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For those who love kawaii and moe type chibis ...

This is the longest tutorial I've ever written and it is pretty comprehensive. It covers almost everything you need to do make a fault free edit in the PMD editor (but cannot and does not cover everything). If you follow the steps carefully, I can almost guarantee you will have a fault free model at the end - and a darn cute one too.

Now I did screw up myself in this process, so a correction is in order and this concerns the area around the neck. The tutorial shows the neck being reconnected to the body before I realized I forgot to re-size it. So when you maneuver the head back into place, bear in mind that the neck bones won't align as shown in the picture. All you need to do is to get the head into position and manually move the neck bones into the correct position before merging them (or merge them and correct the position). Other than that minor, but important omission, the tutorial is correct.

If you have any questions put these in the comments - please be specific if you want a coherent answer. If your question is about how to use a specific tool, chances are that there is a tutorial in my gallery that answers your question already, so please look there first. This tutorial does already cover most of what you need to know but due to constraints with the format, it was necessary to be brief - and also I'm assuming that you're not a complete retard (j/k).

If you want to add attachment bones to the hands, the tutorial to do that is here: [link]
If you need more information on labeling the tutorial is here: [link]
If you need more information on group labeling the tutorial is here: [link]
If you need more information on adding a mother bone the tutorial is here: [link]
If you want the stage shown at the end of the tutorial it is here: [link]
If you want the original UsaUsa model, try here: [link]
(UsaUsa link courtesy of Citrus Smoothie)

CREDITS
UsaUsa model - Kanihira
PMD - English language version (but you can and probably should use the latest version - but it's UI is in Japanese)
MMD - 8.03
Photoshop 7 was used to assemble and create the tutorial (and I nearly ran out of memory - sheesh).

PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS TUTORIAL TO CREATE A VERSION OF THIS MODEL AND OFFER IT FOR DOWNLOAD.

I would consider doing something like that as being totally morally reprehensible. Besides which, it will be in breach of Kanihira's rules. My purpose for writing this tutorial is to provide MMD users with solid information on how to use the PMD editor to edit models properly so that at the end of their efforts they will have a unique, fault free and attractive model to add to their own private collections.

Your compliance with this simple request would be most appreciated.

UsaUsa Terms of Use: [link]

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT ASK FOR MODEL LINKS
(Since I've already given the links ... ^^)

ERRATA 1

After the head and the torso are reconnected, the collar bone area needs to be re-weighted/adjusted otherwise this area can tear through the dress. The diagram at the end of the link below shows what needs to be done to prevent this from happening.

My apologies for the omission.

The steps to correct this is posted here; it's a very simple fix: [link]
(07-13-2013)

ERRATA 2

The tutorial panel says that the adjustment ratio for motion data should be 0.55. Actually it should be closer to 0.45; the original UsaUsa model is almost chibi size in itself.
(07-15-2013)

Description
For those who love kawaii and moe type chibis ...

This is the longest tutorial I've ever written and it is pretty comprehensive. It covers almost everything you need to do make a fault free edit in the PMD editor (but cannot and does not cover everything). If you follow the steps carefully, I can almost guarantee you will have a fault free model at the end - and a darn cute one too.

Now I did screw up myself in this process, so a correction is in order and this concerns the area around the neck. The tutorial shows the neck being reconnected to the body before I realized I forgot to re-size it. So when you maneuver the head back into place, bear in mind that the neck bones won't align as shown in the picture. All you need to do is to get the head into position and manually move the neck bones into the correct position before merging them (or merge them and correct the position). Other than that minor, but important omission, the tutorial is correct.

If you have any questions put these in the comments - please be specific if you want a coherent answer. If your question is about how to use a specific tool, chances are that there is a tutorial in my gallery that answers your question already, so please look there first. This tutorial does already cover most of what you need to know but due to constraints with the format, it was necessary to be brief - and also I'm assuming that you're not a complete retard (j/k).

If you want to add attachment bones to the hands, the tutorial to do that is here: [link]
If you need more information on labeling the tutorial is here: [link]
If you need more information on group labeling the tutorial is here: [link]
If you need more information on adding a mother bone the tutorial is here: [link]
If you want the stage shown at the end of the tutorial it is here: [link]
If you want the original UsaUsa model, try here: [link]
(UsaUsa link courtesy of Citrus Smoothie)

CREDITS
UsaUsa model - Kanihira
PMD - English language version (but you can and probably should use the latest version - but it's UI is in Japanese)
MMD - 8.03
Photoshop 7 was used to assemble and create the tutorial (and I nearly ran out of memory - sheesh).

PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS TUTORIAL TO CREATE A VERSION OF THIS MODEL AND OFFER IT FOR DOWNLOAD.

I would consider doing something like that as being totally morally reprehensible. Besides which, it will be in breach of Kanihira's rules. My purpose for writing this tutorial is to provide MMD users with solid information on how to use the PMD editor to edit models properly so that at the end of their efforts they will have a unique, fault free and attractive model to add to their own private collections.

Your compliance with this simple request would be most appreciated.

UsaUsa Terms of Use: [link]

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT ASK FOR MODEL LINKS
(Since I've already given the links ... ^^)

ERRATA 1

After the head and the torso are reconnected, the collar bone area needs to be re-weighted/adjusted otherwise this area can tear through the dress. The diagram at the end of the link below shows what needs to be done to prevent this from happening.

My apologies for the omission.

The steps to correct this is posted here; it's a very simple fix: [link]
(07-13-2013)

ERRATA 2

The tutorial panel says that the adjustment ratio for motion data should be 0.55. Actually it should be closer to 0.45; the original UsaUsa model is almost chibi size in itself.
(07-15-2013)