[1] Introduction..pg3. [2] The Windows you Need pg3-4

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2 [1] Introduction..pg3 The Idea of Rigging... pg3 [2] The Windows you Need pg3-4 PMDeditor Command Windows. pg3 PMXeditor Command Windows. Pg4 [3] Rigging Strength pg5-8 [4] Lets Try Rigging!. pg9-16 [5] Mirroring Rigging pg17-19 [6] Afterword pg19

3 Just so you guys all know, I m pretty crappy at rigging, but I can still show you the principles of rigging. MMDFakewings18 has a Rigging chart/guide with tips uploaded in their gallery, so viewing that deviation may also be a good idea as well as using this tutorial. Or you can just use that one instead because I m bad at rigging. This tutorial may only focus more on PMDeditor than PMX, but does include the command windows that you need. In other words the process is the same as when you rig in PMDeditor. You just have a lot of Japanese looming at you instead of English. The Idea of Rigging The idea of rigging is to make sure that you can move a part properly and/or how it should move if it was in real life. For example, Miku being able to bend her elbow, Neru being able to walk when you move her leg bones, Skirt bones being able to move out of the way of a models legs and so on. However, rigging just doesn t include your.pmd/.pmx model. It can also be stage in the same format (e.g. movable doors), hair, clothes, props and so on. PMDeditor Command Windows You need the Ver/Mat window open (V) and the Weight window (W) on the Me area to be open.

4 You also need the B for Bone selected on the Sel area and the little green thing on at the bottom (near the bone symbol). PMXeditor Command Windows It s the same set up, you need the MA Window and the Weight Window. T also still stands for Transformation View. Sorry, but this is all I can really help you with, with the PMXeditor screen because I only know where the options are (I ve never rigged in it), but it should be the same principle. Just don t touch anything other than the same commands used in this tutorial.

5 Okay. The most important thing to remember is that you must be clear on the strength of the rigging when trying to rig an item to a model s bones. For example, this hair is being rigged to the head bone (for now) without any additional bones. Let s see how well it fairs. Strength Transformation View T Comments 0 Black [Not Rigged at All] The back is rigged 100% to the head bone. However, the hair at the front isn t rigged at all. 0 Bright Blue [Not Rigged at All] The entire section of the bangs is no longer rigged to the head bone; 10 Darker Blue When rigged at 10, the hair moves a little bit with the head bone. Well Actually it does a weird twitch.

6 20 Even Darker Blue 30 Indigo-ish Annnnd. This is what happens if you miss a bit. Don t worry, if this happens. All you need to do is go back and make sure all those minions vertices are the same colour. See the two little blue bits I missed in between the indigo at the top? 40 Indigo/ Purpleish Don t worry. Once you make them the same colour they ll all move together. Woooo. We re almost there!

7 50 Purple 60 Burgundyish 70 Burgundy 80 Reddish

8 90 Redder 100 Red It is important to take note of the rigging strength when attempting to rig a part to a model or even an entire model. As usual, I advise to you to look at the rigging of other model s to see how they were rigged e.g. animasa Miku. As it may help you.

9 On second thoughts let s not. Today, I ve decided that I m sick of using hair as examples. So, instead we are going to use a lovely outfit top, which I ve deleted the rigging off of. I wonder how that happened. ((Note: I really am only doing the top part in this tutorial)) Original No Bones = No Rigging Anyway.I m saving it as an.x file because I ve cleaned off all the bones and unnecessary MA and this out hates me for some reason. Now, to rig this top, I m actually ( I wrote actualling before ) going to use an base model to rig this top to.

10 Now, in order to open my top file (which is saved as.x), all I do is drag the file to the MA section (or the screen where the model is, which seems to work just as well). I click add and make it x10. If your file is a.pmd file, you probably don t have to worry about the x10 option because it s already the correct size for you. Excuse me while, I edit the top to fit Rin. Also, please stop staring at her underwear. Now, I m just going to adjust her sleeves. I ll cover editing the sleeves so they fit a model properly some other time. Okay this will do for now. I ll delete her skin problems later.

11 Okay. So that s more or less done. You ll need the following windows open.

12 You have to make sure that the materials of the part that you want to rig are selected. So in my case it s MA0-MA3 after MA16. If I had the little green icon on ( ), the selected MA s would be highlighted. Anyway, select the bone that you want to rig the material onto, in my case its Rin s upper body bone first (in accordance with MMDFakewings18 s rigging guide). TIP: If you cannot select the bone for some reason then use PMDeditor s Main Window, and select the bone through the BON tab. Press Go on the Weighting Window and this lovely stuff will appear. Now, very quickly, I just want to outline what the first commands on the Weight window are. If you ve used my Bone Tutorial (or if you already know all about bones), you ll instantly notice that the weight window shows the selected bones Parent and Child bones respectively. By using these arrows, you can actually jump to the next bone. So if you want to rig the neck next, click the bottom option which lists the Child bone of the selected bone.

