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KayLeek wrote: i need help on motion data
how do i use it
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reply back please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s the Long Answer about how to use Motion Data:
Wanna save motion data from your dance?
Let’s pretend you have the Sample Dance open and you want to have Rin doing the dance instead of Miku. You want to copy the motion data from Miku and paste it into Rin.
Use the Range-Select windows under the Frame Counter area.
Set the range for this dance as 0 – 800. See that All Frame is selected.
See that you have Miku Selected (not Camera/Light/Accessory)
Click the Range-Sel button. See that All the diamonds are red. Click COPY.
Now delete Miku. Load Rin. Click PASTE.
All of Miku’s diamonds now drop into place for Rin. Click PLAY and watch Rin do Miku’s dance.
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Want to Save a Motion Data file?
To save that dance motion as a file that you can use later:
After you have the Range selected … and the diamonds are Red … click COPY. That puts all of those diamonds into memory.
Now got to FILE and choose SAVE MOTION DATA. You will be asked to give it a name. Name it and click SAVE.
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Want to use a Motion Data File?
To use a motion file, FIRST go to the frame where you want to paste that file data. If you are aligned with Frame Zero … the data will start at Zero. If you are aligned with Frame 57 … that data will start at Frame 57.
Go to FILE and LOAD MOTION DATA. Pick the file you want. That’s it!
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You can download motion data files online … YouTube … Drop them into your USER folder inside the MOTION folder so that MMD can find it easily.
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Motion files have a .VMD extension. Pose Files have a .VPD extension. Pose Files work the same … except they are only a Single Frame. You make a pose file by highlighting the diamonds in a single frame … go to FILE and click SAVE POSE DATA. To use a pose file, go the frame you want, be sure the right character is selected … and click LOAD POSE FILE.
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Now you know everything! Have fun … keep asking questions!
Rim wrote: When I try to load stages and new models, they either don’t load, or do but no color, it’s all white, except for the shading and some random bits of colour… my new models don’t work?
I DO HAVE a fix for that …
What happens is that you are downloading models from Japanese sources … and their file names use Japanese characters. Your computer is substituting English gibberish for those Japanese characters.
The fix is to download some free software that lets you open a ZIP file, keeping those original file names intact.
Here’s my article about that problem: https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/opening-japanese-models-in-mikumikudance-7-39-sometimes-they-don%E2%80%99t-work/
Read my notes … click that orange link, there, to mikudance.info‘s HELP page … do everything, just right … and you will be in business. (You will like MikuDance.info! … plenty of models and accessories to download … updated often!)
Lemme know if you need more help with it.
SarahP wrote: How can I change the clothes on my models?
Using MMD, alone, you cannot change the clothes on your model. The models are designed as single units. They seem to have fabrics, belts, and chains that could be exchanged for other elements … but the models are actually only one piece. There is now software, just recently available in English, PMD Editor, that let’s you modify your models or even create a new one! Also called PMDE … PMD Editor is getting written-up in the pages of LearnMMD.com. Check it out!
BigS Writes:
Hey, I’m kind of new to MikuMiku Dance and I just have a few questions that I could not find on your (totally awesome) site. Btw, thanks for making your site, it helped alot.
Thanks for asking! Yup … that’s a lot of questions … Here are my answers.
#1 Submit a frame? … I guess that’d be Register the pose in that frame … Every time you move a bone you want to click the Register button in the dark blue Bone Manipulation area under the lower left of the Stage Screen. What I do, that also works well, is just hold your left hand over the Enter key on the keyboard. Every time you move a bone, click Enter … that’s another way to Register the bone. If you move a bunch of bones and THEN decide to Register, you can click on one of the diamonds in that frame and then click V-Sel … Vertical Select … to highlight all of the bones in that frame … and then click that Register button in the blue Bone Manipulation area to catch ’em all.
ALSO … as you move bones in a frame and you want to “undo” … just advance the frame counter a click and every not-registered bone snaps back into its old position.
#2 Move a character without bending their legs … You will find that the two Leg IK bones and the Center bone are the main bones that you will use to move your models around the stage. In the Brown bone chart on the far left of the Frames area, Click the +IK to show all of the IK bones. Click on Leg-IK R and Leg-IK L … hold down the Shift key while you do it so that BOTH are selected at the same time. Still holding Shift, click on Center at the top of the list … so now you have the two Leg IK and the Center bone all selected. NOW you can use the Red/Green/Blue rollers in the bottom right of the stage screen to move your character anywhere you want to.
Another way to select the right bones for moving the entire character is to use the BOX-SEL button in that blue Bone Manipulation area. Now you can drag a box around the character to select every bone in the entire model. Be sure to include everything so that no part is outside the box. You know you have done it correctly when you see the Red/Green/Blue rollers light up. Now roll those rollers to scoot your model wherever you want it.
