booted up.  I can _kindof_ intuit how to go from Baseline Default to the example shown on the main menu, but it'd be illuminating to have the Sample load pre-calibrated for their more emotive positioning as initially seen.
2 - Do you guys know there's an "AR14GAMES" account on itch?  It looks super shady and has a 2022 link to "the demo version of Mannequin".  I haven't done a hash comparison or anything, but from the comments about it not running properly I'm guessing someone's using your title to push spyware/viruses.