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Welcome to LearnMMD.Com! – The Instruction Sheet you always wanted!

Miku Miku Dance, MikuMikuDance 7.39  is a freeware 3-D animation program that is fun … and complicated! The Basics are easy, but you will need to try all of the features and practice the moves before you have a product to be proud of.

This website: LearnMMD.com got started in July, 2011, because I could not find answers to the specific questions I had when I first began using Miku Miku Dance 7.39 . Right off the bat I had an Error Statement that would not let me open the program. I had to solve the problem before I could get started … and it took a bit of web searching and computer smarts to get it fixed. Here, in these pages, I have the answer for you.

Subscribe to the RSS Feed to get my latest updates … Check out the Download page to see what gifts I have for you … See the Bonus Pages for info that might not be linked to from other spots on my site.

Have fun with MikuMikuDance! Let’s Learn How to Do Everything!

 


Notes about the Author/Creator of LearnMMD.com:

I am Reggie Dentmore … [email protected] … a Graphic Designer, commercial printer, and a hard core Anime fan since the the early 1990’s. I have enjoyed everything from Iczer3, Dragon-Half, Tenchi Muyo, Gall-Force, Project Ako, Iria, and Ranma 1/2 through Haibane-Renmei, Azu-Manga Daioh, Hare & Guu and Gunslinger Girl. I have hundreds of VHS video tapes, Laserdiscs, and DVDs … and I have watched ’em all … some of them many times! (I just watched 1991’s Luna Varga yesterday (8/22/11) from an original factory VHS tape. I bought a nice used JVC S-VHS VCR from eBay last year so I’d have a good machine upon which to play my collection.) I also have a nice collection of Anime cels … about 70 of ’em … that are the original hand-painted pieces from the days before computers made that form of animation obsolete.

When I saw the “LIVE” performances of Hatsune Miku on the web I was amazed and excited to see more! That led me to YouTube and all of the various incarnations of Miku on the web.

The many MMD videos on YouTube are a gas! So many creative people, of all ages, from around the world making those simple (and some NOT so simple) animated videos.

I found that MMD is a freeware program available for instant download. I got the software and found that I had an error message when I tried to run it.I searched the web and found a couple of instances of misinformation before I stumbled across the solution: I needed to upgrade my DirectX software. After I finally found out how to do THAT, I was on my way!

The opening screen of MMD is daunting … an almost blank screen with only a technical looking coordinate grid and a huge number of buttons and drop-downs. Clicking around I found what I needed to get started but I had plenty of questions. I then went online to find info and tutorials … and I found that everything was spread all over everywhere in little pieces … much of it in Japanese … and some of it not very helpful.

The Miku Miku Dance software is complicated and I decided I needed to write things down as I discovered them … just to keep track of all of the intricacies. THAT”s when I had the idea for the LearnMMD website. LET’S ALL LEARN TOGETHER …

Let’s Learn How to Do Everything! …

eMail me with your ideas and comments … let me know how you are doing with Miku Miku Dance!

[email protected]

 

 

 

Comments (16) on “About”

  1. Celestial says:
    April 7, 2022 at 3:48 am

    Hello, I’ve been using MMD for over 2 yers now. About a few days ago i bought a new laptop and the manipulation panels got shrunken down. Any idea how to fix this?

    Reply
  2. NiTian ErXing says:
    February 27, 2022 at 5:50 am

    Hello. I have had several problems with the mmd, I have already downloaded everything that I have to download and install.

     First the problem about the mmsxshow file skipped me when rendering, I managed to fix that temporarily with the guide, but when I wanted to render a second time I couldn’t do it because the same error. It is not a question of space since my pc is completely new.

     After that, the mmd now seems not to want to work for me, every time I want to open a file it closes automatically but I don’t get any errors

    Reply
    1. KillerBeer says:
      February 27, 2022 at 3:13 pm

      That sounded awfully vague, could you provide more details of what kind of problem you had, what exactly did you attempt, and what has changed since then. Also, not to question your competence, but are you really sure you’ve *installed* everything that’s necessary and not just downloaded some files? If you have installed DirectX 9.0c, there must be about 20 d3dx9_XX.dll files in C:\Windows\System32, numbered from 24 to 43. If you’ve installed MS Visual C++ libraries properly, they must be listed in Apps&Features page of Windows 10 settings (Programs & Features in Windows 7 or prior). Please verify that both are in order before discussing anything else.

