How do I use Toon Shader? Where can I download Toon Shader? How can I add shaders to my MMD model? Hello everyone! Today I’m gonna show you how cool Toon Shader is. And how to use it! Toon Shader modifies shadows and highlights for a comic-book effect! So OK; first you need to download…
What is UV unwrapping? How can I unwrap models? How can I UV map MMD models? What is a projection map? How do I make textures for MMD models? Han can I use Blender to edit MMD models? UV unwrapping MMD models in Blender One of PMXE‘s most glaring deficiencies is its limited UV mapping. …
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The making of… My new “Arrow” MMD Animation and video! About six weeks ago I was listening to Melanie’s “Freedom Knows My Name” CD and the “Arrow” song caught my imagination… “Wouldn’t that make a nice MMD animation… a “Diva” song… for an MMD model to sing?” … ? The Process… I created the animation…
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How can I paint BDEF4? How can I paint weights in Blender? What tools are available for weight painting MMD models? Weight painting can be difficult and tedious– especially in an application like PMXE, which doesn’t have all of the tools of more professional 3D modelling packages. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you…
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Hey y’all! Today I’m going to show you a much asked question on my deviantART page: how in the Sam heck do I add emotion and depth to my picture? How To Add Depth and Emotion in an MMD Picture Let’s start off with models. Today I will be loading Oka Ruto by nyehnyehnyehmeow from…
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Hi everyone… MMD Quits after a few minutes? We are ON it! It might be that a recent Windows update is causing MMD to crash after a few minutes… … at least that’s what it seems like. The LearnMMD team is looking into it and we hope to have an answer for you soon. We…
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How do I import Daz models into MMD? How do I keep textures? How do I keep the bones? How to import Daz models into MMD… This tutorial was inspired by arisumatio. Okay, to make this as easy as possible I’m going to provide exactly what you need in order to get your Daz character into MMD. Links to…
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How do I use shaders to make photo-realistic renders in MMD? Can I make realistic-looking images in MikuMikuDance? What effects do I use to make realistic skin-tones in MMD? Almost Photo-realistic renders in MMD using Shaders and Effects NOTE: It is recommended that you click on the Haku images in this article to see the renders…
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Where can I download o_ShaderCustomSet_v0_3? How do I use o_ShaderCustomSet_v0_3? I load the o_ShaderCustomSet_v0_3 effect and nothing happens. o_ShaderCustomSet_v0_3 effect applies gentle color modification A reader emailed me a question about how to use the o_ShaderCustomSet_v0_3 effect. I had never seen it, before… so I did a search and found its source page. Wow! There…
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Why is the first frame of my new video scrambled? What causes that first frame of video to be full of static? Is there a fix for it? Why is it “sometimes” and not ALL the time? Scrambled first frame of video… … must be Voodoo! It drives me crazy when I “Render to AVI”,…
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Why do imported objects turn white? Why don’t imported accessories move right? How can I fix imported textures and bones in PMXE? Hi! Reggie forwarded me a few questions from readers having to do with some problems that people often have when starting to learn PMXE. One reader writes, When I load the finished model…
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