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The dance, pose or camera move a MikuMikuDance model performs, saved apart from it. Play one right here on its model, or on a stand-in when it comes alone. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your take opens in 3D, its skeleton's bones moving with their joints, every joint beside it and the player under it.
- Turn, zoom and move it • Double click to center on a point
- Every joint in a list • Hide one or see it alone
- Play, pause and scrub the take • Slow it down or speed it up
- Export • PNG, GLB, USDZ, STL and OBJ
About VMD
MikuMikuDance saves a dance, a pose or a camera move as a VMD, Vocaloid Motion Data, apart from any model, so one dance plays on every character with MMD's standard bones. Motion makers share VMDs for songs, often the dance, its lip sync and its camera in files of their own.
A VMD names the model it was made on, then lists its keys: each bone's place and turn at a frame with the curves between keys, each morph's weight, and the camera's and the light's keys, at 30 frames a second. Bones and morphs go by their Japanese names, like センター and 左足ＩＫ, so a motion moves any model whose bones bear those names.
Filepeek plays a VMD on the PMX or PMD dropped with it, every frame worked out with its curves and its legs following their IK, and a motion alone on a stand-in of MMD's standard bones. Show details counts its bone, morph and camera keys.
MikuMikuDance motion
.vmd
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Yu Higuchi, for MikuMikuDance
- Released
- 2008
Inside the file
- Made for
- The model it was made on, by name
- Bones
- A place and turn a key, with curves
- Also
- Morphs, the camera and the light
- Rate
- 30 frames a second
Opens in every browser
Filepeek plays a VMD in 3D in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download it.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open VMD
- WindowsMikuMikuDance • Blender with MMD Tools
- MacBlender with MMD Tools
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I play a VMD on my model?
Drop the VMD and the PMX or PMD together, with the model's textures. The model opens with the motion on the player.
Why does it play on a figure of bones?
A VMD holds no model. Dropped alone, it plays on a stand-in of MMD's standard bones, so you can see the dance before you pick a character.
Why doesn't the motion move my model?
A VMD moves bones by their names. A model whose bones aren't named as MMD's standard ones isn't moved, and the note says so.
Does it play the camera?
Its camera keys are counted in Show details, and the view stays yours to turn and zoom.