How can I make my own customized skydome? How can I animate a skydome? Can I change the size of my customized skydome? How do I make a skydome seem to fade away? Customized Skydomes replace stages… …and can enhance MMD animations As my video entry into LearnMMD’s “Video Dojo Expo 2”, this last December,…
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Create Animations WITHOUT Animating a model… … Lazy Boy’s Animation Guide Recently, someone on the LearnMMD team was bemoaning the fact that many MMD animators only animate the upper torso of models and that their legs were never touched. To which, at least two other team members, myself being one, responded by stating essentially, it…
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A couple of days ago, a fan of the Prinz Eugen character from the Azur Lane franchise wrote and asked a few interesting questions about how to set up nautical scenes in MMD which, after some thoughts, I felt were well worth answering. Specifically, they wanted to know how to set up battleship models in…
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NEW MMD 9.32 and 9.32×64… New Release! Latest Version of MikuMikuDance! … just released December 10th, 2019 What’s new? AS USUAL… we do not yet have any information about “what’s new?” As per each of the previous updates, there is no announcement and no list of changes. It is up to us MMDers to figure…
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What are the rules of TDA/Sour/YYB/Cham/Montecore models? What do these rules mean? How can I avoid breaking them? Rules of Common MMD Models… …and How to NOT Break Them TDA, Sour, YYB, Cham, and Montecore are some of the most popular model types people like to use for models, but some of their rules…
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Here is Part One… the first part in this 3-Part series… See Parts TWO and THREE… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 1 Revisiting Kelorin Town Kelorin town a fictious Showa period MMD town model by Japanese modeler Kelorin Jo BTA. It is one the most well known of the urban town stages…
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Here is Part TWO in this series… See Parts ONE and THREE… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 2 Setting up the Master Control System The Kelorin town model consists of the following modules: kr3_block_a.pmx kr3_block_b.pmx kr3_block_c.pmx kr3_block_d.pmx kr3_block_canal.pmx kr3_block_denchu.pmx kr3_block_outer.pmx Step 1: You will need a spreadsheet Using PMXE, open up each…
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Here is Part three… the final part in this series… See Parts ONE and TWO… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 3 Assembling the Town Model The Master Plan This is actually very simple but a little fiddly to set up initially. Once completed the plan will offer: A method to move and…
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Ray-MMD is one of the most popular MME shaders currently available. It also seems to be one of the hardest for many new users to MMD to get working. Part of the problem is that the effect comes with next to no beginner’s instructions and most of the tutorials on how to use the effect…
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Yes it’s almost that time of the year again and all the Halloween merchandise is on glorious display at COSCO. Right, I’ll admit a bought a large pack of variety candies but those are to fuel my sugar fixes, not to dole out to random kids. After all kids shouldn’t take candy from strangers; isn’t…
Using MMD and INKSCAPE to create comics One of the fun things to do with MMD is to make comics. The process is simple enough: Create a picture in MMD Add speech bubbles and text in a graphics application What this article will be about is how to make speech bubbles using an open source…
