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Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

Raycast / Ray-MMD is a powerful, complicated MME effect… … so much MORE than an “effect”! We have been getting MANY Comments from our readers about how to use Raycast and then, “Why doesn’t Raycast work?” The answer: Raycast / Ray-MMD doesn’t work like any effect you have ever tried, before. – Raycast is NOT…

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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
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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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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RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 2]

RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 2]

Welcome back to Part 2 of our project in which we will be helping Haku create “The Greatest Show of the Century” on a shoestring budget. However, it looks like since the last part, Haku has forgotten to pay her electric bill… RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 2] Seriously though, what we did and…

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RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 1]

RAY-MMD: Haku’s crazy light show [PART 1]

In this installment of our series on using RAY-MMD we are going to basically pull out all the stops and show you how to put on the “SHOW OF THE CENTURY“… well at least that’s the way Haku here wants to market her performance… But Haku, not being a big billing star with the funds…

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RAY-MMD: Spruce up your videos with Dynamic Lighting

RAY-MMD: Spruce up your videos with Dynamic Lighting

Did you know that RAY-MMD comes with a really neat set of lights that really work (as in that they really DO provide illumination)? These lights can be really important/helpful for re-creating many real world lighting situations. However, as with real lights, they are at their most awesome in dim lighting situations and in this…

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RAY-MMD: A method to get great results fast and easy!

RAY-MMD: A method to get great results fast and easy!

Reggie (this site’s owner) recently got a new Win10 PC and has been trying out RAY-MMD on it. He said that reading my previous tutorial on it was helpful but I could see he was struggling a bit. But that’s fine. RAY-MMD can be overwhelming to a newcomer (to the effect) and the last tutorial…

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    Reduce MMD Video File Size using FREE HandBrake video converter HandBrake video conversion
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    MMPlus, a New MMD Plugin! Animation Resource
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    MME CheapLens Effect controls the “Look” of your MMD video CheapLens Effect
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    Create/Export .x files in Blender 3 using PMXE (Blender 2.8+) Blender

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