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Happy birthday to my beloved imouto, Megurine Luka!!

14th Anniversary Luka Download by ShannaHeart on DeviantArt

It is Luka's anniversary again, so I have updated this model! Her earrings now have simple bones and physics, her shoes now follow a leg bone that they didn't follow before, and her elbow issue has been fixed in both arms! I hope you enjoy this update, and thank you for the 206 downloads of the original version!

Password and download link is in the description!

[ren-cerati]

He's so fuck

My phone camera cackling after stealing my quality and colors

[askaaaexe]

Making lots of laugh Miku was a lot of fun

She needs some finishing touches but overall I’m really happy

[rainierawr]

Haii!

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Since DeviantArt is a hellhole I'm making this account as a nice alternative.

My Links:

Strawpage · DeviantArt · Bluesky · Toyhouse

°ʚ♡ — my tag directory:

#rainie-art : #rainie-wips : #rainie-ocs : #rainie-downloads : #rainie-rbs

[caffeinated-chaos-bean]

!! CALLOUT + REMOVING ALL DOWNLOADS !!

I've officially had it with the modeling community at this point. Once again, models of mine have been stolen and reuploaded without credit, with my original rules taken out, and without permission. I'm sick of this, because it has happened more than once now.

MEGAcollector User Profile | DeviantArt

Check out MEGAcollector's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired.

The above user is compiling multiple "new" downloads for various mmd models, my Montecore edits being among them, in a similar fashion to how LyraLaney would. Is this Lyra? Not sure, don't really give a shit if it is.

Everyone, please go through their gallery. If you find any of your works re-uploaded, report immediately. Do not comment, either, as the wonderful Winx model creator called them out and was given absolute disrespect as a result.

Due to this mass rule breaking, I'm done. I'm removing my model downloads permanently. I will not give people like this the opportunity to re-upload my work as if they have a right to distribute it against my will. Not only are the deviations themselves being deleted, I will be deleting the downloads at the source. NO ONE will get the models I worked hard on ever again. People like this have ruined that chance.

Now, I admit. I rule break. But at least when I DO rule break, I keep it for a personal model that is never given out to anyone. I may break the editing rule here and there, but never would I cross the line into re-uploading or even distributing such content. As such, don't expect to see mmd content on my dA ever again. That will be solely for my tumblr. I will not associate with the bullshit MMDC drama and content theft that's taken over this hellsite.

A DMCA has been filed regarding my models with proof that I had created the models and uploaded them first. This marks the second time someone had reuploaded my Montecore Miku without my consent, and the first time someone reuploaded my Montecore Rin. Prior to this new event, my 90s Aesthetic Gumi and Gumi Redesign models were reuploaded to Aplaybox. I'm not going through having to report over and over and over again.

Also a bit of a sidenote, the Montecore Rin pack I specifically did NOT include a nude model becuase she's a minor. MEGACollector not only reuploaded my model pack of both Miku and Rin, but they also edited Rin's swimsuit model into a nude model that WAS NEVER PART OF THE ORIGINAL MODEL PACK AND WAS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ALLOWING TO BE DONE.

MY MIKU PACK (Original source, although I have since removed the download):

[MMD] ~ Montecore Hatsune Miku ~ [DL] by RainwaterPearls on DeviantArt

MY RIN PACK (Original source, although I have since removed the download):

[MMD] ~ Montecore Rin ~ [DL] by RainwaterPearls on DeviantArt

MEGACollector's Theft: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery?q=montecore

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McChipy's Original Winx Models

McChipy - Hobbyist, General Artist | DeviantArt

MEGACollector's Theft: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery/89756412/winx-club

Maydayfireball's YYB Edits

maydayfireball - Hobbyist, Artist | DeviantArt

MEGACollectors Reuploads: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery?q=yyb

xDreamShardsx Koron Edits

xDreamShardsx - Hobbyist, Digital Artist | DeviantArt

MEGACollector's Reuploads: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery?q=koron

どっと's Miku Models

どっと - BowlRoll

どっとのユーザーページです

MEGACollector's Reuploads: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery/89004537/hatsune-miku

Sour's Official Rin and Len Models

Sour式鏡音リン・レンVer.2.01 - BowlRoll

Sour暄の作品です。

MEGACollector's Reuploads: https://www.deviantart.com/megacollector/gallery?q=sour

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This is just a small portion of the models that MEGACollector has stolen. They have stolen both edits and official models and reuploaded them without permission.

Those of you who have had their models and model edits reuploaded, I have sent you private notes if I found any of your models. I also sent warnings to those who have been stolen from during the prior LyraLaney situation just to make you aware of the situation.