13 Let s move onto rigging the actual top now. I m going to rig the ENTIRE top at a 100 on the Upper Body bone. Make sure that you select all the vertices because if they are not red then it means that they aren t rigged! Now to test our rigging; lets go to T at the top of the screen. T stands for Transformation View. You can test posing the model here, test their expressions and their rigging. In PMXeditor you can also test a model s physics as well. Well.VMD view on PMDeditor can do that, but it s not very good. Anyway, I m going to bend Rin s spine back now.

14 Okay. I was kinda hoping that this would happen. THIS is what happens when you miss just one vertex. However, do not worry when this happens. All you need to do is return to the model window (where you are rigging the top) and rig the rogue vertex. All better for now. However, remember that we have only rigged the top to her upper body bone. She currently doesn t have any arm rigging for her top. As shown in the picture across. Don t even ask what she is doing. I do weird things to model s when I m testing them. Anyway, moving on, the next thing that we should rig is her neck area. So select her neck bone and start rigging that area don t worry if you make a mistake e.g. rig too low so it goes into the Upper Body bone area, just re-rig it once you are done rigging the neck area.

15 Also, just so you know, I tend to add in percentage of rigging later on (e.g. 50, 60, 80) you can rig it in percentages if you like, this is just how I do it. Next, lets rig a shoulder area (or whatever that bone is). Now her Arm Bone. Oh and a tiny tip. Its always good to try and rig below the position of the bone. Then her Elbow bone is next. Try to make sure that there is PLENTY of vertices there, else it ll bend ugly. Trust me, when you see it, you ll never want to ever again. And finally, I m going to rig part of her sleeve to her wrist bone because that looks creepy otherwise. (FYI, I forgot to take a picture of her sleeves having black vertices, so I stole it from one of the pictures above).

16 Congratulations. You just rigged a sleeve, collar and main part of the top. Now that s sexy isn t it? However, it d be even better if her right sleeve could also have the same rigging as her Left, now wouldn t it. I could be cruel and say that you have to rig the other side exactly, but I ll be kind and tell you a little secret. You can Mirror rigging, just like how you can Mirror Bones and Mirror entire models/parts.

17 Go back to your model like this, without selecting a bone and without having the weight option on (just click Go again to turn it off). Now select the bones that you WANT to rig the top to. In this case, I ve ALREADY rigged her sleeves to her Left Arm, but I want to rig them TO her Right Arm. So I select all of her Arm bones on her Right side like so. Next go to Edit > Weight and go to Select Half -> Model s Right (in my case). Ooohhh. Look at the lovely orange stuff. Anyway, go back to where you were before and select Weight from Half.

18 Click go on the little box that pops up and once it is done (you ll know because it ll disappear), your sleeve (or whatever) should now also be rigged to the model s Right Arm as well as the Left, as you rigged it previously! smoother and realistic. And the rigging process is now complete for her upper body bones. Obviously, it is advised that you make percentages, but I m not very good at them sometimes. Rigging in percentages will basically make the way the part bends However, I am not quite done yet. Because of where her top is, I m going to have to also rig the lower part of her top to her Lower Body bone. Okay. Now I m done rigging. I m going to test the rigging in MMD now, but for the purpose of showing the rigging, I ll make Rin herself invisible because I m too lazy to fix her skin issues at the moment.

19 As you can see it is rigged, however some parts of it aren t exactly very smooth. You can solve this by rigging in percentages. Also, some motion data s will bend the model s limbs strangely so make sure to also use various ones to see if it s your rigging or the motion data twisting your model s arm strangely. If I was you, I d refer more to MMDFakewings18 s guide on rigging if you want to understand percentages because although I can rig this far, I m not actually very good at smoothing them yet. However, another piece of advice I can give you is to look at the bases/model s rigging on its body and try to imitate it on the part you wish to rig as it is easier. This works for all parts which you want to rig, and will prove useful for when you want to (re)rig something like trousers and shorts. If in doubt, I normally try 100% first and then lower it, if the rigging looks off and see what looks best as I go along. So yes, this concludes this tutorial. I know that it s short and probably isn t as in-depth as the others, but hopefully it should get you started somewhere. Hope that this helps you at least understand rigging a little bit better if nothing else. Don t worry. At some point (whenever that will be), when I m a little bit more better at rigging I will update this tutorial, but until then I hope that this is still useful to you. Ah yes, just one little thing I want to add on here. If you want to stop something being rigged then use 0% - it s the same as when it s got black vertices. Thank you for reading! - Butterfly