Because it is a system rather than merely an effect, it gives the user a lot of latitude and freedom. Unlike most MME packages, Ray-MMD is an environmental lighting system. There are good articles on this site on how to use the effect at a more advance level, but if you have never used the effect before, it is best to start here. You really need to know a little bit about what the effect is suppose to do and how it works. We will not discuss the theories nor technologies underlying the effect, except for the basics. This article will give you the basic steps on how to set up the effect and get it working. Beginner’s Guide to Using Ray-MMD ver 1.5.0 Part of the problem is that the effect comes with next to no beginner’s instructions and most of the tutorials on how to use the effect on YouTube are not particularly helpful either. It also seems to be one of the hardest for many new users to MMD to get working. Ray-MMD Advanced Lighting: A Night on the Townīeginner’s Guide: Using Ray-MMD ver 1.5.Ray-MMD is one of the most popular MME shaders currently available. RAY-MMD: Creating your own custom sky box RAY-MMD demonstration featuring texture and environmental lighting

Ray-MMD Localized Fog Effects for stunning MMD scenes RAY-MMD: Spruce up your videos with Dynamic Lighting RAY-MMD: A method to get great results fast and easy! Learn to Edit MMD Effects by Editing Raycast Materials Modifying model texture color compensates Raycast color desaturation Listed in chronological order from our first encounter through our latest updates: The List of Raycast Ray-MMD Tutorials on

is very much alive and interactive: ask questions and get answers. To learn about Raycast Ray-MMD, struggle-along with us and review the many Ray-MMD Tutorials on LearnMMD… Leave Comments and ask questions. Like everyone else, we at have been learning by starting with the “first encounter” and then by adding to our knowledge and skills as we became more familiar with the effect… with its “system”. If you are not, you will find that many menu items and subroutines will be unavailable to you. Ray-MMD and Raycast are meant to run on a Windows 10 64-bit computer. Ray-MMD is complicated for the first-time user and like everything else in MikuMikuDance, it takes practice and some experience with it before you begin to obtain satisfactory results with Raycast. You cannot simply download the effect and apply the RAY.X to your animation. The Raycast Effect, now known as RAY-MMD, is so much MORE than “an effect”… it’s a whole “visual environment” sub-system in itself!

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