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Main Window, Edit > Plug-In > User > UV Editor is EXTREMELY USEFUL
Lets you see how UVs map onto the tex
Also lets you create UV morphs
Also lets you select the vertices on the tex, then select the corresponding verts on the 3d model


SCALING FIX!!!!!!!!!! for PMXE in Windows 10
* go to PmxEditor_x64.exe, rightclick > properties > compatability tab > "Change high DPI settings"
* check "Use this setting to fix scaling problems for this program instead of the one in Settings"
* in dropdown menu, select "I open this program"
* check "Override high DPI scaling behavior"
* in dropdown menu, select "System"
* click Ok, click OK, and you're done!


"Weight export/load plugin"
When copying A to B, each vertex's coordinates are used to copy weights, not vertex ID
When exporting, only exports the selected vertices
When loading, only modifies the selected vertices
Sets dest verts to have weight of nearest source vert, no fancy interpolation or smoothing
Works best with clothing very close to skin, greater distance means worse results
Does NOT work well with accordion fold meshes
Must ensure A region is larger than B or weird stuff happens (A is whole body, B is shoes)


"Virtual Axis" vA button, used to move bones along their local axes or vertices along their normals
Can be used with the "Edit Mode" to scale wristband nicely into arm, select all verts THEN select the bone (uses virtual axis of last selected thing) then scale X=1 Y=0 Z=0 and boom its colinear

"deform after physics" is good for hidden endpoints that don't have fake bodies associated with them, but only makes it look nice in PMXE Transform view, MMD doesn't notice or care
"phys + bone alignment" = rotate but not move, no idea where the name came from tho

reset UVs: It might be a roundabout way, but if you go to Edit - UV Morph - Create UV Morph, it'll open a window. Select just the thing you want to reset, highlight it, make sure Set Initial UV is checked, then load a texture and create. You don't even need to have any UV morphs listed. It'll reset the map based on your current view angle is (so it's limited in application)
better to use Blender for UV unwrapping tho

SOFT SELECTION: right click on the handles, go to "PULL"
or, use "O" button to open "object" menu, use dropdown near bottom to change to "tension movement"
	move "centerpoint" with scale handles, apply with move handles
	normal is linear weight, A is sharp, B is rounded
Rotate-center and Scale-center: rot/scale around specified centerpoint


masking window: M button or F3
split materials: with exactly 1 material visible, select faces/verts and then right-click that material in the masking window to split
join from the materials tab

Masking Window has many more features:
Select "Weight Bone" radio button, then check certain bones... visible materials dont change but can only select vertices which are controlled by those bones!
Select "Vertex Morph" radio button, select vertex morphs, can only select vertexes controlled by those morphs!
Enable some materials, then Weight Bone > Select Bone (parts) to mask only bones which have weight on the visible materials
Change tab to bone/body/joint, has buttons to mask related bone/body/joint from currently masked bone/body/joint

Object Editor: E or F4
ways to move/rotate/scale stuff
also allows for mirror editing
move vertices along normals: click on "NRM", then use the "AXIS" button/box

Selection Guide window: G or F7
sort of a clipboard area for holding selections of objects
(from View window) Edit > Object > Align to > XYZ: moves selected objects to the xyz of the first item saved in the selection guide
(from View window) Edit > Object > Align to Guide > XYZ: moves selected objects to the xyz *saved above the list of items in the selection guide*, this holds the xyz of whichever list item you clicked last. clicking "SEL" does not change this.

weight painter: W button
select W4, start, ctrl+click to sample the weights of a vert & see what controls it
if vertices are selected when you click "start" in weight painter it automatically checks the "vertex mask" checkbox
weight painter: "blend tool" is immensely useful, but modifies all verts it can extending to the left&right of the line... select one row of verts at a time, start weight painting mode masked to only those verts, and blend that way. be sure to UNCHECK "BDEF2" checkbox

With Transform window open in background, go to Weight Painting, click on tiny + to the right of Start, then click On
Go to Transform window and start moving bones
Go back to view window, the mesh will update the same as it looks in the Transform window
EXTREMELY USEFUL for getting live feedback about weight tweaking because this can be done while still in the weight-painting mode, or for figuring out which specific vertex you need to modify to fix a spike in the Transform window
Also useful for simply selecting all vertices that are controlled by a bone, just make the bone move 1000 units out in transform window or something
!!! IMPORTANT: do not save until after you click On again to disable this deform sync !!!


