Expression Morphs… (☸ tab): tune how each MMD expression looks on your character's face. Every expression shows MMD's reference model doing it, and opening one holds it on your dancer's face while you adjust the morphs. Save it as a profile for one appearance, or as your default for every dancer.
Mouth, Eyes and Brows under "Expression Strength": make one part of the face stronger or softer.
Loop (under ▶ ■ ↻): when the dance ends, it starts again from the beginning.
"Body Control" Relaxed: grab a dancer's hand (VR or mouse) while she dances; let go and it glides back into the dance.
"Face Control" Strict: the motion's face wins over VaM's Auto Expressions and blinking while it plays.
"Camera Distance" for camera motions: bring the camera closer or farther.
The ☸ tab's "Multiple Dancers" and "Comfort" are rows that open with a click and sum up their settings when closed.
Fixed
With an Animation Step after MMD Master's step, the dance now plays to the end of the song before the scene moves on to the next step (before, the whole song went by in one second).
The Comfort preferences (for example "Level Horizon" turned off) now apply right after VaM starts; before, they only took effect once you changed one.
Example scene
The template now has a Step 2: anything you put on Step 1's "OnInactive" (or on Step 2) happens when the song ends.
Help
New questions on the "?" tab: replaying a song or making something happen when it ends, moving or holding a dancer while she dances, and fitting the expressions to your character's face.
Multiple Dancers (☸ tab): choose who dances which part of a group dance with Dancer 1–6. Characters in no slot get the parts that are left.
Auto Hide Dancers Without Motion: a dancer with no part (Motion "None") is hidden, and shows again when it gets one.
Load "Person Triggers" SubScene for each dancer: loads a Person Triggers preset with its triggers aimed at that dancer, so every dancer gets its own copy.
Fixed
Desktop, with a camera motion on "[CameraRig] (My View)": holding the right mouse button now turns the view left and right too (not only up and down). Your turn lasts until the next camera cut, and ■ now puts your view back exactly where it was.
Help
New questions on the "?" tab about Multiple Dancers, Auto Hide and the Person Triggers buttons.
MMD camera motions: play a camera file on your own view ("[CameraRig] (My View)", desktop and VR) or on a WindowCamera. Pick the camera in "Default Camera Motion" and "Load MMD Folder" gives it the folder's camera file. ■ puts your view back. VR comfort settings: Level Horizon, Snap Turns, Shots Only and Smoothing.
Props and any atom as a Target: give a chair, an umbrella or a microphone its prop motion. A prop gets its set's prop file automatically.
"Move With": a prop, a camera or a partner follows a dancer across the floor, so a partner dance stays together and the camera keeps the dancer in frame.
New panel with tabs: General, Target Settings, Dance Space, ☸ (settings) and ? (help). Easier to use in VR.
"Open MMD" button next to VaM's menu bar: one click opens the plugin's panel, wherever it sits in the scene (it can be turned off on the ☸ tab).
A / M next to Motion, Face Expression and Audio: "A" lets "Load MMD Folder" choose the file, "M" keeps your own pick.
Smarter folder loading: the plugin reads each file to tell dances, faces, cameras and props apart, groups a folder's files into dance sets by their names (versions, numbered dancers, extras) and gives each character its own part with the matching face file. The file lists show only the files that fit.
Release Control: Release at End, Release when Paused, Release when Stopped. The plugin lets go of the character so you can pose it or let other plugins move it; ▶ takes it back.
Dance Space Ignore List: atoms that never count as obstacles (a rug, a whole room subscene), or every atom whose name contains "_ignore".
My Preferences on the ☸ tab, saved on your computer for every scene: file filters, hidden atoms, a default library folder, My View camera and comfort settings.
Improved
↻ also picks up new and changed files in the loaded folder, without stopping the music.
The Travel Limits show the real maximum on each side.
Taller Progress step buttons for VR.
Dances that move MMD's operation center now stand where their author placed them, and their props line up.
Fixed
Changing Audio or Audio Output while playing restarted the song; it now keeps its place.
Follow Scene Animation option added to the General tab: the dance and the music follow VaM's Scene Animation, and the plugin's play, stop and progress bar move Scene Animation. Your own Scene Animation triggers run in time with the song. Works on a character, in Scene Plugins and on an Animation Step, also inside a subscene.
Template: An example subscene preset template that includes everything set up for Scene Animation. The template is available as a separate package, download it from this page.
"Open MMD Master" trigger action: a scene button (or any trigger) opens the plugin's panel.
Expression Strength slider: turn the facial expressions down for characters where MMD's faces look too strong.
Dance for Me "Position" anchor: type in a spot on the floor (X / Z); triggers can set or animate it.
"VaM" shortcut in "Load MMD Folder", and a Help topic for MMD libraries on another drive.
.ogg audio file type support.
Improved
Facial expressions now combine the way MMD combines them; the mouth shapes use VaM's lip-sync shapes, and calm eyes, open mouths and the tongue-out face are new.
Arms and hips sit closer to the original MMD dancers.
Fixed
The legs did not move with some dances (the lower body stayed straight while the hips moved).
Dances that switch their leg IK off now play their own leg motion.
After a trigger or preset changed the MMD folder, the previous folder's song could come back.
Fixed: MMD Master failed to load with "The namespace 'UnityEngine.Networking' is prohibited" when VaM's Allow Plugins Network Access setting is off (VaM's default). It now loads with that setting off; nothing else changed.