#3 Download another stage or something … Easy! What you are looking for are called MMD Accessories. Search the web for MMD Accessory Download and you will find a bunch of them that people have made available for you to use. You are looking for files that have a “.x” file extension. Look inside the MMD program folder and see the USER folder … inside that is the Accessory folder … put your new items into that folder … note that all of the accessories have that .x file extension.
You can also make your own new accessories … stages … props … using Google SketchUp … Read the articles on my LearnMMD.com site to learn about that.
When you use an accessory, you can attach it to the Ground, to some part of your character, or to a dummy bone, which lets you manipulate the part as if it was another character. Again … Read about dummy bones on LearnMMD.com .
#4 Adding music. There are 2 ways to add music: 1.) “After the fact” by using a movie editing software that lets you blend your video with your separate soundtrack … or 2.) Adding music directly into your MikuMikuDance by going to the FILE menu and clicking Load WAV File. To do that, your music has to be saved in a WAV format … has the file extension “.wav”. You can’t use an mp3 file … it has to be wav. Again … if you don’t have software to convert your music files into a wav format … search the web for some freeware to do it for you. I went through this, myself in October, 2011, and I found a FREE program called AUDACITY 1.3 that I like. ALSO … like with the accessories, people on the web have WAV files that you can download … search LeekSpin Polkka wav or MMD wav music and see what you find. In my DOWNLOAD page on LearnMMD.com I have a link to a page that has the Ieaven Polkka (the LeekSpin Polkka) WAV for free download.
Once you have a wav file, drop that file into your MMD program file … inside the WAVE folder in your USERS folder … so that you and MMD can both find it. Then you have those WAV options in the file menu. Go to LearnMMD.com … to my File Menu write-up and you can read about how to use those options.
#5 Make Ren Walk, not Neru … Easy! You want to use the Range Select windows under the Frame area. Take a look at the walking motion and determine how many frames are used … what’s the last frame with any data in it? Enter that number into the Range-Sel window. Let’s call it 0 – 450 . See that “All Frame” is showing, there, so that when you click Range-Sel all of the frame data will be selected. (Take a look at the other options and see that you can select a range for any one bone or for all of only the facial movements and etc.) Click Range-Sel and see that all of the Diamonds have turned red … they are selected. Now click COPY to put those diamonds into memory. Now you can DELETE Neru and LOAD Ren. Be sure that the frame counter is at Zero because we are going to PASTE the data into the current frame. See Ren snap into the new Frame Zero position. Click PLAY and watch Ren do the walk.
Range Select is a powerful tool that lets you copy all kinds of motions. Following these same steps is how you can save motion data on your own. You use Range-Sel, Click COPY and then go to FILE and click SAVE MOTION DATA … and MMD lets you save that data as a file that you can reload into another character whenever you want. Easy and fun!
There you go! — Reggie
Josh wrote: I found your page while searching the web for help
with MikuMikuDance. Thank you for your page. I just downloaded MikuMikuDance 7.39 and I did not have the missing file error that you write about. My MMD opened and seems to run just fine. Is that a problem??
HI Josh! That is good news that your MMD is running fine. I think the Missing File Error will happen to people, like me, who are running older computers. Have fun with it! Let me know when you Post a Video to YouTube!
KikiKiki wrote: I can’t get my model to talk in time to the music.
Practice … practice!
I am working to make a model “speak” in sync with the Ievan Polkka. No luck yet! One trick to creating a good lip-flapping motion might be to use only one “Mouse” move at a time. I played back the Sample dance frame-by-frame while keeping an eye on the Mouse panel. I advance the frame to a Diamond in the Facial row and then I click through the various Mouse selections to see which ones are activated and by how much. Doing so, I find that only one attribute is activated at a time in that Sample dance.
If you can load your music as a WAV file, you will be able to see the music on the oscilloscope. I find that the view is too complicated to see much more than the beat of the song. Trying to time mouse moves to the music by matching the mouth action to the visual waves on the screen doesn’t look to be possible. You can click “Play WAV with Frame” in the FILE Menu and then you can here the sound made in each frame. Play a short section with PLAY and then click through those frames one at a time and here the tune almost note by note. That may help you to sync the mouth to the music.
One trick I am trying to exploit is the idea of narrowing the PLAY frame range to only the part of the song I am trying to “mouth”. On my Polkka, the Voice starts at frame 500. I set the Play Range as 500 – 550. Then I repeatedly PLAY the animation for just that 50 frames and adjust the mouth settings until I am happy with the result. Then … set the Play range as 550 – 600, and work on just that next little section.
