This SECRET Ray-MMD + KiraKira Effect Combo Will Enhance Your Videos by 10x [MMD Beginner Tutorial] 

You're actually the best mmd tutorial youtuber. Like hands down.

@@CactusChan Woah T-t-thank you very much! I try to make my videos as informative and entertaining as possible so I can spread my knowledge to beginners because I know the feeling of start out and getting confused what to do

nice, I'll try it out in one of my videos as soon as possible. oh yeah Night Scenes and possibly also Stroboscope Disco (dark interiors with fast disco lights) as well as creepy light moods would be a nice addition :)

@@theweebdev and if you can someday. Please explain the setup for GodRay. but possibly also differences from all the "Time of" Skyboxes. It seems like the normal "Time of Day" would be more computationally intensive. It's mentioned in some tutorials, but just loading it into the EnvLight map breaks MMD.

@@SandySunray I actually just used two skybox in raymmd: Time of Night and Sky Hemisphere. Might use Time of Day later to experiment in my next videos

Thanks, will do! More to come :)

Haha Thanks. More tutorials to come ☺️

Thanks for the kind words. Would love to see my channel reach at least 10k but I'll do my best to get there one upload at a time. Have a nice day 😊

You're welcome. I'll make more beginner friendly tutorials for the community to make it lively again. Next tutorial is about using vfx and I'll be using around 60 effects which I hope will help the community create even better videos

@@theweebdev Hey man thank for reply you are a legend. Do you know what would be nice for more vet MMDers?, rendering tips. XD

@@animeturnMMD Ah let me think how I can translate my process to a video. I think it will be more about my thought process and principles I use like color theory rather than focusing on the technical side of mmd

@@theweebdev of course that would be nice too, but I was thinking about compression, Codecs and those things, at the begining I lost hours of work because I used bad controlers which either didn't rendered shit or rendered a video file so heavy that mi pc was unable to open it or use it later, no matter how well someone can be at putting everything together if you can't properly render the video you are screwed.

When it comes to exporting the video, there's nothing special that I do. I only use utVideo codec that I got from learnmmd website and render at 60fps.

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed my tutorials. I'm releasing a new one again next week ☺

Woah thank you! Seeing you guys enjoying my tutorials really fires me up to make more

Woah thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. I have to add that to my future tutorials as a bonus part

You're welcome and thanks for subscribing! I was busy these past few days so my next tutorial will be delayed a little. Happy weekends 🙂

You can play around with the ray_controller and change some values like focal length, focal distance, etc. You can try using effects like msEdgeBlending and see if it solves the problem since it sharpens edges

You're so welcome. I'm glad my tutorial was able to help you. More tutorials to come! Happy weekends 😁

@@theweebdev I'm really looking forward to your tutorial. Have a nice weekend too! 😭✨

You're welcome! I haven't tried to use this technique on multiple models so I'm not sure but since you are going to assign it to only one model, it might make the other models blurred. I'm thinking maybe loading ray.x for each model? I know it sounds weird but it won't hurt to give it a try haha I'll try to experiment to see if there's a way to do it

Alright thanks, I'll have to mess with it to see if I can figure out a way haha

Hi, I just have the same question as you. Did you manage to solve it somehow?

@@RenataRengoku5941 It's probably not the best fix possible, but right now I'm doing it as the tutorial suggests, and whoever is the character/model I want to focus on (usually whoever is in front) will be the model I connect Raycast to. If/when the camera changes to focus on another character, I switch the model that Raycast is connected to. So say Model A is the focus on frame 0, I will set Raycast up to be connected to Model A. However, at frame 300 the camera focuses on Model B. So at frame 300, I set up Raycast to connect to Model B. I do this for any time the camera switches focus. It's a little time consuming, but the character I want will always be in focus. From what I know there's no way to focus on more than one at a time, just switch the focus around. I hope this helps a bit 💕

Happy weekends!

Thank you! I enjoy making these tutorial videos especially the intro part 😄 Glad you enjoyed it as well. See you again in the next tutorial!

