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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 just finished a model i made on pmx editor and want to start editing it on mmd, but it seems like everytime i made the model using a long sleeve, the model’ outfit is just not on right position when its showing on mmd.. is there something that i can do with it?
When you imported the top that has long sleeves, did you choose to merge bones?
– Mae
i didn’t :c
Try again, but merge the bones when you import :)
– Mae
Hello, I had pmx before, but I updated my laptop and now it is windows 10,
my problems is, I installed EVERYTHING, but when I open the app it gives me an alert “Failed to initialize Direct3D-D3DERR_INVALIDCALL: Invalid call
(-2005530516)
and when I close it it just opens a tab for me.
Please if someone can solve it it would be my salvation
I am sorry if it is not well understood I speak Spanish and I translated it by google ; -;
Have you installed DirectX yet? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
I already solved it, uninstalled it and reinstalled it but not from the microsof page but from another one that I saw on youtube, god I’m so happy, also thanks for responding. kisses <3 <3 <3
I already solved it, uninstalled it and reinstalled it but not from the microsoft page but from another one that I saw on youtube, god I’m so happy, also thanks for responding. kisses <3 <3 <3
Io sono nuova su MMD e ho dei problemi. Io ho Windows 10 pro e non mi lascia installare Miku Miku Dance, e mi dice che c’è un errore nel codice.
— Google Translate:
I’m new to MMD and I’m having problems. I have Windows 10 pro and it won’t let me install Miku Miku Dance, and it tells me there is an error in the code.
What is the actual error message… what does it say?
Error messages often DO tell you what the error is.
Hey umm I’m new to MMD! I read some articles about it and then started editing. I’m a fast learner though hehee. So here I was editing on MMD. At first, it was ok, MMD worked out pretty well! I’ve been editing MMD videos today (just this day because this is the day that I thought about editing something hahahaha). I was editing videos for a WHOLE day! On the first video, it worked pretty well. On the second, still worked pretty well. but in the third…..that was the time that something went wrong. I clicked to file, clicked the load WAV file, and clicked a WAV file I want. Somehow, nothing pops up. There’s no music. I tried it again but still doesn’t work. I clicked file, then new, tried loading the WAV file, but it still didn’t work. I closed the application, and resfreshed my laptop, still didn’t work. I restarted my Laptop, still didn’t. I thought about turning on my wifi, maybe if there’s wifi, it’ll load, but it still didn’t. I decided to use other WAV files it didn’t load, even the ones that I used to the previous videos I edited. Please help me! I don’t know what to do anymore! What should I do?
Also, I got another question.
What should I do to open PMXE?
I’ve downloaded everything that is needed but I still can’t open it. Until I saw the part that I still need to extract the file to get the application. But somehow, I can’t. I right clicked the file once to go to the properties to unblock the file, then went back to extract it. Sadly, there is no extract button. I can see an extract button when I do it to other files but none to the PMXE. I tried to double click it, like the video I saw on youtube that the person double clicked the file, then it opened and clicked the big extract button on the second to the left topmost. But on my laptop, the file didn’t open. Instead something popped up and said “How do you want to open this file?”. I tried everything that is listed on the options but still cant open it.
Please help! What should I do? I really wanna create a model of my own idea! Plleeeeaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeee
The “extract” issue… Try downloading and using the free Bandizip software… It easily opens all kind of ZIP and RAR folders without messing-up Japanese unicode.
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Your WAV issue, I got no idea… I wonder what changed?
I have recently run into a problem when it comes to playing avi files on mmd, for some reason mmd stops playing the avi file around 5000 frames and gives the cannot open avi file error. I have tried to reconvert the file incase of it being corrupted halfway but the problem presists.
I’m sorry if this is not the place to ask but I’m at my wits end! I’m trying to find a tutorial on how to make clothes more with my model’s breasts because they sink to the bottom of the shirt when loaded up. Any advice would be really appreciated and thank you for your time helping everyone on mmd!
Sorry I meant move. Could you use a Luka mmd model as an example to explain?
I assume you mean that the breasts move and the shirt doesn’t?
If you don’t need the physics, you can disable it by going into the rigid body tab in PMXE and changing the breast bodies into bone mode
If you want to keep the physics, you should try to weight the shirt to the same bone the breast is rigged to.
I will try that, thank you!
Can’t open MMD, it says “the application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect”, what can i do to fix this?
Install MS C++ Redistributables.
Hey, I’m new to MMD, and I download this models, but I can’t see them. I see the bones but thats it. How do I make it show all of the model?
You should not have to “make it show” the model: it works or it does not work. It is an issue with the model, most likely. Which model… where can I download it? … MANY MMDers make and modify models that look OK on their own system but will have issues on other systems. The simple answer is to move on… find another model to download… one that works.
Hi, i have been working on MMD for a while but took a two year break. When returning and redownloading the software, i get an error with the side-by-side configuration. I have downloaded the neccesary C++ and had rebooted my PC with still no luck. Is there something that I might have missed?
Hmm… I can probably help considering I ran into this issue fairly recently.