[heeyeonx2]

Might aswell post it here, i currently have model slots open in case anyone's interested~ Feel free to contact me on twitter at @HeeyeonX2 and to read my TOS as well as look at my portfolio available at https://heeyeonx2.carrd.co

[ryunochie]

RAY-MMD lighting tips: a translation by ryuu

The following tutorial is an English translation of the original one in Japanese by ngreeed. (WARNING: the website is NSFW)

Let’s get started? If you just landed on this tutorial for advanced MMDers and is wondering what the hell is going on, there are beginner Raycast tutorials in Learn MMD! Also, if you feel like reading more about rendering tips, I suggest taking a look at my other tutorial: advanced MMD rendering tutorial (and why you should care).

Content Index:

Introduction

Lighting: introduction

Lighting: basics

Fog

Other Tips

Final Notes

Introduction to Lighting Content Index:

Directional Light

Rectangle Light

Sphere Light

Point Light

Spot Light

Spot Light IES

Disk Light

Tube Light

Basics of Lighting Content Index:

Ambient

Shadow

Fog

IES

LED

IBL

GIF

Fog Content Index:

Atmospheric Fog

Ground Fog

Volumetric Cube And Sphere

1. INTRODUCTION

This compilation was brought together by the MMD community and contemplates ngreeed’s own experiences with fog and lighting usages. Every picture shown in this translation can be found in the original documentations on Iwara and GitHub.

It was translated from Japanese to English by ryuu with written permission from the author to share it on my blog and add information. The translation was done with the aid of the online translator DeepL and my friends’ help. This tutorial has no intention in replacing the original author’s.

  2. LIGHTING: INTRODUCTION

By learning lighting, you’ll have more freedom in directing your videos, but it’s only for those who are confident that they understand how to use Ray-mmd, because it’s a pre-requisite and an additional part of understanding how to use skybox and materials. If you’re unsure about the other two items, start by reading this wiki.

Originally, surface lights in a 3DCG software are characterized by their ability to create soft shadows, but the surface lights used in Ray-MMD are very difficult to handle and don’t provide much benefit, so we recommend using point lights or directional lights.

Translator’s note: for those wondering what lights are available in Raycast, there’s a translation below of the wiki’s list.

2.1 Directional Light

Directional light simulates lighting hitting an object from an infinite distance. The angle of each ray reaching the object is negligible and the rays will always be parallel to each other, so it is also called sunlight.

Directional light doesn’t take into account the coordinates of the light source and won’t affect the lighting effect when placed in any position of the scene. Only the rotation will affect the lighting, because of the nature of directional light requires shading calculations for the whole scene.

Therefore its computational overhead is the largest among all multi-source shadows, and its shadow quality is only suitable for lighting characters at very high quality, which you may use when you want to attach a bone to the main light source.

2.2 Rectangle Light

The light source will shine from a plane towards a fixed range. It’s used to simulate monitors, screens, smartphones, etc.

Since the light source of the area light needs to consider the volume of the light source, the real calculation of its shadow in real time is very difficult to do. It’s recommended to use spot light shadow instead.

  2.3 Sphere Light

The light is emitted from the location of the light source to the surrounding area and the volume of the light source is taken into account to illuminate all the objects within the range.

Since the light source of the area light needs to consider the volume of the light source, the real calculation of its shadow in real time is very difficult to do, so the point light source shadow is used instead.

2.4 Point Light

Light source from a point, uniformly emitting light to the surrounding area, all objects within the range of light.

The point light source needs to calculate the shadows of objects within the range and will lead to a large shadow calculation overhead, while its shadow quality isn’t suitable for character lighting.

2.5 Spot Light

Spotlight dosn’t take into account the volume of the light source from a point, in a fixed direction to a certain range of cone angle irradiation object. The brightness of the edges of the ball will gradually fade and the angle of the ball can be controlled by the (Angle +/-) morph.

It’s used to simulate lampshade, flashlight and a car high beam. The quality of shadows is the best of all light sources, so it’s very suitable for irradiating the character on the simulation of stage lighting.

  2.6 Spot Light IES

Sampling IES textures simultaneously on the behavior of the spotlight.

IES defines the luminous flux of its light at different angles, so that certain areas will be brighter or darker, thus simulating light coming through certain places and shining around the scene.

  2.7 Disk Light

The light source will be irradiated from a plane object towards a fixed range. It’s used to simulate light from afar, because the light source of the area light needs to consider the volume of the light source.

The calculation of its shadow in real time is very difficult to do, so use spotlight shadow instead.