Thanks! Yeah when I'm starting out, I also had a hard time doing night scenes. I'll make it for the next tutorial

Thanks. Happy weekends 🙂

You're welcome! If you need to learn more about using raycast later, you can check my channel. Have nice day! ☺

No hay problema

Go for it! I use kirakira a lot in my videos but I also try to think if it fits the theme of the scene. Mostly night scenes suits the best for kirakira

Thanks :)

You're welcome! More tutorials to come

Glad you like them! See you in the next tutorial :)

Thanks 👍

@@theweebdev your videos helped me tremendously, so easy to understand and follow, thank you! 🤩

​@@linalee3540 You're welcome. Glad I was able to help through my tutorials. More to come!☺

Have you tried loading Kitakira first before Ray-MMD?

For that you have to find/make a normal map especially made for furry materials. If don't know how to make/add a normal map, just go to bowroll or deviantart and search for furry materials for mmd

@@theweebdev do you have any recommendations for that? So far i only found one and there are a lot shaders which i am still unsure which is the best option

@@MilesDillusDixon I haven't used any furry models so I don't know what to recommend other than finding ray-mmd materials with furry properties or you can use blender to make or edit your model's materials so when you open it in MMD the furry materials are already built in to the model

@@theweebdev some might have it (fur textures), if there is a universal shaders might be convenient - then to match them as i am still considered as somewhat amateur with both MMD and blender (only used them for conversion for now)

Return the value of bokeh to zero in ray.conf when you don't need it

Have you checked the MaterialMap tab if material_2.0.fx was applied to your model?

@@theweebdev Yes I did! And finally, it worked! All I did was uncheck the model and the stage in the MaterialMap in MME! Thank you so much!❤️

You're welcome! Don't hesitate to ask and I'll answer to the best of my abilities. 😊

@@theweebdev This is my final question... What to load first? Your model or the stage?

@@DarkAssassin01 You can load whichever you want to go first. I personally load the model first because when I'm making a MMD video, I don't know what stage looks good with the model at first.

Bro sorry for the late reply. I didn't see your comment because it was flagged as spam by RU-vid and just saw it today in my Held for Review section. Give me a minute and I'll find the link for that.

@@theweebdev it’s altightttt--- And, thank you so much !!!!!!

Can't find it as well. I read the readme file and there's no mention of the name of the one that made it. It only says that it was a modification of Takobuto's snow effect. Sorry bro. If I find it again somewhere , I'll comment here. Here's the only thing that i saw that looks close: bowlroll.net/file/296886

@@theweebdev aaaaaa~ this is also good! Thanks for help!!

You're welcome! There's a new tutorial that I'll release tomorrow so if you are interested, see you at 7:30pm JST :)

Oke

I use ray-mmd. You can check my channel because I have a lot of tutorials regarding that

Absolutely. I'll add it to my list of tutorials to make. I'll make a rainy scene later and use ikwetfloor for that.

@@theweebdev Awesome!

Ah its just a glitch. Sometimes MMD uses "null" as the name when there's no English translation but sometimes it uses the Japanese name instead. As for the kirakira not changing, check your ray_controller because you might have not saved the changes. Also, sometimes you accidentally changed a different parameter for example, you changed focal length+ instead of focal length-

@@theweebdev I'll re-check that and re-watch your video again! Thank you so much!❤️

I don't think its is possible with multiple models using this method. What others are doing is focusing one model at a time by changing the assignment of ray.x to models you want the focus on each scene. You can check the comments section if you want further details because some people are discussing this

@@theweebdev yes yes i scrolled and found what others were doing but thank you so much for the reply

Thanks! Same as Diffusion7, you just have to load it in accessory manipulation. If you want the effect to be seen better, you change it's Si to a higher value. Wdym by it goes to the model?

@The Weeb Dev MMD Ohhh okay that makes sense and when I loaded motion blur and makes the all the movement of the model blurry like too much blurry.

@@sarukasaki5870 I see. You just have to adjust Si if its too blurry. A quick tip is when you render the video into AVI, the blur is much lesser compared when you are using the effect inside MMD so adjust accordingly.

@The Weeb Dev MMD Ahhh thank you so much your the best! 😭🙏💕

Thanks!

