MMD .pmd/.pmx importing full guide

[Kyouma]

This tutorial was made to help those who keeps wondering how do I import all the anime characters
And maybe that way my anime brawl hacks monopoly will be over D:

What you need:
-3DS MAX (Personally, I use 2011 version)
-This pmd editor
-The .pmd importer script for 3ds max
-The detach ID script
-A character's boneset or A character's .max scene
-A default character's .pcs or .pac
-An MMD model good source 1 good source 2( but be careful in source 2, it's a japanese site and most of the models has passwords you have to research by yourself, theire mostly in the nico douga video of the model's release)
-Time
-Patience
-The previously said thing

Here we go!

Part 1: Getting the model ready to be rigged

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Part 1.2: Getting expresions (optional)

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Part 1.3: Converting the .pmx into .pmd

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Part 1.4: Getting the .pmd in 3ds max

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Part 1.5: Merging with an existing scene to use the skin wrap (Optional but you still have to see this to know how to merge your mesh with the character you want to import it over)

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Part 1.6: Setting the materials (textures) in the model

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Part 1.7: Reducing vertices count

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Part 1.8: Fitting the character in the boneset

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Part 1.9: Manually T posing (Optional)

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Part 2: Rigging

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Part 2.2: Skinning the model

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Part 2.3: Generic bonethree structure

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Part 2.4: My rigging method introduction: "Bones A and B"

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Part 2.5: Finishing the rig

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Part 2.6: Exporting the .dae from 3ds max

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Part 3: Brawlbox work

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Part 3.2:Testing the rig

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Part 3.3:Fixing the rig

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Part 3.4:Material work

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Part 4: Finished! Testing in the game!

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[Ashley and Red]

Ohh, good work I must say. It is the 1st tutorial of pmd importing, and it is well written :) I have a quedtion: Does this applies to Maya too? Because I can only rig in Maya

[Rosetta-Hime]

The link is broken for the PMD editor. :(
But very nice tutorial!

[Kyouma]

ah, the link is not broken, I think I just mistyped it, at the link you can notice it ends with 0Editor.rarl <- thats the error
its this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102142953/desd/PMX%20Editor.rar
Post Merge: September 20, 2014, 01:51:53 PM

Ohh, good work I must say. It is the 1st tutorial of pmd importing, and it is well written :) I have a quedtion: Does this applies to Maya too? Because I can only rig in Maya

theres a MMD tutorial out there but its outdated alot; I dont know about maya so I guess you could try getting the model ready to rig and export it as an fbx or obj to rig it in maya  or something

[Ashley and Red]

just a note: I imported succesfully into maya, now let's see if the rig works

[Kyouma]

was that similar to how I wrote it?

[Ashley and Red]

Yes and no. The steps are similar, except.for:

I don't know how to decrease the.vertice number.in Maya

Instead of.directly importing the pmd into Maya, you should import it in Blender (use any pmd/pmx/mqo importer) and then export as .dae or .fbx. Import normally in Maya, then.

Tools are the same, but some have different names

[Kyouma]

oh, well try it as I said previously; import it and optimize it on 3ds max and then export it to get it in maya; but its interesting to see its almost the same method indeed

[E-scope12]

Are you going to import any Danganronpa 3D Models?

[mahoujin]

nice job man, exelent tutorial.

[DarkDeity]

awesome guide man i will DEFINATLEY have to put this to use. 

quick question though, you said personally that you use 3ds max 2011 but would the current 3ds max work or no?

[also as a bit of a side post/question..your icon..who is she? i could SWEAR that i may have seen her somewhere before and its literally on the tip of my tounge its driving me nuts that i dont remember ^^"]

[Kyouma]

I guess it should also work in the newer version; you use scripts that works on any 3ds max version
and that girl is not stocking from panty and stocking; she has no name and is a character from the video "Me!Me!Me!" by teddyloid

[DarkDeity]

ah ok

and ah alright. i never heard of either thing you mentioned. probably got her confused with someone else ^^'

[HaloFanODST]

All images broken.

[Kyouma]

phucking chit...
Ill fix this in some time; replacing all them images will sure be tired