  2.8 Tube Light

Uniform illumination of the surrounding objects. It’s used to simulate the light source of a lamp, because the light source of the area light needs to consider its volume

The calculation of its shadow in real time is very difficult to do, so use a point light source shadow instead.

  3. LIGHTING: BASICS

Before explaining the parameters, let's start with an explanation of how to use the Lighting folder.

In the Lighting folder of ray-mmd, there are 10 different .pmx's to load into the MMD and their respective folders. Basically, the MME of the light will assign the .pmx's in the Default (Ambient/LED/GIF/IBL) folder of the respective light folder to the light’s .fx. .....lightning.... .fx is assigned to the LightMap tab of MME, and ...fog... .fx is assigned to the FogMap tab of MME.

Translator’s note: a fog .fx can be assigned to LightMap, but it’ll produce only fog.

Once you know this, you can play around with the lights and learn what you can do with them.

This spreadsheet shows the parameters and .fx available for each light, along with a brief explanation. The explanation of the terms is pretty much a translation.

3.1 Ambient

Reference: twitter.com

Assign the .fx in the Default Ambient folder to the LightMap to create a light without reflections or highlights when a material with high parameters such as Specular is lit. It is good to use it when loading multiple lights.

DirectionalLight is located in the Default folder, not in the DefaultAmbient folder. 

  3.2 Shadow

There are four types of shadow: low, medium, high and very high. If you assign it, when light (or fog) hits the model, it won’t shine on the model beyond it. Rather than increasing the shadow, it’ll stop when the light hits the model. In other words, it isn’t attached to the initial light, the light will be brightened nonetheless.

Default spot light.

The same spot light with shadow (very high).

3.3 Fog

When fog is loaded, light streaks are created at the location of the light emitted by the light. There are also special parameters called MiePhase and MieDensity, but be aware that other parameters aren’t isolated. The godray may or may not be displayed depending on the angle and position of the camera. So be careful.

Godray representation using volumetric fog and disk light.

  3.4 IES

Reference: unrealengine.com

Simply put, it’s a light which displays the distortion caused by the reflective surface of the lighting fixture, the shape of the bulb, and the lens effect.

It can express a light closer to the one you have at home than a straight spot light like the ones used on stage. You can think of it as basically spot light with just a little distortion in the shape of the light. A point light IES is also spot light.

  3.5 LED

Reference: twitter.com

The light source itself is the same as rectangle light, but it can display AVI images or screen images.

In order to display images on the LED light source, load DummyScreen.x in the Extension folder and set the Background (B) in the upper left corner of MMD to ON mode. You can also load the background AVI and change the mode to display any image.

If you just want to display the image, you can set the material of your favorite model to material_screen, but you can use the LED as a light source for the image.

Translator’s note: in practice, it looks like this. In a more straight forward way to explain this, load the LED light and add main.fx to it. Then, load the dummy and select any AVI file or just enable the capture mode. The LED will start capturing the screen and emit light. You can play with the RBG sliders and all. I added a volumetric cube for the dark room effect and Sugiura-san for you to see how the panel behaves. Whenever there’s a change in the captured screen, the light behaves accordingly i.e. a red screen emits red light; a mostly white screen with green details emits white-ish.

3.6 IBL

This and the GIF sections were writen by the translator, ryuu, as the original author requested information about it.

IBL stands for Image Based Lighting, which is what Raycast does! The image is projected into a sphere and it samples the data to light the objects. All of the skyboxes we use have images in the .dds format for easier rendering.

According to the spreadsheet, the only light capable of using IBL is sphere. To activate it, head to the Default IBL folder instead of the default one that opens when loading light properties. You’ll notice the sphere reacts with weaker lighting, you have to increase the intensity.

The following images are color tests with sphere IBL. The most visible differences are in how RG and RBG react: they produce shades of red and yellow, then white and pink respectively.

Now with disabled IBL, this making the sphere another common light. The default is very strong compared to IBL, Zhao-san hand’s shadow is even huge on the door behind him.

The .dds used was the default one in the Default IBL folder. I haven’t experimented with a different one yet, plus I believe it isn’t any .dds image that’ll work there. If we follow the logic of how custom skydomes are created, a HDR image is needed and you have to “craft” them.

  3.7 GIF

A rectangle light can load .gif images and project them on their light, Just load the .fx inside the Default GIF folder to activate it. The default GIF is the following. However, when loaded as light, it doesn’t animate and has some distortions on the edges.

For now, the only advantage I see in using a GIF light is to mimic a projector effect at the cinema. You can use custom images by renaming the default one to rance1 and the new one to rance.

