Having decent characters available is a must for me, to help understand the various human interactions with various spaces, both while modelling and when sharing with colleagues and clients. However, I have lost count of the number of times I've had to hastily switch off the "people" layer in a model while sharing a scheme, simply because the current ArchiCAD "people" objects are so embarrassingly bad for today's standards - only a few useful poses, unrealistic postures, no children, etc. Are there any improvements to the people library on the horizon?
My ideal would be something like an improvement on the old "Woody" character from BIMstop. It has some pre-set poses and allows for repositioning joints to get a custom pose. However, it is very basic and doesn't allow changing the character's height and so on.
If we had a few slightly more realistic (but still fairly low poly) base characters (including children, elderly, tradespeople, etc.), with 3D nodes at the joints to allow positioning into a more realistic position, (cooking, opening a door, lying in bed, shaking hands, etc.) I would be over the moon! I'm not looking for Metahuman or Daz3D, just something that clients wont laugh at!
