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Understanding PMXE Materials: Ambient, Diffuse, Specular, Reflect and More!

Understanding PMXE Materials: Ambient, Diffuse, Specular, Reflect and More!

What are PMXE materials? What is ambient, diffuse, and specular? Where can I find PMXE materials settings? How can I change the color of my PMX model? MMD uses lots of PMXE materials settings– maybe too many. It can be hard to figure some of them out. Maybe Teto and I can help? Ambient and…

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Use the PMXE Transform Window to edit your MMD models!

Use the PMXE Transform Window to edit your MMD models!

How can I edit models?  How can I make my selfie model for MMD? What is the PMXE transform screen? How do I use PMXE to make a model for MMD? How do I add parts to my MMD model? PMXE comes with a powerful tool in its transform window. Hopefully, you’re familiar with it…

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A better MMD followcam in PMXE with physics and IK bones

A better MMD followcam in PMXE with physics and IK bones

How can I control the camera in MMD? How can I make an MMD followcam?  What can I use IK bones for? How to make IK bones? What is follow cam?  What is OP? What is camera tracking? How can I follow a model in MMD? Have you played with outside parent settings yet? What…

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Making MMD Textures with Blender

Making MMD Textures with Blender

  How do I make MMD textures? How do I use Blender? How do I use MMDTools? How do I make better textures? How do I start with Blender in MMD? Making MMD Textures with Blender PMXE is a great program for making minor edits to MMD models. And it’s a great introduction to 3D…

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Understanding Normals

Understanding Normals

What are normals? What are normal maps? How can I use normal maps in MMD? How can I fix my normals? How do I make hard edges in MMD? How do I make normal maps? How can I modify normal maps? What are normals? A normal is the line that extends out orthogonally from a…

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Public Domain and Ethical Release for MMD

Public Domain and Ethical Release for MMD

What are ethics?  What is public domain?  How should I release an MMD model?  What are MMD rules?  How can I release to the public domain? If you’ve been following along with LearnMMD for a while now, you’re probably familiar with its Keep the Faith series, encouraging you to behave in a manner that supports…

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Everything you never wanted to know about textures

Everything you never wanted to know about textures

What are textures? What is UV? What is RGBA? What is alpha? What are blend modes? What are clamped textures? How do sphere maps work? How can I make models shiny? What is sph? What is spa? Textures are the two dimensional images that MMD (and other 3D renderers) paste over your three-dimensional object. Well,…

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Rigging Models with Appends using PMXEditor

Rigging Models with Appends using PMXEditor

How can I use PMXE to create new bones in my MMD model? What is Rigging? What are “bones” in PMXE? How do I make eye bones? What does the PMXE append field do? How can I make my MikuMikuDance model easier to use? RIGGING WITH APPENDS– AND KASANE TETO! In the world of professional…

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