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MMD Rotating Objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)

MMD Rotating Objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)

MMD Rotating objects 360-degrees… Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy – Animating the Earth and the Moon (Part 2) In Part One, we downloaded our planets and prepped the objects to be rotated… loaded our object into PMXE and centered-up the center-bone and added a Motherbone. Here, in Part Two, we will animate MMD rotating objects…

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Making Smooth Motions
Animate MMD ballet pirouette motion

Animate MMD ballet pirouette motion

Over the last few years several people have asked me how to animate an MMD ballet pirouette motion sequence. Now to be totally honest, although I know how to spin a MMD model through a complete 360 degree cycle, I know next to nothing about ballet. So, this article will make up for my past…

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Creating Motions
Ray-MMD: The Art of painting with Light

Ray-MMD: The Art of painting with Light

Natural sunlight as interpreted by MMD is not white light. MMD by default uses a neutral grey light which emulates the photographic standard of mid-day sunlight in a temperate climate. But why is this important? If your objective is to create photo-real images using MMD, this is of paramount importance, especially when used in conjunction…

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Ray-MMD Advanced Lighting: A Night on the Town

Ray-MMD Advanced Lighting: A Night on the Town

  Ray-MMD Advanced Lighting: A Night on the Town You sometimes see urban scenes of Tokyo at night in Japanese anime with a plethora of lights from different sources, office building, street signage and the like as in the image shown below. Tokyo street at night. Image source: www.japan-guide.com. Image re-used here for non-commercial, illustrative…

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RAY-MMD: Creating your own custom sky box

RAY-MMD: Creating your own custom sky box

RAY-MMD comes with a nice set of ready to use sky boxes, but did you know you can create your own? RAY-MMD: Creating your own custom sky box But before we get to the “how to“, let me briefly explain “why” you would want to do this. The answer simply is because custom RAY-MMD skyboxes…

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RAY-MMD: Using the Time of Night skybox

RAY-MMD: Using the Time of Night skybox

Someone wrote asking about how to use the Time of Night sky box that comes as standard with RAY-MMD; so this is what this article will be about. In fact, RAY-MMD comes also with the SKY NIGHT sky box for rendering night time scenes. However, the two have rather different applications and it really helps…

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RAY-MMD demonstration featuring texture and environmental lighting

RAY-MMD demonstration featuring texture and environmental lighting

RAY-MMD and the original Miku Append… A RAY-MMD demonstration featuring texture and environmental lighting Nowadays, we can see plenty of Tda style edits rendered beautifully in videos on YouTube and NicoNico using RAY-MMD, but you hardly ever see the original Miku Append model treated in a similar manner. Well, that is understandable since that model…

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MME Effects Tutorials
Build Accessories and Stages with PMXE Primitives

Build Accessories and Stages with PMXE Primitives

A New Table for SeeU… YES, YOU CAN BUILD MODELS WITH THE PMXeditor Build Accessories and Stages with PMXE Primitives Our heroine SeeU, wanted a new table. Not being happy with the selection available at IKEA and being too snooty for Walmart, she decided to order one built specially to match her attire. Plus being…

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Make your own Accessories
Ray-MMD Localized Fog Effects for stunning MMD scenes

Ray-MMD Localized Fog Effects for stunning MMD scenes

RAY-MMD: Lost in the Fog RAY-MMD has some powerful and versatile fog effects which can all be leveraged to create emotive and atmospheric scenes. This article will briefly show you how to utilize some of these effects to enhance your projects. As with our previous articles on this effect, this one will also take a…

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MMD Tutorials
Using the OP function in an animation

Using the OP function in an animation

I wrote a tutorial awhile back on using the OP function to allow MMD character models to easily hold objects. However, it only briefly touched upon how to use this function in an animated sequence. This has caused some confusion as the process is not intuitive. This article will show you exactly what needs to…

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RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 3]

RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 3]

We are on the last stretch of this 3 part series. This will be “challenging” so be warned. RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 3] First load the StageLight.pmx model from our Articulated Stage Light set. This model will have to be loaded 4 separate times but we will only describe the first installation. Word…

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