The projection’s size depends on the rectangle’s, so a small rectangle will show a small GIF. Also, keep in mind that the projection is a mirror of the original image.

4. FOG

The fog can be used to create realistic perspective, smoke, and air, and it can also be used in conjunction with fog lights to change the atmosphere. It’s important to note that when the fog is loaded, it’s rarely displayed in Model Edit mode, so be sure to check it in Camera mode. In this case, you may need to tweak the model display order a little to get it to show up.

There are four types of fogs: atmospheric fog, ground fog, volumetric cube and volumetric sphere.

4.1 Atmospheric Fog

If you don't know what you're doing, but want to use a fog, just load this to get a sense of perspective (or rather, fading in the distance). So if you have a stage that extends far into the distance, you can use this to get a certain atmosphere.

Also, only the atmospheric fog has multiple fog maps, which can be found in the AtmosphericFog folder with a godray .fx file. You can apply godray to the lighting (sunlight) in MMD and, by assigning a fog map with ...without sky... .fx, you can disable the fog effect on the skybox.

You can also disable the fog effect for skyboxes by assigning a fog map with ...without sky.... .fx.

The number of parameters is overwhelming and difficult to adjust, but it may be easier if you think that the parameters with Mie are related to the lighting (sunlight) in MMD.

Without fog.

With atmospheric fog and changed density and range values. The farther away the image is, the lower the saturation and lightness become. The perspective is clearer. It’s rare to see much difference, but the atmosphere changes quite a bit with and without the atmospheric fog.

4.2 Ground Fog

When loaded, the fog is displayed based on the ground, and its color and height can be adjusted using morphs. The number of adjustable parameters is small, but if you adjust them, you can use it in the same way as the ground-based atmospheric fog.

Without ground fog.

With ground fog.

  4.3 Volumetric Cube And Sphere

Unlike the other fogs, these two are only loaded and not applied to the entire room. At first, they only appear small at the foot of the screen and need to be resized to fit the room. By the way, they are basically the same, just round or square. The advantage is that it can be assigned to a limited space only.

Without light.

With light.

With light and volumetric fog. It might be good for a dusty atmosphere in a closed room.

5. OTHER TIPS

If you feel that your PC can't handle it, you can lower the shadow to low and get by.

The skybox time of day can be used as a second atmospheric fog which is easy to handle since it is built into the skybox. If you turn off EnvLightMap, Main and MaterialMap, it won't interfere with other skyboxes. It's pretty easy to use, but not for everyone.

Turn on Bokeh (DOF effect of Ray-MMD) and pull the MeasureMode morph of ray-controller to the right to bring the ray.x accessory into focus.

It's a good idea to set the SSAOMap of eyes and face to 0.

6. FINAL NOTES

Stages shown in this tutorial: P.T by G_Wuuuuu, warehouse by hiro K, skyscrapper by 化身バレッタ and abandoned city by NOB.

Models by SEGA.

I tried to keep the translation as faithful as possible to the original documentation. Thank you, ngreeed, for allowing me to share your tutorial with non-Japanese speakers. 

Also, I absorbed many knowledge from this tutorial and rendered a new image using the improved technique. Only the sphere light had fog. The colors were applied after adjusting all the lights in their black and white counterpart. Retouched in GIMP.

[cinderpeachs-3d-space]

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"A curious kitten, who can be found pondering and questioning the wonders of the world, and all its secrets. Their eyes always gazing up at the sky (often trips over stuff because of it) always  sure to keep an eye out for a shooting star or even a UFO (dreams one day to meet an alien). An open minded soul , ready to hear anyone out about their thoughts and theories (and course sharing some of their own as well) Best friends with Celeste, loves to hear stories and facts about the stars, and loves to add more to their ever growing collection of space/star theme items in their home. Twinkle's favorite hobby is combing the beach for star shards after a big shower. They can  be found sleeping in a lawn chair at the beach the night after a star shower."

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Made an Animal Crossing Custom Villager then tried to make fake amiibo camp cutscene and oof

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✨Credit✨

⭐Animal crossing Village Cat (used here as a base)- Nintendo/Sab64/Ziella (downloaded from DeviantArt)

⭐Texture Edit - me (obviously)

⭐Outfit Texture Inspired from CharSlu (Night Sky Dress)

⭐Stars,Halo, Star Halo- MonoCereal/Moyonote (on DA)

⭐UFO and Alien Doll- Kawaii-Noodle-Boy(on DA)

⭐AC Shovel- Nintendo/Sab64/Ziella (downloaded from DeviantArt)

⭐Star shard/Star bit - Cabbage bowl (on BowlRoll)