(main window) Edit > Batch Name Editor: see all JP/EN names in table form
*** can copy entire column & paste into text editor, each row separated by newlines
*** can copy from text editor & paste into column!!!


(from main window) Edit > Vertex > Select Non-reference face(s): selects all orphan vertices, shift-delete to remove them!
To delete "invalid faces":
	first delete orphan vertices
	in view window, enable vertex-select and face-select
	open masking subwindow and go to "select all"
	ctrl+A to select everything everywhere
	in view window, go to Edit > Face > Delete Invalid Faces

(from View window) Edit > Update to reload textures

(from View window) Edit > Object > Mirror Object, copies & mirrors. added to the same material, even copies into the same morphs! doesn't mirror weights tho
(from View window) Edit > Weight > Mirror Vertex
	copies weights FROM MIRROR vertices ONTO CURRENT vertices
	only works if almost exact mirror and only works if jp bone names prefixed with jp L/R
Edit > Bone > Left/Right Bone Alignment (Mirror):
	copy the position FROM CURRENT bone onto the already existing MIRROR bone
	also changes selection to select the mirror bone
	doesn't mirror the visual link offsets however

(from View window) Edit > Weight > Average Weights: must be selecting the bone (exactly 1 bone) who has the relevant weight as well as the vertices whose weights you want to change, must manually normalize weights afterward
(from View window) Edit > Weight > Smooth Weights: "half average", set each weight to halfway between current and result of "average weights"

Material > Duplicate: copies all faces/vertices and makes new copies of the related morphs

When making a vertex morph, can mirror the edits! Edit > Mirror once you're done but before you click "append"
In Morph Editor, can reset/remove verts from a morph by using selecting & Edit > Set Original Position

(from main window) ctrl+L = transfer selection (vertices, bones, faces, whatever) from model view to list view, use to export only selection to CSV... exponentially slower with larger selections tho

ALT+wheel to change size of circle selector

"join vertex - near": only operates on selected vertices

in ModelView: Edit > Normal:
"average normals": set all the selected vertices to have the average normal of all selected vertices, duh
"average normals - near": !!! BUGGED !!! for each selected vertex, find all other vertices within the specified radius (INCLUDING NOT SELECTED VERTICES, EVEN VERTS IN HIDDEN MATERIALS) and set all the vertices within the radius (INCLUDING NOT SELECTED VERTICES, EVEN VERTS IN HIDDEN MATERIALS) to the average of all the vertices within the radius
Also "average normals - near" sometimes just goes batshit crazy and sets normals to incorrect values with no clear cause
"average normals - face": sets each selected normal to the average of the perpendicular lines for each face it is a part of


Select bone chain + empty IK > View Edit > Bone > Make IK: fills the empty IK bone with the bone chain, normally the "target" of the IK is a hidden bone but it needs to be visible when this command is ran, then you make it hidden afterwards



rigid body settings:
	"movement" / "rotation" = how quickly its energy decays in the absence of any other bodies to interact with, i.e. ringing/bouncing
	"mass" = momentum/intertia, also which body gets deflected when two collide

edit>vertex>"show faces" means select face from vertex


ambient: "always-color", color in shadow
diffuse: +color when illuminated
specular: shininess color
rule-of-thumb: texure color + ambient=0.5 + diffuse=0.75-1.0

MATERIAL ORDER MATTERS! put underneath stuff at idx0 and transparent stuff at the end! draw order!

G-SHAD: (ground shadow, effect casting?) on for everything but eye reflection
S-MAP: (self map, ??? cast a shadow in PMXE? on self?) on for everything but some eyes
S-SHAD: receive shadows