Yes you need to return the value to 0 to remove the blurr effect. If you want to adjust the blurr, you need to adjust the values in ray_controller like focal distance,length etc until you get what distance you want the blurr to appear

Hmmm.. Is this happening only to Kirakira controller or any controller? it could be a problem in your MMD software instead of the MMD effect

Welcome to the Kirakira club

@@theweebdev thanks you have good tutorials. And I really been trying to enhance my mmds for a while now

@@Shijishoutmon You're welcome. I'll add more tutorials as long as I have knowledge to share. See you in the next tutorial! :)

I think inside the original kira_kira particle folder there is a KiraKira_Black.x file. Haven't used it though

@@theweebdev I'll take a look

" Cannot open the model file" means MMD can't locate the path to the model you used. This usually happens when your model's name/folder is written in chinese. Rename your model and folder to english.

@@theweebdev ooh, never thought of that, thank you very much!

You mean you want the sky hemisphere to emit purple environment light instead of the default one? For that you just need to go to ray_controller and change the values of BalanceB+ and BalanceR+ to make the scene color purple(For example, set both value to 0.6)

@@theweebdev okay i will try it thanks

That means your pc can't handle the process. You can decrease the number of kirakira particles to make it less laggy using it's controller but if it's still laggy, you need to upgrade your pc

@@theweebdev ah OK. Thank you

@@URS-fe5pu if you can handle a little lag and still able to work, the good news is, when you render/export the video later, there is no lag. I sometimes make a mmd video even if its laggy because I use a lot of effects but when I render it, the video created runs smoothly

you only need to use one ray.x and switch it to different models you want to focus. I suggest checking the comments section because someone asked this before

@@theweebdev oh thanks you

You can only focus one model at a time. Others change the attachment of ray.x to shift the focus from model to model. You can read how they do it in the comments section of his video

@@theweebdev I see I see, thank you so much!

ended up redo-ing it and it just worked next time, I left bokeh quality to 1 and didn't restart mmd. maybe it was that, or that mmd wasn't on my primary monitor the first time through

Ah, I'm glad it worked. I'm sorry for the late reply. I'm rushing to finish the next tutorial, so I didn't see your comment.

I haven't experience a lot of model texture problems so far so I don't think I qualify to make a tutorial for that. For missing textures, I normally just change the files names to english when it is written in chinese and seems to solve the problem. Sometimes, I open the model in the PMX Editor and check if the textures match in the specific part(for example, I check in pmx editor if the eyes and the texture assigned to it is correct). Have you tried opening the model in the pmx editor and see if its the same appearance as the picture where you downloaded it? If its the same, it means the problem is how you render it in MMD. If it doesn't look right in the PMX Editor, it means the texture is the problem itself.

@justarandomweeb lol RU-vid is censoring the name of the file extractor so now I'm wondering what could it be. Thanks for the help!

@@theweebdev Thanks for the help guys! Someone also commented to use a different extractor

Thanks for this. I'm going to use this as well. The name seems okay to me. Seems like RU-vid hate that word because it deletes that extractor's name completely without being registered in my "Held for Review"

@justarandomweeb1941 I love you guys! Thanks for all of this!

what copy? You mean the software MMD or the effects? If you are talking about the MMD software, Its been a year so I don't know the exact link where I download it but its in the website named learnmmd

This was asked before so I suggest reading the comments section and look for the comment by Allei2511

@@theweebdev thanks! I will check it out now

That means your PC can't handle the render with those effects. Kirakira mainly causes this crash/lag because of too many particles. One solution would be lowering the screen resolution when rendering like for example render it in 480p instead of 1080p and see how it goes. Also, I encountered crashes before with some kirakira effects that I used and what I did was lowering the Si in the accessory manipulation by 0.7 or lower until it stops crashing. You'll know if lowering the Si is working when every time you lower the value, the longer the rendering last before it crash like for example start with Si 0.7 and if it crashes at frame 1000 lower it to 0.6 and next render it crashes at frame 2000. Do this until there are no more crashes. Lastly, I remembered, the kirakira controller in this tutorial has " Number of Particles" unlike the other kirakira I've used before with no controller so instead of changing the Si, try changing the number of particles in the controller first and lower the number of particles

@@theweebdev Wow I didn't expect a reply so fast but thank you. Unfortunately, even after doing all the things you listed it still crashed at frame 0.

@@xionmeow1794 hmmm.. Does it render if you remove the kirakira effect entirely?

