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Devious-Bunny — PMX Tutorial: x-rotate bones
Published: 2013-10-09 15:45:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 28201; Favourites: 514; Downloads: 859
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A tutorial starring Hunter!
First and foremost, I created this tutorial because as far as I'm aware, there are no tutorials on this as of yet.
Secondly, if you want to have x-rotate bones on your model, my friend has done a tutorial on adding special bones to models (for PMD editor).
Here it is, if you want to check it out (it includes adding other cool bones):
Thirdly... there was a thirdly, but I've forgotten it now.
Ah well, doesn't matter.
And yes, I did learn this by myself mostly with experimentation and looking at official models with working bones.
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I CAN FINALLY FIX SOME OF THE MODELS I HAVE BEEN WORKING ONNNNNN
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What if I were to just make that bone's child bone (or what ever it's called lmao) the wrist bone instead of manually trying to "connect" it there?
I'm sorry if you've answered something like this before, I'm just really curious-
But thanks for the tutorial tho, it's really helpful c:
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I followed this tutorial and another one and they just stay the same
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Other people have said the same thing, it might be that PMX Editor has updated since I made this tutorial. I don't have any suggestions as I don't edit MMD models in my spare time that much anymore, I'm sorry.
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I did this tutorial but it still doesn't work for me...
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eh, i have a probleme not with a hand but the legs..and the x-rotate is note in legs...
what do i make ?..
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i followed the tutorial and nothing happened...
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I think that's because MMD has updated this (I've not been using MMD for so long, since coming back to MMD a lot of my older models move differently now.)
For me and actually quite a few other people, this doesn't seem to work anymore. Instead of clicking that arrow, in the boxes with all the numbers put the same numbers as what the center bone has, that seems to work for me although I've not had time to fully test it.
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what is the center bone and where can i find the coordnats? o:
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It's usually the first bone (or second if you have a Master bone)
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couldn't i just...........delete them? Would that work?
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I would suggest not for two reasons:
1. Deleting them means you obviously don't want to use them, right? So just don't use them. This only happens if you want to rotate the arm with a broken x-rotation bone. If you only use the elbow/wrist bones to do this, then this tutorial doesn't apply to you.
2. If you delete the bones, you will mess up the weighting of the model and will have to ensure you delete all the other bones that would then become unnecessary or won't move properly (these are usually "invisible" bones), and completely re-weight the model's arms. You might as well just not use the bones unless you're willing to dedicate time and a lot of patience to fixing the extra problems that would come with deleting them.
It is entirely your choice, just be sure you know what you're doing and the model should work fine.
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The model i have has the x bones but when i rotate something on the arm that isn't the x bone. It
goes are weird and ugly. I don't like x bones on my models.
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If you don't use the x bones, then they're not actually what's causing the model to look weird and ugly. X bones, when working properly, make posing look a lot nicer without the unnatural pinching-appearance.
They don't affect the elbow and wrist bones, so if those are going weird but you haven't touched the x bones, I think that is more of a case that for some reason (I've not used MMD for about a year, just got back to it) bones don't seem to rotate the same way that they used to, I have to edit a lot of my models to fix the issue.
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No, the rigging is fine. Read the tutorial before commenting, this is those "x-rotation" bones, used for better posing.
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I'm still having issues with this, I have tried to fix it but when I try to follow it, I can't find any of the stuff that they show in the tutorial at all.
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All I can suggest is that you make sure you're using the most recent version of PMX Editor.
Also, if you are using Windows7 or later, make sure that before you unzip the file you right-click it, select "properties" and select "unblock" (button near the bottom) because sometimes, if you don't do this, it can mess up the program.
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Okay would I have to do the same thing since I have windows ten?
Okay thank you so much
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This saved my models!!! I can't thank you enough!
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aaa im sorry to bother but
i tried this and it seems to work in pmxe but when i load the model in mmd it doesn't work ??
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I'm sorry, my PC isn't working at the moment so I can't check this issue out D:
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ahh its okay don't worry !!
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Mistress:..yeah I need help ; n ;..I tried doing this on the finn model i have but it doesn't seem to work even asked a friend t fix it for me but she can't. I don't know whats going o n o! Please i need help Dx!
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Hi, uhm, I'm sorry for bothering you but it seems like this doesn't work on my model 
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You don't click the "axis limit" button, you click the "local" button. c:
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Where can i find the hair? and the tutorial was awesome! Thank you!
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Thanks!
oh gosh this model is so old I have no idea, I'm sorry D:
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Looks like Kaito's tda hair tbh XD
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In what way does the arm bone not work?
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Don't worry I finally just figured it out
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i hate to be creepy but how did you fix it
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Oh that's good, glad you got it working!
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I was able to fix one of the arms, but the other one still doesn't rotate correctly. Am I doing something wrong or is it the model?
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I have followed everything and it still won't work...idk what I'm doing wrong.
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Sorry, I don't know why it wouldn't be working. D:
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YOU MAY LOVE ME, I'M GLAD IT WORKS
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YEAH! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now my models won't have broken arms! Ah, when I tried to fix them I ended up getting paper thin parts of the arm, but with this I shall have successful models that are not quadruple-jointed! AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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