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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
Title Author
➤ Bones Tutorial MMDYesButterfly
➤ Mirroring Bones RageXYZ
➤ IK Bones And Following Joints ShadowlesWOLF
➤ Advanced Bone Tutorial Part 4 vasilnatalie
➤ Making Bones that Spin on Their Own Calculated-Lie
➤ Setup IK for Arms

(You can also use t0r0's 'Arm IK Plus' or PaperGuitar's 'IK Maker X' plugins for this.)

Jargonfox
➤ Making Magic Bones [Ex. Eye Center Bone] Seahorny
➤ How to Fix Twist Bones/X-Rotational Bones Fan-Tasy Ruby
➤ Lessen Arm Clipping (Mostly for Chibi Models) Sano
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
MORPHS
Title Author
➤ Making Hidden Morphs

(You can also use SarinaCFG's 'Hide Morph' plugin for this.)

Amenrenet
➤ How To Make Group Morphs JustLluiji
➤ How To Make Impulse Morphs JustLluiji
➤ How to Fix Broken Mouth EllieSeren
➤ Bone Morphs EllieSeren
➤ Changing Eyewhites (aka Scleras) Kilsoph
➤ Creating Winks from Blinks

(You can also use sevrunear's 'Simple Divide Morph' plugin for this.)

maikurial
➤ How to Fix a Facial Morph That Clips The Face MMDKoala
➤ How to Make Facials (Vertex Morphs) HatsuneDKaname
➤ Making Facials (Vertex Morphs) from Zero HatsuneDKaname
RIG / WEIGHT PAINTING
Title Author
➤ Model Rigging Basics SAB64
➤ How To Automatically Rig Skirts/Dresses + Smooth Physics Settings Kana Fuyuko
➤ How To Automatically Rig Hair Kana Fuyuko
➤ How to Have Better Rigging When Fitting Clothes PMX Editor Tutorials
➤ From Scratch Model Rigging killy chan
➤ Guide to Rigging and Adding Bones Tehrainbowllama
➤ Basic Eye Rigging GrassyNeko-chan
➤ Smooth Rig ColorsOfOrion
➤ Rigging + Rigging Plugin Tutorial Fan-Tasy Ruby
➤ Rigging Something Similar to Open Jackets with Skirt Plugin Me
➤ Rigging with Deformation Syncronization Amenrenet
➤ Manual Rigging Clothes with Skirt Plugin *enable CC* 大白菜惠惠
➤ Weight Transfer Plugin Tutorial: Easy Rigging MMDKoala
➤ Rigging in PMX Dedication Is Dead!
DISPLAY
Title Author
➤ How to Remove Unnecessary Groups MMD3DCGParts
➤ How To Name Sliders SteelDollS
➤ Solution for The Bone Registry Error RageXYZ
➤ Batch Translate gummy-frog
➤ Display Panel Tutorial Nanashione
➤ Display Pane Tutorial coldmcgriddle
➤ Cleaning up the Display Panel Ziv27
➤ BoneFrameSorter0210 【 Another way to sort out bones and frames 】 Xiu
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