You will see nothing on-screen… until you use the Y-Rotate bone control to swing the light around so that it shines on your model. Before you do anything else, turn up the R+, G+, and B+ morph sliders to mid range.

From inside the Lighting folder, load the DirectionalLight.pmx model.

Build the light on the stage and model… no “tutorial” here for that… you just need to try everything and see what you like. Fiddle with the many morph-slider options. When it comes back to life, you will see your model is now enhanced dark, but enhanced. Your computer, at least MY computer, will lock up for several minutes as it crunches the numbers for you.

Now, as an Accessory, load the ray.x included in your Raycast folder.

In the MME menu (upper right of MMD screen) Select Effect Mapping, select your model, and Set Effect by navigating to your Raycast folder and inside the Main folder, choose main.fx.

Load a Skybox model… and ignore it, for now… just let it be there, in the way.

If you load it early in your project, you will go crazy waiting for your computer to do every little step. (Raycast is “computer intensive” and your machine will hardly be able to crawl once you load Raycast.

Open MMD and create your entire animation, saving Raycast as a final step.

I find that Raycast is a complicated effect with “more than one way to skin a cat”… so these are the steps I go through to invoke Raycast: LearnMMD’s GloriaTheAnimator, GTA, for short, wrote an article to introduce us to the Raycast effect. Today I experimented with the idea of modifying my model’s texture file images so as to compensate for that Raycast color desaturation… and had great success! How do I use Raycast? )… and, when I subject her to Raycast, her already pale skin gets even lighter… she looks like a porcelain figure.

I often experiment with my Crimrose model (CyberStep, Inc. Raycast takes your “ink and paint”-looking model and transforms it into an almost photographic image of a 3D object. I am learning how to use the Raycast Effect. How can I bring color back into my model when I use the Raycast effect? Modifying model texture color toĬompensate for Raycast color Desaturation I love Raycast but how do I compensate for the Raycast color desaturation? My model’s skin goes white when I use the Raycast effect.

Raycast turning models black mmd