MMD to Blender 2.80 Tutorial

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  I created an updated version of this tutorial for Blender 2.92. You can find it here www.deviantart.com/crazy4anime…

I have updated my MMD to Blender Tutorial for 2.80. There have been a lot of changes made to Blender so I had to change a lot of the info, and I was able to remove some info that was no longer needed. This tutorial will not work for previous versions of Blender because Blender changed it's interface a lot. I used the latest version of the MMD Tools addon. The addon gets updated frequently ^^

Hopefully you will find this helpful. I will also mention that Blender no longer has the Blender Internal Engine or the Game Engine. Now it has Cycles, Workbench, and Eevee. I can't use Eevee because it is a real time render engine and my computer can't handle it. Blender also crashes for me a lot in 2.80 so I may end up going back to 2.79, but I will still have both installed on my computer. If you have any questions feel free to ask I'm still learning myself so I don't know how to do everything yet, but I will try to help if I can ^^

This is something I didn't put in the tutorial but I thought I would mention it here. Some MMD models may not work in Blender correctly. If you can't get a model to work in Blender then you'll have to find another model to use instead.

(Edit: 11/26/19) Blender 2.81 came out on 11/21/19 and so far it has not crashed on me when converting materials to cycles. It looks like it has been fixed I recommend that you update to 2.81 if Blender 2.80 crashes on you a lot ^^

(Edit: 2/17/20) Blender 2.82 came out a few days ago and the MMD tools addon still works in it ^^

(Edit: 6/3/20) Blender 2.83 came out today and the MMD tools addon still works in it ^^

(Edit: 8/31/20) Blender 2.90 came out today and the MMD tools addon still works ^^

(Edit: 11/25/20) Blender 2.91 came out today and the MMD tools addon still works ^^

(Edit: 2/25/21) Blender 2.92 came out today and the MMD tools addon still works ^^


If you are still having trouble installing it here is more info that may help you. It was made for 2.79 but it should still be helpful github.com/powroupi/blender_mm…

Here are other tutorials that powroupi has made that may have info you are looking for as well. They were also made for 2.79 but should still help github.com/powroupi/blender_mm…

If you are new to Blender here is a playlist: Blender Fundamentals 2.8 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=… 

 Exporting: I do not know how to correctly export a model from Blender to MMD but these tutorials may help you out ^^
Tutorial: How to convert a 3D character model to MMD
github.com/powroupi/blender_mm…
[Blender x PMXE] How to Export to PMX (Without errors)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_zaEe…
Blender TO MMD [EXPORTING]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpmW8…


 Here is the link to download Blender www.blender.org/download/

 Here is the link to download MMD Tools addon for Blender github.com/powroupi/blender_mm…


Here are my other MMD in Blender tutorials
MMD to Blender 2.92 Tutorial (New Version) www.deviantart.com/crazy4anime…
MMD to Blender 2.79 Tutorial (Old Version) fav.me/dbvo83i
MMD to Blender Tutorial (Old Version) fav.me/d9anqi0

MMD in Blender 2.82 Posing Tutorial (New Version) fav.me/dduuyu4
MMD in Blender Basic Posing Tutorial (Old Version) fav.me/d9qroj9

MMD in Blender Importing Motions Tutorial Part 1 (New Version) fav.me/dclo4au
MMD in Blender Importing Motions Tutorial Part 2 (New Version) fav.me/dcloa6q
MMD in Blender Importing Motions Tutorial (Old Version)  fav.me/darjqf8


Models used in the tutorial are:

Kaito Jacket v1.03 (c) Biyo
Sakata Gintoki Ver2.52 (c) aokana

Tutorial made by me in Photoshop CS5