[FE:SD MMD] Midnight Escape (RayCast Test) By Nintendraw Watch

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An imagined scene from around the time of New Mystery's fourth bonus episode, in which Camus spirits Nyna to safety in Aurelis. Something like this is likely to appear in my epic music video with these two (three if you count the horse, of course).



This was quite tricky to pose (this horse is incompatible with other horse motions, so I had to manually recreate canters and gallops), and is also my first test of the RayCast Shader. This thing is incredibly fiddly for me--while I can use MMD itself just fine (though I hesitate to attempt to render videos with this, partly because of the following point), rendering images is a pain in the arse. I have to make all the effects just right before hitting that Render button because once I render the image, the PMM glitches up effectively to the point of nonrecoverability, and when I reopen the PMM (which I can still use to pose models and such), everything turns black or black-shaded or glitched. Also, I can't use skydomes with this--ones compatible with any other shader have weird transparency issues, and ones that come with RayCast make MMD run out of memory. That said, when it cooperates, it does make outstanding pictures. The thing effectively has Adobe program functions in it--like multiple color adjustments and color-shift and even more (such as "Bloom Threshold")! (I suspect this is necessary since RayCast probably isn't compatible with standard MMD effects either XD) This is essentially a raw MMD render, excepting the background motion blur.

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Published : Apr 19, 2017