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Recent content by DarkChris
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Creating a new MMD Plugin
The size of the model is a large part of it, because currently the only positional markers in use by the Crafty Moment method are the center of the body and the feet. Which means the bulk of the animation is being translated via rotational vectors alone. My first attempts at this have been... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
I've made an attempt at converting Gentleman, and posted the file under Free Scenes on the Hub. -
Scenes MMD Test Gentleman 2020-11-23
Hub-Hosted VAR CC BYThis was a request by the member CuteSvetlana; an MMD conversion of the animation for Gentleman. This particular animation is difficult since the dance is mostly built via IK (Inverse Kinematics) and that's hard to translate over to a realistic human skeleton. So there will be some...
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Scenes MMD Test Gentleman
DarkChris submitted a new resource: MMD Test Gentleman - An Erotic MMD Dance Conversion Read more about this resource... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
My pleasure. I'm still learning VAM, but I used to do all this stuff manually in Blender so I know the structure for animation and rigging. I also work in tech and have a good familiarity with the JSON format VAM uses for save files. I've been using my moderate programming skills to correct a... -
Scenes MMD Facial Expression Test 2020-11-22
Hub-Hosted VAR CC BYThis is a simple dance scene using default resources to test a new form of MMD conversion with facial animation. To track how the development is going, feel free to follow the forum thread: https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/creating-a-new-mmd-plugin.3341/ EDIT: After going over my work, I...
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Scenes MMD Facial Expression Test
DarkChris submitted a new resource: MMD Facial Expression Test - Erotic Dance Import Test with Facial Animation Read more about this resource... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
It's been an interesting process testing how to import new forms of animation into VAM. I'm posting a new test scene now that includes facial animation import. Afterwards, I'll find a decent copy of Gentleman and run it through the same process. The animation in the YouTube link didn't appear to... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
OK, so it's definitely possible. I've already taken half a dozen expressions and automated the import of them into VAM. But there are a lot to go and then I'll still be tweaking in for a while. The biggest issue I see so far is that while VAM's engine can definitely handle it, VAM's interface... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
Still working on a converter workflow on expressions. Should be able to parse the data, it's just now figuring out how to allocate the toon-based expressions on a realistic model. I'll need to start basic and work my way up... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
Well, this should be a handy link to anyone wanting to do animation in VAM - a bone dictionary chart for converting skeletal formats: https://github.com/Hogarth-MMD/mmd_tools_helper/blob/master/mmd_tools_helper/bones_dictionary.csv -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
That's a very good animation - I'll use that one in my next batch of tests tonight. I'm currently going over github libraries to find all of the encoding parameters needed to upgrade my current worflow for facial animations. Some good finds so far for any fellow programmers following along... -
Scenes Gokuraku Jodo MMD Test
Greetings, CuteSvetlana - the pleasure is mine. I had to stop late last night to do some paid work, but I've got some time this week I can use to improve what I have so far for the VMD code. I was able to find the encoding for the VMD animation files, which should help me with the bytecode... -
Creating a new MMD Plugin
Hi, I'm DarkChris - a Blender animator and programmer with a lot of experience converting MMD animation using Python scripts. While I'm very impressed with VAM's abilities, I've noticed the MMD options don't have facial expression and that simply won't do for me. I've noticed that a few years... -
Scenes Gokuraku Jodo MMD Test 2020-11-16
Hub-Hosted VAR CC BYThis is a test conversion of one of my favorite MMD's for alignment testing: Gokuraku Jodo. It has very precise arm and feet movement, so it can be useful in visual identification of how well an MMD conversion process is going. It's also an elegant and sensual dance when done right. You should...