ShiVa assumes an animation framerate of 60 fps, but 30 will work too if you want to save some space. Every animation must be exported separately. When you are finished customizing an animation, you can export it to FBX. Most of these animations can be customized for speed, number of frames, position of arms and legs, as well as overall amplitude. Once you are satisfied with your rig, you can choose an animation from the panel on the left. If you made a mistake and your mesh gets distorted too much, just re-upload your character again and change the position of the markers.
Once the rigger has finished, take a good look at the critical sections of the mesh, like elbows, the neck, feet and armpits for distortions. Once the website has loaded, you need to upload your OBJ, after which you will be taken to the auto rigger tool, where you drag markers for the most important joints onto your mesh. Log into the Mixamo website with your Adobe ID. The exported OBJ has all its body parts in separate meshes, which is very helpful for assigning materials, however it is not rigged, meaning it has no skeleton that is assigned to the mesh.
All your textures will be saved in separate files, which makes it easy to recreate the materials in ShiVa later. Since the upload button does not work any more, you have to export your character as an OBJ file. Like in the CC version, you can change proportions, textures, colors, etc., before uploading your work to Mixamo. Apart from the upload button to the now-defunct Mixamo Company website, the tool still works fine though and even sports a few extra features compared to the CC variant. Development on this version seems to have stopped around the time that Mixamo was acquired by Adobe in 2015. Luckily, there is an old version of the software available for free on Steam. However, I suspect that not every developer has an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. If you are an Adobe Creative Cloud customer, you can choose it right from your CC Launcher.
There are several to choose from, like MakeHuman, or Fuse, which are both free. All humanoid characters are constructed quite similarly, with heads, torsos, limbs, and clothes, so in order to save development time, we will use a character creator tool as a base.
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