Gmod's model guide : TDA Hatsune Miku

This guide was solely created to introduce anyone who have an interest to play around with TDA Hatsune Miku - mainly for ragdoll screenshot. The guide will tell you how to make a proper ragdoll into a proper pose for the virtual idol. If you are ready, please continue.

Introduction

Despite for any potential negative opinions - TDA Hatsune Miku model has a very fine and complex mechanism that one should not overlook, which is also a reason why this guide were made. For anyone who is looking for Gmod screenshooting, TDA Hatsune Miku model is a good start (beside TF2 models)

Addons Required

Main Addons	Link	Secondary Addons	Link	Helper Addons	Link
Miku model Ragdoll mover Extented properties Standing pose tool Collision resizer	http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=362803586 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104575630 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104607712 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104576786 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217376234	Advance camera Advance bone tool Advance light Easy bonemerge tool	http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=881605937 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279079869 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=493751477 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170917418	Easy bones editors Redo button	http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=310055166 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796294821

Prepare the Ragdoll

TDA Hatsune Miku model is a bit broken but she can be fixed. First of all, let us spawn the ragdoll of her, hold the menu key (C by default) and right click on the model - choose standing pose.



As you can see, her signature twintails is pointing upward and ungrabbable. You can not do anything unless her hair is fixed. So, please follow this steps.

1. Hold the menu key (C) and right click on the model - choose "Make animatable".
   
2. Miku twintails will be temporary fixed, but fly upward. Hold the menu key (C) and right click on the model again, but this time - choose "Edit Bones".
   
3. Do nothing to her bones. Hold the menu key (C) and right click on the model again - choose "Make Ragdoll". Then, choose "Stop Editing Bones".

Now, move the ragdoll with Ragdoll Mover a bit. With her hair fixed, your virtual idol - Miku - is now ready for some actions.



Note : do not forget to save the dupe of the ragdoll for later use.

Face Expressions

Default Miku face is kinda cute but she can be better. Face poser tool can make TDA Miku to "express" a lot of anime emotion with wide range of professional options available. Here is samples of them.

Mood	Description	Mood	Description	Mood	Description
1) Glad	Eye blink happy : 0.1 Brows arc up : 0.25 Mouth smile : 1	2) Happy	Brows arc up : 1 Mouth a : 1 Mouth smile : 1	3) Smile	Eye blink happy : 1 Brows arc up : 1 Mouth smile : 1 Mouth lip outer raiser : 0.6
7) Oh...	Eye surprise : 0.3 Eye shrink : 0.25 Brows arc up : 0.5 Mouth o : 1 Mouth lip outer lower : 1 Mouth lip stretcher : 0.5	8) Shock	Eye shrink : 0.65 Mouth e : 0.65 Mouth lip outer lower : 1	9) What!	Eye shrink : 0.65 Brows arc up : 1 Mouth n : 1 Mouth square : 1 Mouth lip stretcher : 0.65
13) Boo	Eye close left : 1 Eye glare : 0.4 Brows arc up : 1 Mouth smile : 1 Mouth tongue out : 1	14) Fear	Eye shrink : 0.25 Brows arc down : 1 Mouth i : 0.7 Mouth lip outer lower : 1.5* Eye look down : 0.1	15) Sad	Eye blink : 0.15 Eye shrink : 0.1 Brows arc down : 1 Brows lower : 0.25 Mouth a : 0.85 Mouth lip outer lower : 1 Misc tear : 1
19) Happy Tear	Eye blink : 0.1 Eye glare : -1* Brows arc down : 1 Mouth smile : 1 Misc tear : 1 Misc blush : 1	20) Pain	Eye blink happy : 1 Brows arc down : 1 Brows lower : 0.25 Mouth e : 1 Mouth ahh : 0.3 Misc tear : 1 Misc blush : 1	21) Endure	Eye wink left : 0.2 Eye wink right : 1 Brows arc down : 1 Brows lower : 0.25 Mouth i : 1 Mouth lip outer lower : 1.5* Misc tear : 1 Misc blush : 1
22) Want!	Eye sparkle : 1 Brows arc up : 0.45 Mouth o : 1 Mouth lip stretcher : 1	23) You...	Eye glint : 4* Mouth lip outer lower : 1	24) I see...	Eye blink : 0.2 Eye glare : 0.5 Eye stare : 0.2 Eye glint : -0.35* Eye vanish : 0.5 Brows arc up : 0.5 Mouth smirk : 0.6

* Note : Set by click on the number beside the scroll bar and type in a specific number.

Hand Poses

Default Miku hands is not better either. They need to be set by finger / hand poser tool in order to get a wanted screenshot. Here is samples of them.

Hammer

Point

Scissors

Paper

Bones

TDA Miku has addition bones aka. giggle bones. Due to difficulty, the most important bones are skirt and tie as they are prone to clipped - and sometime make you feel extremely awkward.

