PMX Editor Resources
Latest update: 2025 / 10 / 11
Compilation of PMX editor guides / tutorials / tips / references that I could find so far. All belong to the authors respectively.
This page's purpose is to help beginners use PMX Editor comfortably.
Clicking the linked titles will lead you to the pages.
Please note that some tutorials may be old but they are still applicable.
Most of these come from DeviantArt which is actually a good place to find such tutorials (in my opinion).
The list will be updated whenever I have time to find new ones.
GENERAL
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| ➤ Installation Guide for MMD, MME, PMD, PMX and MMM | MMDYesButterfly |
| ➤ Fixing Your Missing DLLs for PMXeditor | MMDYesButterfly |
| ➤ Navigate PMX Editor's User Interface | Kana Fuyuko |
| ➤ PMX Editor Read Me Translation (8 parts) | Amenrenet |
| ➤ How to fix Version 2.0 Error | MikuEvalon |
| ➤ PMX Editor Keyboard Shortcuts | Wampa842 |
| ➤ PMXView Buttons
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
(This is for the original JP build but the layout is pretty much the same as the ENG builds) |
PMX Editor Tutorials |
| ➤ Tension Movement | candiedchiliarch |
VERTEX / MODEL / MODELLING
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| ➤ White Model Glitch | Amenrenet |
| ➤ Simple Primitives with Efude | Amenrenet |
| ➤ Deleting Hidden Vertices: The Easy Way | Supurreme |
| ➤ The Correct Way to Import Parts | Trackdancer |
| ➤ Join Vertices Without Affecting UV
(For shortcut, you can actually just use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.) |
PMX Editor Tutorials |
| ➤ Swap Diagonal in Mesh | PMX Editor Tutorials |
| ➤ Adding A Head to A Base | lensdeaddog |
| ➤ Average Normals | Me |
| ➤ Faux Smooth Normals | Me |
| ➤ Converting a game-rip model to MMD [In-Depth, Part 1]
(I personally would use Noesis rather than Blender to keep the vertex data.) |
PromiseMeStars |
| ➤ Transparency Problem | ReggieAndCheese |
| ➤ How I edit faces | HatsuneDKaname |
| ➤ How to use PMX Primitive | HatsuneDKaname |
| ➤ Face Edit | vilecrybaby |
BONES
PHYSICS / JOINTS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| ➤ Various Physics Tutorials | Amenrenet |
| ➤ Physic Stuff | SteelDollS |
| ➤ Joints Stuff | SteelDollS |
| ➤ Soft Body Physics tutorial
(SoftBodies are only usable in MMM (MikuMikuMoving) so you can ignore if you’re only using MMD.) |
DeidaraChanHeart |
| ➤ Tip for Skirt Clipping | PMX Editor Tutorials |
| ➤ Attach Physics via Joints | SteelDollS |
| ➤ Automatically Make Physics + Given Base Smooth Physics Values | Kana Fuyuko |