MikuMikuDance

What works

Most things work out of the box on 32-bit and 64-bit, and workarounds can be done to get 32-bit MMD into a fully usable state.

Both 64-bit and 32-bit:

• Model manipulation
• Camera manipulation
• Model management (Loading / Deleting / Reordering)
• English mode
• Image rendering
• Separate window mode
• Pose and motion saving and loading
• Scene saving and loading
• Self-shadowing (no texture errors encountered).

What does not

These do not work with no known workarounds:

• Single window mode does not render correctly
• A single core is maxed out on standby

These have proper workarounds:

• Default font is ugly
• File->Render to AVI File

These have workarounds on 32-bit only:

• MikuMikuEffect
• Extra video codecs (UT Video, Lagarith)

Workarounds

To render correctly, enable View->Separate Window.

To get a better font, use winetricks to install droid.

For File->Render to AVI File, use winetricks to install vcrun2008 directshow.

• Extra video codecs will work on 32-bit only. 64-bit will complain about DirectShow not being compatible with the extra codecs.

For MikuMikuEffect on 32-bit, use winetricks to install d3dx9_43 d3dcompiler_47. Then, use winecfg to override d3d9 to (native, builtin).

In summary, for everything to work on 32-bit, here's the recipe:

1. Define a new 32-bit prefix: export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/mmd32 WINEARCH=win32
2. Install prereqs: winetricks vcrun2008 directshow d3dx9_43 d3dcompiler_47 droid
3. Enable MME by using winecfg to override d3d9: winecfg
4. Install a better codec.
5. Run MMD with that prefix: wine MikuMikuDance.exe
6. (Optional) Make a shell script to automatically run MMD under that prefix without needing to export environment variables each time.

What was not tested

• Japenese text mode
• MikuMikuPlus plugin
• Kinect integration

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Due to MME and extra video codecs only working on 32-bit, I can only recommend using 32-bit. I'm disappointed that 64-bit doesn't work well enough.

Some effects plugins use Shift-JIS text encoding and get garbled when unzipped on UTF-8 systems. They can be repaired by renaming files with ASCII names, and changing filename references inside of some files. Grep is your friend, and good luck!

I recommend Lagarith as a lossless codec because UT Video clutters the codec selection menu and not all options work.

"winetricks directshow" is overkill, as I found "winetricks quartz qcap qedit" to work just fine.

Wine complains if you don't install vcrun2008: Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC90.OpenMP"

On 64-bit, wine still complains after installing vcrun2008: Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC90.CRT". I tried installing Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable and DirectX 9 (requires wine-mono to install) from downloaded installers and overriding the DLLs. It silenced the warning, but didn't work to load MME (which crashes). Rather close, though!