@@theweebdev I don't think so

@@xionmeow1794 So the problem here I think is that your PC can't handle the process of rendering the MMD video. What codec do you use when rendering the video? I use UtVideo

I'm making it and will be available this week or next week

@@theweebdev thanks!

Did you close MMD before changing the value to 1? You might be changing something different. Changing BOKEH to 1 will automatically blur the scene once you open MMD again after changing ray.conf provided you made the changes in ray_controller.pmx

@@theweebdev yes I did everything it says in the video step by step

@midou1088 then I really don't know what to say bro sorry its very clear in the tutorial how it should be done there's no other steps to make it. Try changing the location of your ray-mmd folder to the same folder of your MMD then repeat the tutorial from the start and see how it goes. Double check your ray_controller.pmx if you changed the right parameter because sometimes we adjust + instead of - slider and vice versa. Also be sure you register each changes

@@theweebdev okay I'll give it a try, thank you

Tbh its my first time hearing it and I tried to search it and RU-vid giving me information about Corona when I typed it so its scaring me to make one because the algorithm might be confused and give me the wrong audience thinking my channel is about corona instead of MMD

@theweebdev I understand it's ok 🙏 I really love your RU-vid channel the hatsune miku performance and everything I love it

Thanks! Makes me happy when people enjoys my videos. Happy weekends!

Make sure you save the changes in ray.conf and also check if you changed and registered the correct parameters in ray_controller like for example you might have changed Focal length+ instead of FocalLength-

thank you so much!!@@theweebdev

Check the values you put in the Ray controller. It could be that you change some values that should be the other opposite one like for example FStop+ was changed instead of FStop-. Also check if Measurement Mode and other values are Registered. You'll know it's working when you open MMD again after changing BOKEH to 1 and the surrounding area is blur while only the model is displayed clearly when you zoom in.

@@theweebdev Im having issues where I dont see much of a change when i zoom in I just redownloaded raycast to reset all the settings to default and imma follow this video again see if it was just me changing settings because I was trying to make Raycast look a bit better but im still new with it EDIT: YAY I FIXED IT

@@MsZyraMMD Nice. Glad it was fixed. Welcome to the kirakira secret club 😁

@@theweebdev Hehe you have no idea how much this changed how I use Raycast now if only I could find something useful about using Toon Shader on Raycast

@@MsZyraMMD I could make one later. I'm making time of day tutorial next but if I found a way to make a toon shader on raycast easy to make, I'll add it as a bonus chapter at the end. If not, I'll just make a separate tutorial for it

Use notepad in your pc to open the ray config file

haha I made it funny to give some positive energy before starting the tutorial

Load 2 colors of kirakira.x in accessory manipulation then change the position of one of the kirakira.x so they don't overlap

@@theweebdev ty

@@theweebdevhange question because don’t rlly mind to the other,is there a method to see bone name? I can’t find the head bone bc of names(or if you could pls tell me the head bone name of the model of your video “beat eater” because I’m using that model[miku cafe music])

@@Anna.6lv1 If you want to see the name of the bones since MMD can't display it in sometimes when its name is in japanese, you can use pmx editor to locate the bone and rename it so when you load it again in MMD, you can easily identify it. As for the model that you are using, it should be either in 8th or 9th position counting from the top when you select the target bone

@@theweebdev the name of bones isn’t Japanese,it’s English mixed to casual letters in strange font I think

Ah the creator of the effect removed all the effects in the link. Let me get back and find another one

Done. I've updated the link

Someone said that you can reload the scene without closing MMD. After you change ray.conf, click on MME -> Reload All. Tried this but its loading forever on my part so I just close MMD and open it again because its faster.might better on your pc

@@theweebdev thanks will try :3. Edit : if I may ask , when I have a solid color black ground,when I try the ray main and add material 2.0 to the model, there's a cutout of the contour of the model and it's all very blur and even if i remove the material it doesn't go away...know anything?

@@BATMAN10N yeah I tackled that in the last section of my ray-mmd time of day tutorial. Simply uncheck the model in every effects tab after the materialmap tab and the contour will go away. It's the other effects that you use which are affecting the rendering of the model so you have to uncheck it on those tabs

@@theweebdev 🙇

You're welcome. You don't need to apologize, I'm just not very active in Instagram so my replies are slow. I just typically go there when I have a new video

In the Kirakira Controller, there is a slider named "Fluctuations"