      Reply
  3. RubyMMD says:
    December 10, 2021 at 4:25 pm

    I need some major help. I made a model using the Pmd editor, and the head just completely falls off. I don’t know if its a joint issue or what exactly but I really want to get this model working. I’ve never made a custom model before this. I deleted the bones from the neck down on the original model as the outfit I was gonna use for the rest has the required bones, but now I can’t seem to get the head to stay on though all the bones are aligned properly from what I can tell.

    Reply
    1. RubyMMD says:
      December 10, 2021 at 9:42 pm

      Here is what I mean by the head keeps falling off

      Reply
      1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
        December 11, 2021 at 3:20 pm

        Hang in there… I am getting some help for you…

        — Reggie

        Reply
        1. RubyMMD says:
          December 11, 2021 at 6:42 pm

          Thank you, things recently changed where the model is concerned. Head has stopped rolling. Bones are working right, but the outfit won’t move. If you need anymore info, let me know and I would be happy to give it to you. :)

          Reply
          1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
            December 12, 2021 at 8:16 am

            I forwarded your info… looks like an ISSUE, all right!

            Reply
          2. Reggie_Dentmore says:
            December 12, 2021 at 7:36 pm

            I contacted our Mae Blythe… She said…

            Wowie zowie! It’s insane you figured out how to fix the head falling off!

            Thankfully, the issue with the outfit is much simpler. None of the vertices of the outfit are weighted to the bones. Weighting is a very finicky process from scratch.

            If you’re interested in learning weighting on your own, we have a very in depth tutorial on LearnMMD. https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/pmxe-weight-painting/

            However, that’s a lot of effort if you already have a copy of the outfit that is properly weighted.

            There is a weight transfer plugin. Here are two DeviantArt tutorials about it!
            https://www.deviantart.com/unluckycandyfox/art/MMD-PMX-Tutorial-Transfer-Weights-780678720

            https://www.deviantart.com/devious-bunny/art/PMX-Editor-Transferring-Weights-Plugin-529712257

            This may be a situation where you need to backtrack and start over. It’s entirely possible that if you had merged bones on import using PMXEditor, everything would have more or less came together.

            This is the latest and greatest version of PMXEditor (that I know of!) :
            https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/pmxe-0254f-a-newer-pmxe-in-english

            There will be some differences between it and the older tutorials, so it’s okay to find an older translated version on dA and see what works best for you!

            – Mae

            Reply
  4. star says:
    April 16, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Will PocketMQO be in iOS devices? Or in the App Store?

    Reply
    1. KillerBeer says:
      April 16, 2020 at 4:42 am

      That’s actually the question for the author, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Chances for that are rather illusory.

      Reply
  5. Mothra says:
    February 17, 2020 at 10:50 am

    i try to run MikuMikuDance but it keep saying this Eorror can you Please Help me

    Reply
    1. KillerBeer says:
      February 18, 2020 at 4:36 am

      Troubleshooting MMD errors and setting up

      Reply
  6. Melody says:
    November 28, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    I put a golden spa on my model and when I load it in raycast the golden spa disappears. I saw on one of your tutorials that says raycast doesn’t recognize spas. Then I tried to put material_smooth_gold.fx for a golden texture instead, but I didn’t like the color. I would like to know is their a way to make spas work in raycast or is their a way to edit material_smooth_gold.fx to the color I want. I know that I can edit in a notepad program, but I don’t really understand how to change the golden color in this file base of the words it has in the notepad program.

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  7. sven says:
    June 13, 2016 at 1:44 am

    if i want to start from scratch to learn how to work with this program, where do i begin?

    Reply
    1. KillerBeer says:
      June 13, 2016 at 3:41 am

      Try the Step-by-step Instructions banner on the right, for example.

      Reply

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