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Tutorial-Blender

Export PMX as FBX for Clip Studio Modeler

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Convert the material to Blender, and export FBX with these options:

How to convert to MMD material

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If your material is using BSDF nodes or Emission, you can convert them into MMD shader (MMDShaderDev).

How to add transparency to material

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Adjust MMD Material > Alpha to add transparency.

Using Blender 2.83

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Here’s the versions that work on Blender 2.83.

Export PMX as FBX for Unity

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Convert to Blender (to embed textures into final FBX) Delete hierarchy of rigidbodies and joints Press little button next to the Translate (Global Tra...

SDEF in Blender

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SDEF is a different kind of skinning algorithm. Blender uses BDEF (bone deformation), but in MMD, you can use SDEF (spherical deformation).

Simple toon shader

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You should try this toon setup:

What to do when you can’t add metarig

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When adding metarig fails in MMD Tools Append, it’s always because bone names are wrong.

Screencast Keys

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I use Screencast Keys when I’m recording Blender tutorials.

What is NPR?

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NPR (aka toon shading) stands for Non-Photorealistic-Rendering.

How to get clean preview of UV

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You can disable overlay for one viewport while keeping the overlay for the other.

How to change start position of video

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If you imported the reference by drag&drop, there’s Offset under image property. Set it to whatever frame you want to start.

How to convert FBX into PMX

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There are many ways to convert FBX models into PMX. convert to VRM then use VRM2PMXConverter use MMD Tools to translate (you can use custom dictionary) ...

Recommended addons for Blender

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Here’s some I would recommend (all free): SIMPLE TABS (reorder tabs in properties panel) Extra Objects fSpy (easily setup scene camera) Sketchfab ...

Replicating MMD look in Blender

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For easy preview, you can use Workbench. Set lighting to Flat and color to Texture. You can also set View Transform to Standard.

How to fix warped legs of Rigify integrated MMD models

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You can fix the model in either PmxE or Blender.

Using MMD rigidbody physics in Blender

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This is how to enable MMD rigidbody physics in Blender:

How to use UV morphs

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UV morphs look like this:

How to make morphs usable in Blender

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Press Morph (Model Setup > Assembly) first, then control from Morph Tools by changing value.

Scaling models

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You can scale the model by scaling the empty (root object).

How to manually install addons

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In explorer, paste this to the address bar:

How to change clothes of models

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This is the method I use.

How to retopologize models

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3d model needs to have clean topology so that when rigged, vertices will move smoothly. Auto remeshers will make retopology easy. Blender has a built in reme...

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Tutorial-MMD

How to setup physics

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You should setup physics in PmxEditor, because changing values is easier.

How to save pose with facial

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MMD pose files (.vpd) don’t hold morph data (facials).

How to make MME

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There is a file called full.fx (MMD standard shader written in MME) which every MME effects are based on.

How to make scaling morph

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I use PMXE when making morphs, but you can only do movement and rotation with bone morphs.

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Tutorial-Other

How to remove alpha from textures

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Import the image to Krita and right click -> Alpha into Mask.

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