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MMD Blender Tutorial Addendum — Description
UPDATE August 2015: You might find it useful to use my blender setup I have here www.mediafire.com/download/3hj…
It has the two blender scripts already installed. You might still have to have python installed. Also you might have to right-click on the file and then choose properties. Unblock then apply before extracting the file.
You will have to enable scripts in user preferences.

It has been about a year so I thought I'd address some issues that others have had when trying to use my tutorials. These problems mostly deal with importing and exporting.

I've managed to successfully use up to blender version 2.69 with the scripts. Blender 2.7 and above seem to give errors with importing and exporting.

If you are having problems with pymeshio, then there is another script you can use. Head on over to onedrive.live.com/?cid=CE4C74E… and download mmd_script_263. I use that script mostly now for importing and seems to work well. Still use pymeshio to export, however.

Sometimes a script won't work because its original archive has been blocked by windows. To fix this, right-click on the archive(rar or zip). On the General tab you may see Security and Unblock towards the bottom. Choose to unblock. This tells windows that the archive is trusted and allows its scripting functionality to be extracted intact.

If the model is in pmx format, then try to import and export with pmx. The reason is that some pmx models have vertices with weights attached to three or more bones. Pmd can only do two.

Lastly is an issue I've encountered many times. You import a model and spend hours on it. When you go to export it then you get an error or the model no longer has any bones. Terribly frustrating. What I do now is first I import the model. Delete loose vertices and remove doubles like I mentioned in a previous tutorial. Then I export it to make sure that it works without issue.

Hope these tips help those who may be having trouble. Good luck.