Miku's bones diagram

1) Front hair bones	2) Tie and twintail bones	3) Skirt bones	4) Body bones	5) Body bones
b = back	TIE = Tie TTL = Twin tail left TTR = Twin tail right	Back and Front SkirtBL = Skirt back left SkirtBR = Skirt back right SkirtExtension01 = Lower belt SkirtFL = Skirt front left SkirtFR = Skirt front right Left and Right SkirtL = Skirt left SkirtLB = Skirt left back SkirtLF = Skirt left front SkirtR = Skirt right SkirtRB = Skirt right back SkirtRF = Skirt right front	L = Left / R = Right Pectoral = Chests Trapezius = Top Back Ulna = Forearm bone Clavicle = Shoulder bone	Glute = Bottom

Sample of bone editing

Poses

Overall

In order to get a beautiful screenshot, you need to learn how to take a photographs first or at least has a sense to do so. You need to learn how to pose in real life or how to draw a human or else you might fail miserably. But do not worry, you can easily learn from trial and error with this model.

From now on, the guide will have no instruction to do something as it will be extremely complicated. However, the guide will provide you wth some tips and samples instead.

Note : Ragdoll mover can move an entire ragdoll by clicking on the pelvis and give it a direction or rotation of movement.

The pose : Be humanly

Hatsune Miku is based on a teen female human (duh). Her behavior and pose is also need to base on one - or at least - the best pose of one. You can find a picture of teenage girl or look at yourself in a big mirror and pose a "casual" standing in order to study how human anatomy works (assuming you are human nevertheless).

Most process need to be done by either using a ragdoll mover tool or physic gun or by a help of gravity and surrounding in some case. So, making a pose is time consuming in order to polish and finish, so be patience.

Tip : work on a different camera angle or look around the model to see if the pose is good enough.



The bet way to test your ragdoll skill is - trying to imitate the first image of Miku.[ec.crypton.co.jp] This is proven difficult as TDA model have no movable neck bone, so she might looks weird at some angles.

Bonemerging and Manual attaching

Easy Bonemerge Tool : a way to easily attach item to the model

All you need to do is,

1. Take the tool, right click at the model.
   
2. Point at a wanted item, right click again.
   
3. Done.

However, the easily it is, the risky it is. The item sometime can not attach to the model properly as TDA Miku is quite small or lack of some bones. So, manual attaching is recommending.

Manual attaching

With a combination of ragdoll mover to move the item and the model plus welding tool, you can make the model "hold" an item. Even though it is time consuming and prone to break but it is much more flexible than a bonemerge tool.



Use prop resizer (aka. collision resizer) tool to make the item small enough to be hold by Miku (she is fairly small). 0.75x should do just fine on an average items. Welding also must be done between the item and Miku hands directly.

Samples of intermediate screenshot

Tips

Eye vanish : a slide for auto tracking eyes

Eye vanish slide can be used to let TDA Miku keep tracking her eyes at the camera. The value must not be lesser than 0.15 and more than 0.55 (0.15 < x < 0.55) or the eyes will not work.

Have some fun with Miku!

TDA Hatsune Miku is a very good model to play around. Even it is a bit broken.

[idiot 3]

https://youtu.be/DdmNYNkcwKE

[Boaris]

Your welcome.

[Osvaldo]

Thanks a bunch, that method worked out perfectly. Also your collection was great, subscirbed to it immediately.

[Boaris]

If you choose the reference pose and the model is "shrinking", then all is lost. Manual posing is required then.

[Boaris]

Ungrabbable arms? Not gonna lie, it took me weeks to solve the problem, but here is how.

1 ) Stand pose the model
2 ) Right click and select "make animatable" on the model
3 ) Use Easy Animation Tool on the model.

The tool -> https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104604709

4 ) Find and select "Reference" animation or "T-pose" in the list.
5 ) Right click on the model and select "make Ragdoll"
6 ) Save dupe, done.

The reason why the arm is grabbable is its bones are malfuntion. Using animation tool can fix the problem. Anyway, I have fixed dupes of nearly every TDA vocaloid here if you are interesting.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1295992425

[Osvaldo]

Great guide, helped me a lot to fix the standing pose issue I had. Although I have a different issue with other TDA models, after using Stand Pose with them, their arms become ungrabbable. I tried using the same method with them but no luck. Do you have any advice on solving that issue?

[PoToo]

I know. TF2 is just dumb.

[Boaris]

TF2 or Team Fortress 2. Their characters are the most popular one here in Gmod. You can see it yourself in Gmod's artwork and screenshot - plenty of them.

[PoToo]

TF2? Well if that floats your boat...

[Boaris]

Well, I do not mind that. If you find my work to be cringy, you can leave. I do not force you to be here or admire the guide.

There are plenty of model to work here in Gmod. You can choose whatever you like and I am sure there are a guide for it. Maybe you should start with TF2 model as they are the most popular one.