A simple guide to freeware animation program MikuMikuDance (MMD)
This guide is a work-in-progress.
I've been working on a large project featuring Hatsune Miku and various other VOCALOID characters for some time. To do this project, I've needed to render and create custom 3D animations. However, as a student I don't have the time to learn how to use programs such as Blender. I found a program commonly used for this purpose named MikuMikuDance (MMD). Although intuitive to use and incredibly useful, the issue with MMD I find is the lack of easily understandable up-to-date documentation and active maintenance. After spending many hours searching the web trying to solve problems and eventually becoming somewhat decent at the program, I decided to write this guide partially as reference for myself in case I forget how to do something, and also to help people who are new to MMD or haven't used it in a long time.
The goal for this documentation site are to be entirely free and editable by all with community feedback, and to be easily understandable.
To begin writing or developing the website, follow the instructions below.
- Using a command prompt or terminal, clone the repository with
git clone https://github.com/davidcralph/mmd-guideand enter it withcd mmd-guide - Run
npm ito install dependencies - Run
npm run devto start the development server. From here, you can start developing/writing
All documentation is licensed under CC BY NC SA 4.0
