Here you have a fast tutorial for creating your own human models in a format that can be spawned in Gazebo7 without any problems.
You will use makehuman software and ROS Development Studio for showing all this.
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Hello, I am also working on a project including human model in gazebo9. I followed the steps you showed in the video. However, when I selected the ‘rendered’ button, my result was just white human model(no colors, just white human model only). I was wondering what I’ve done wrong. Can you let me know? I used MakeHuman 1.1.1 and blender 2.79 version.