Do you have the 2012, 2013, and 2015 C++ redistributables installed? If I recall correctly, I couldn’t get MMD working on a new computer of mine until I installed those as well. If you don’t have them, please try installing them and see if that works.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
First, did you simply download them and stash somewhere, or actually launched every vcredist_x*.exe and let it install? If you did everything properly, each installed library must appear in Control Panel’s Programs & Features:
Second, if you try to install some higher C++ redistributable version as per Kazumi’s advice, and *that* will make MMD run to you, please report back to us. This is an important information if it confirms.
I found my problem, I had cleared out the 2005,2008, and 2010 C++ from my PC. It now fully works
hai, I could not load the effect, it did not display any message.
Fascinating story.
does anyone know how to use ikclut effects, when i load them nothing happens
Hello! so i’ve been using MMD for the last like 4 or 3 years, I have direct x 2010 installed, microsoft visual c++ 2008 (x86), 2010 (x86), 2013(x86), 2005, 32- bit operating system and an intel R HD graphics card
I used MMD v.9.26 for quite a while with MME v0.37 (the latest version i think), but suddenly today the effects tab just disappeared, i tried removing the three files and adding them again, installed the older version of MME and the older versions of MMD and just nothing seems to make the effects tab appear
First of all, the very fact that you *did* manage to run MMD *and* MME having an Intel HD instead of a dedicated graphic card makes you one of a few lucky ones. Usually when people come to us asking “why can’t I run MMD” we first ask them “What do you have to run it *on*?” (that, and DirectX/C++ stuff, but you’ve got that covered). Now your luck seems to ran out. It’s hard to advice anything if the most basic requirement is missing.
Then again, there’s something you can try. Check if your Windows have System Restore configured and if you have a System Restore point made a couple weeks/months ago. There’s a slight chance that reverting to an earlier configuration may return you to the previous fragile state of success. If that happens, disable Windows automatic update, and try to install all necessary updates one by one, checking MMD after each one. If you figure a particular Windows (or graphic driver, or *anything* at all) update that makes MMD stop working, revert to the earlier System Restore point again and try to avoid that particular update further.
You may try also reinstalling DirectX and C++ libraries, on an off chance that one of them simply got corrupted for some reason and reinstalling them may fix things for you. That’s a slim hope, frankly, but worth to try anyway.
Damn okay, Thanks I’ll try that and update you, also does MMD run on a certain graphics card or?
To my knowledge, any NVidia/AMD card should be all right these days. Technically, as I said, Intel HD *ought* to be able to do it as well, as it just has to be DirectX-compliant, but there’s absolutely no guarantee about that, so it’s better to recommend a real card.
Hello, first thanks for your amazing tutorials ; second I’m here because I have a problem and don’t know what to do. Oh and excuse if my english is strange but I’m French ;)
I try to make an animation with MMD. I had load a walking motion to my model and move it a little until the frame 150, in purpose to make her walk. It works.
But I want to make her stop and stand. When I load a pose at this 150 frame, the model take the pose but return to the original place (X 0.0 and Y 0.0) where the models are placed when loaded the first time.
How can I fix this please ?
I believe your pose VPD file includes either the Mother Bone or the center bone and leg IK bones. … when that pose was created, those bones were included… so when you load that pose, the model will snap to those positions. … You might try to V-Select that pose frame and delete the diamonds from those bones I listed… Copy… and then SAVE Pose data with a new name. … and then move the model off to the side somewhere and try to load that new Pose onto that model… did it snap back or stay where you placed it? … I hope that helps.
Thank you for your fast reply, it worked perfectly !
I delete the diamonds of the center (there was also a motherbone in it), and my model took the pose at the right place. I didn’t even need to save a new pose.
It really helped me. Have a good day, and good luck with quarantine ! :D
Is it against any rules to sell an All-in-1 software pack in different variations?
Like after I get everything that I think I need to start an MMD from scratch, there are still things that I don’t think about because I’m new to MMD?
Yes… it probably IS “against the rules” to sell anything like that. The original MMD software by Yu Higuchi is a free download. Nearly EVERYTHING else in the MMD universe has been created by enthusiasts who create and donate their contributions to the web. Once released to the web… it’s out of their hands and into OURS. … So you cannot package a group of ANYTHING and offer it for sale. It is not YOURS to sell.
The flip-side of your question is… THAT’s what MMD is all about… that’s part of the GAME of MMD. You have to search-for and locate the elements of it that you need. The more you learn, the more you figure-out what you need. .. and when you get it, you find that there is more to learn… and so more to locate…a never ending cycle.
MikuMikuDance is a box of tools and toys. … The contents are not described on the box. You encounter the elements as you learn to use them. We, at LearnMMD.com, are helping to WRITE that label… but, even so, there is so much in that box that we cannot simply list what’s in there.
YOU GOT ME STARTED… See the new post I wrote because you fired-me up!
My model has normal leg bones but doesn’t have any IK leg/toe bones… I found tutorials on how to add center/groove/ect bones but I can’t find anything on making IK bones besides handIK. :(