VRChat MMD dance to avatar tutorial [ Updated Desc 19-Jan 18 ]

 

Hi my name is Shana from vrchat and i started not long ago Learning how to import mmd dances to vrchat was one of the fun stuff to do for me so today im making this easy and quick tutorial where you dont need LODeditor or mmd4mecanim or convert pmx in unity and stuff Updated MMD tools if yours cant import movement https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OYezmq1ikp9JmIymNacUVKXKzrC2IKLb/view?usp=sharing [Keypoints to take note of ] if you want the face and eyes to move remember not to delete your face shape keys while decimating for me i was lucky that my model came below 20k poly counts Note that 19.9k is the limit vrchat allows to decimate without touching the shape keys you need to separate by material from the mmd tools then decimating the body parts one by one Note 2 [ *outdated* ] ̶i̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶g̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶i̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶u̶p̶l̶o̶a̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶:̶3̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶,̶ ̶i̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶c̶o̶m̶m̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶o̶n̶s̶p̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶s̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶s̶ ̶[̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶u̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶a̶r̶d̶r̶u̶m̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶w̶e̶ ̶]̶ Note 3 blender uses right click to select objects pressing h while selecting will hide and object to unhide just press alt H and always make sure your mouse is inside the 3dview to delete rigid bodies and joints you can right click on the right and delete hierarchy or you can just unhide all and do what i do pressing a will select all / deselect all Note 4 SIMPLE STEPS : if you dont understand what im doing in blender import pmx file press alt h to unhide click on mesh and press h to hide click on bone and press h to hide [ note that you can use the hierarchy to delete the joints and rigidbodies ] press B and drag select to delete the rigid bodies & joints press alt H to unhide all press a till everything deselects then a again till it selects all import vmd dance make sure polygon count is less than 20k export to fbx [ just a tiny note : dynamic bones are NOT a must i just added it for the hair ] and also note that the hair only has 1 bone thus the clipping thru body part Note 5 Have fun and enjoy any questions just hit me up on the VRChat Discord group my name is Shana link to the discord group is as shown below https://vrchat.net/discord UPDATE 14/11/17 [IMPORTANT NOTE] : if your dances dont work, one solution is that you might have translated the bones so please DO NOT translate the bones . UPDATE 21/11/17 Q̶u̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶N̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶s̶i̶c̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶e̶r̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶O̶N̶S̶P̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶i̶g̶n̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶N̶O̶T̶E̶ ̶2̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶a̶b̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶s̶p̶ and also my volume i always use 0.1 for optimal levels so for louder or softer just do +/- 0.03 if you split your mesh by material and decimate it one by one remember to select all the mesh and join them by pressing control j if not the dance will not work UPDATE 24/11/17 thanks to a fellow VRChatter for asking this question in unity if you try to clone by control c and v it wont work you need to press control D to duplicate then you can press F2 to rename UPDATE 4/12/17 people dosent seem to notice it so ill just say here that you should use GENERIC instead of HUMANOID UPDATE 5/1/18 The new vrchat update automatically adds volume and audio range to avatar sounds so audio range in unity dosent work anymore basically they broke it so people can only hear when they are standing very near you UPDATE 19/1/18 havent really had the time to update but in the new-ish update of vrchat you now need to have newest sdk which you can download from https://vrchat.net/ by clicking the download button ^without the newest sdk you wont be able to upload avatars and also audio range on avatars are now the same range as voice chat so you are able to share you mmd dances better now volume wise its medium-low Please note that any pm's asking for my avatars and such will not be responded to as this is becoming an issue now that more and more people are asking me for avatars Feed shana ? UwU https://streamlabs.com/vrchatshana