Unlike other MMEs that were written essentially to do one thing, Ray-MMD can do many things. Because it is a system rather than merely an effect, it gives the user a lot of latitude and freedom. Unlike most MME packages, Ray-MMD is an environmental lighting system. There are good articles on this site on how to use the effect at a more advance level, but if you have never used the effect before, it is best to start here. You really need to know a little bit about what the effect is suppose to do and how it works. We will not discuss the theories nor technologies underlying the effect, except for the basics. This article will give you the basic steps on how to set up the effect and get it working.

Beginner’s Guide to Using Ray-MMD ver 1.5.0 Part of the problem is that the effect comes with next to no beginner’s instructions and most of the tutorials on how to use the effect on YouTube are not particularly helpful either.

It also seems to be one of the hardest for many new users to MMD to get working. Now you can work with the ray_controler.Ray-MMD is one of the most popular MME shaders currently available. This is how it looks like with the edited material maps: If you want to add more details to the render, you can use the materialmap tab on the MMEffect tab!! REMINDER: It must be the skylighting_hdr.fx from the exact same folder you got your skybox otherwise it won’t work! Still on the mme tab, open the envlightmap tab and set the effect skylighting_hdr.fx on the skybox! Once done, your render should look like this:īut the shader still can’t read the lightmap, this is an easy fix!! Step 4: Fixing the lightmap. Open your MMeffect tab and then set the main.fx from the main folder inside the raycast folder. Okay, after loading the skybox, the controler and the ray.x, you got to load the shaders. Okay, now I loaded everything, time to have fun… Skybox_hdr.pmx (inside skybox folder there’s some skybox, you just need to chose which one you will use) There? Great! Now load the effect! Step 2: Setting up raycast. Any model of your choice Okay, lets start! Step 1: load your model and pose it normally. Raycast shader 1.3.1 (This is the version that works the most with me, you can try others, though.) MikuMikuDance (I use 9.26, not sure about the newer one) Feel free to ask me in any other social media!! And today I, Kaworu, am going to teach you how to set it!Īlso, this is my first tutorial, I’m really sorry if something was left behind. A slightly heavy, yet dynamic effect that allows some neat combinations. Today, one of the most famous MMD effect is Raycast Shader.

Mmd raycast material