ALSO … I find that when I click PLAY … the animation skips some of the fast movements that I built into it. Almost like a blur, the mouth averages the tight shapes that I registered. I output a test to AVI and played it as a video and it looks like all of my movements ARE in the video. SOOO … what you see on your screen in MMD during PLAY is not as sharp as what you will see after your animation is rendered to AVI. That makes it tough! You just have to register the frames and know they are there, even when you can’t really see them during Play on MMD.
Good luck! … It is all just experience gained through practice.
Crystal wrote: What’s the best way to Render TO AVI? There are so many choices.
Hi Crystal! Thank you for writing! I use the Cinepak Codec by Radius option as my AVI file. If you are planning to edit your video in another program, you should save the AVI as RAW AVI. That creates a huge file that gives your editing program the cleanest images and the best chance for success. I will write more about the video aspect of MMD as I get deeper into it. I have saved your email and I will reply to you when I have a better answer.
SarahP wrote: How can I change the clothes on my models?
Using MMD, alone, you cannot change the clothes on your model. The models are designed as single units. They seem to have fabrics, belts, and chains that could be exchanged for other elements … but the models are actually only one piece. There is now software, just recently available in English, PMD Editor, that let’s you modify your models or even create a new one! Also called PMDE … PMD Editor is getting written-up in the pages of LearnMMD.com. Check it out!
Send Reggie an email to get your questions answered:
I have to make legs IK bones (you know, to move the legs up and down like a human. Every model have that). My model has been converted from Source FilmMaker (SFM) to MMD (.pmd), and doesn’t have legs bones. So I would like to make ones. Can you do a tutorial with pictures (short, it doesn’t matter, I know you’re busy) please ? I search everywhere, nobody explain that…
Thanks a lot if you reply !
Excuse me but… i have a problem with MMD and MME, the MMD 9.26 work great and normal… but when i try to install the MME and open the MMD it doesnt let me do nothing and a message got in the window; “Initialize error: failed to load default effect file. please check video card capability” and next that the MMD close. i dont know what to do… could you please help me? o someone please?
First, make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c runtime, *regardless* of whether there’s a higher version installed: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429 . If that does not solve your problem… well, *what* is your video card capability? Maybe it’s just too weak to run MMD?
Hey reggie!
i really like ur blogs
but i want to ask u
how can i use pmotskin?
im having a super hard time trying to figure out how to use it
i try to find the tutorial on the effect
but i cant atleast find 1
pls help me
We have a pmothair article… I wonder if the skin works the same … ? … let me know if that helps, or not… we can find answers! https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/pmothair-effect-makes-hair-actually-look-like-hair/
Hey Reggie! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog.. thing. but with the effects I couldn’t figure out how to actually… use them. I was wondering if you could help? maybe? thanks!
Hi Amber… that’s a question requiring more questions… Send me another email and tell me which effects you’d like to use… maybe I can help you. Different effects require different methods.
Okay… This will get weird for a second: How do I get my model to take HIS shirt off while the camera is still recording him? And if there’s no way to get him to take his shirt off then how can I “mimic” the action so it looks like his shirt is coming off? It isn’t for anything rude. I’m thinking about turning this drawn up video into an MMD but in it the guy takes his shirt off. I’ve looked everywhere but, unless it’s hiding in the dark somewhere, all I’ve gotten are shots of when the male is dressed and then it flips frame to someone else before going back to him, shirtless. Please tell me I’m not the only one wanting to know about this?
Please please please please please answer!!!!! It would be a lifesaver if you did!! And thank you for all the help so far!
You will find that a shirt is not a “shirt”… your model is designed to look like it is wearing a shirt… or to look like it is not wearing a shirt. The shirt, itself, is not normally a model. You might be able to rig a shirt with bones… ? … I have never seen it done. It reminds me of The Matrix… “There IS no spoon”… There is no shirt, as such.
I am sending you an email… maybe we can find some answer that works for you.
How do I use the MentalRay Shader effect?
Help me pleaseee
It’s loaded like any other shader. Click on the MMEffect button. Select effect mapping. Click on the model’s name; select the .fx effect file and click the OK button.
I have been using MMD for a bit, and now, it just opens and closes. It flashes “(Not Repsonding)” over and over again, and it’s so bad that I can’t even select a model or make motions. If I even click it gets worse. I tried uninstalling it five times, and I even uninstalled my antivirus software and installed in again. Nothing works. I’ve tried seeing if other people had my problem, but I didn’t see anything. I don’t know what to do now. It does this with all versions. Help!
How do I make MMD compatible with Windows10?
Its says that the side by side configuration is incorrect.
Search LearnMMD.com for: configuration … much is written about that error message.
There is no config file
i would llike to change the output render settings
its locked at 640 480
help plz
Under VIEW… Screen Size… enter the number of pixels you want to see.
Whenever I put a model inside of pmx view it’s either white or the skin texture may appear and not the eyes..
I read somewhere that you had to put all of the textures in the same folder?
I think I’ve done this but still my character’s are blank..
I’m not sure if you answered this question before so please forgive me.
The model’s file names, the texture file names, may be scrambled… not in English. We have an article about unzipping your model zips using microsoft Applocale and 7-ZIp…
https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/opening-japanese-models-in-mikumikudance-7-39-sometimes-they-don%E2%80%99t-work/
Hello,
I been having a error.
When I load or about to open for example
a New model
I can’t find the Userfile.
Instead it in the documents.
Is there a way to fix this? I want to open my model in the Userfile: Models Folder.
Don’t use OPEN to open a model. Use the LOAD button in the lower left Model Manipulation panel. A pop-up window opens letting you navigate to your model’s location. The original models are inside the Model folder inside the UserFile folder inside your main MMD folder. … You say you are taken to your Documents folder… from there, navigate to your Desktop, and your MMD folder… and then into the UsersFile folder… Got it? Glad to help!
I cant seem to render my files in any avi rendering programs listed in 9.26 or 8.10 and i am able to in 7.39 so im confused why it wont work. It says that it cant read the MMDxShow->dll because its not in the data file, but I checked and it was there every time i downloaded it.
It says to update to the latest version on both 9.26 and 8.10
MMD gets updated sometimes… some of our info gets “old”… but it still applies. Today, MMD 9.26 is the latest version. You can might try MMD 8.10 if 9.26 doesn’t run for you… or get 8.10 just to get the first generation Luka 1.0 model.
Much is written about the MMDxShow issue. Please use the Search window to search for your answer. The comments at the end of the articles have good info, too. … or send me an email with specific details and I will do my best to answer. [email protected]
I need help with two problems.
1. I don’t know what wrong with my laptop. When I load certain models, my MMD immediately crashes. I don’t know if it has something to do with their physics or something because even if I delete all their physics, they still crash MMD. They only seem to work on MMD 7.39, which doesn’t make any sense since they worked on newer MMD programs on my other computer.
2. I can’t load MMD 9.26 no matter how many times I click it. It was working fine before. It has nothing to do with the DLL error, because I can run 9.24 just fine.
Hi Jun! The reason why some model’s may or may not load might have to do with something conflicting in your computer. If you are using Windows, which is based on “share files”, it may not allow the model to load due to the fact that the model might crash a programe on your computer. Also, you might not have the right driver or software to run the model (As older versions of MMD sometimes can’t load newer models.) As for you not being able to download the latest version of MMD, well… that’s easy! On this website, it says that if you are using Windows 7 or below you will have to download this extra file so the programe can work. If your using Windows 8 or Mac then it’s probably something conflicting in your computer. Hope this helped! Cheers ~ Angie ~
Hello– I can’t seem to open the MMD files? I tried re-downloading all of the different versions to see if they would work but.. messages came up saying either that the program can’t find d3dx9_32.dll or that its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. I’ve tried downloading C++ 2010 and Windows Essential but nothing seems to work? Not even the oldest version..
Try the DirectX update shown on our Downloads page. It is old and your new computer may say that newer versions are already installed… but MMD needs this DirectX 9c update. … Try that… and send me an email if you still need help: [email protected]
HELLO PEOPLE! i have a few questions!
1) Whenever i load something in the accessory slot… I CAN’T RESIZE IT! It’s always to big or small! Please help!
2) How do you make an accessory stay in a model’s hand? For example, if i wanted Miku to hold a mic while dancing po pi po, how does the mic stay in her hand for the whole song?
Thanks!
The answers to your questions are in the AMP… The Accessory Manipulation Panel. You can attach that microphone to Miku’s wrist… or whichever bone you like. The Si number is the Size… 1.0 is full size… smaller numbers make your accessory smaller … like 0.8 “Decimal numbers are your friends.”
https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/get-a-grip-more-on-accessory-manipulation-in-mikumikudance7-39/
Hello whenever I move any type of model or accessory file into the user file the file folder does not show up, Is there anyway that I can make them(the folders) show up so I dont have to keep on going back and forth to my computers main files to obtain what can be found easily?
I am not sure of your issue. If you drop files and folders into your User folder, they should be there. While you have the User folder open, you will see the various folders in it. If you always keep your models in the Model folder, MMD will always look in there when you try to load a model… but you can always navigate your way to wherever you have saved your model. … yes?
i need help
Brianna… I am sending you an email… let’s get you going!