[0:00] hello welcome and everyone this is
[0:01] sapphire and today we're going to be
[0:03] learning how to
[0:04] rig a 2d model in live 2d cubism this is
[0:07] going to be the first part of a
[0:08] long series of how to basically rig a
[0:10] half body from torso about the hip slash
[0:13] torso up for a 2d
[0:14] youtuber if you have not done the art
[0:16] for your vtuber yet or you're still
[0:18] trying to figure out how to organize the
[0:19] photoshop layer files go ahead and click
[0:21] this video i will leave down below
[0:22] on how to do that or you can click the
[0:24] card up above this first part is going
[0:26] to be how to set up your file in live 2d
[0:28] cubism so it's going to be all the
[0:29] basics and all the essentials that you
[0:31] will do
[0:31] before every single model that you start
[0:33] on live tv cubism so i would highly
[0:35] recommend if you don't have one already
[0:37] get a piece of paper and a pencil and
[0:38] write down these steps i'm going to have
[0:40] them up in the
[0:41] corner for you to see what step we're on
[0:42] and what we're doing and they'll also be
[0:44] marked in the chapters down below but
[0:45] these steps are essential every time
[0:47] before
[0:47] you start your model before you start
[0:49] rigging so that's what we're focusing on
[0:51] we will not do rigging quite yet in this
[0:53] section but we are going to set up our
[0:54] file and then the next video we will
[0:56] start working on
[0:57] rigging all right let's go you're gonna
[0:59] want to go to live 2d cubism i will drop
[1:02] this link down below this is the website
[1:03] and you want to download the trial
[1:05] version
[1:05] if you have not done this already you
[1:07] could also buy it
[1:08] i think i pay about 20 to 30 usd per
[1:12] month you can buy a full year license if
[1:14] you already went through your trial but
[1:15] you should have 42 days worth of trial
[1:17] if you don't
[1:17] so you will go ahead and download this
[1:19] in order to gain access to the downloads
[1:22] you're going to have to check this box
[1:23] here and then you can download if you
[1:24] have mac or windows or whatever
[1:26] you use so i'm just going to download
[1:27] windows and the exe should download and
[1:29] once that's good to go we'll click that
[1:31] so it will open up we're going to go
[1:33] next
[1:34] i agree and go ahead and download it
[1:36] where you want it to be
[1:37] you're going to click live 2d cubism
[1:39] editor and it should launch up
[1:40] awesome so we are going to talk about
[1:42] the essential parts
[1:44] to setting up a live 2d file again you
[1:46] want to do this before every single
[1:48] moddy model that you do or if you bring
[1:50] the file in new you'll have to do it as
[1:52] well again if you're using photoshop it
[1:53] should
[1:54] update if you drag your photoshop file
[1:56] and it should update all the layers and
[1:57] everything automatically and keep track
[1:59] of that as for other programs like
[2:01] fire alpaca or paint tool sci or
[2:04] krita i'm not sure if those actually
[2:06] work with live 2d i've talked to a few
[2:08] people already about it and as far as i
[2:10] know i'm not sure which our programs
[2:11] actually do work with live 2d but i do
[2:13] know that photoshop works so if you
[2:15] end up making a model in another program
[2:18] and
[2:18] you don't have photoshop see if you have
[2:19] a friend with photoshop and you can send
[2:21] them all your layers and have them
[2:22] organize it and then send you back the
[2:24] photoshop file to drag into live2d
[2:26] otherwise you can test to see if your
[2:27] art program file works i'm not sure and
[2:29] i will not be able to help you with that
[2:30] because i do not use those programs i
[2:32] will be doing this based off of
[2:33] photoshop so step number one is to
[2:35] create a file
[2:37] for the model so we're just gonna go
[2:38] over to file
[2:40] new so what i'm gonna do is i will go
[2:43] back so i can show you
[2:44] to my photoshop file here and for those
[2:46] who are wondering
[2:47] what size to make your photoshop file i
[2:49] did 3000 pixels by 3065 pixels so i'm
[2:53] just going to write that out here so you
[2:54] can see it
[2:55] be sure that it's pixels so mine's about
[2:57] this again
[2:58] it doesn't matter too much but i found
[3:00] this to be a good size for me
[3:01] works well and if you want to make a
[3:03] bigger full body model you could
[3:04] probably just
[3:05] start with that and then expand the
[3:06] canvas down here with your crop tool you
[3:08] could sort of open that
[3:09] down and work on the other ends but
[3:11] that's what i got for this so we're
[3:12] going to go to file
[3:13] export or not export sorry save as save
[3:15] to my computer
[3:16] and i'm just going to save it as my
[3:18] photoshop file on my desktop i'm going
[3:20] to click save
[3:20] okay so as i was saying earlier you go
[3:22] to file new model
[3:24] then you can go down to canvas settings
[3:26] change this to
[3:27] 3 000 by 3065
[3:32] i'm going to zoom out here with my
[3:33] scroll wheel and now we got all of our
[3:34] folders here
[3:35] and what i want to do is go to wherever
[3:37] i saved that
[3:38] photoshop file and i'm going to click
[3:40] and drag and not create a new model but
[3:42] you do untitled model and at all layers
[3:45] as a new art mesh okay
[3:47] next i am going to this is it's going to
[3:50] show
[3:50] a large folder with everything in your
[3:52] photoshop file here mine is 2d size
[3:54] stargating i'm going to drop this down
[3:56] and i'm going to go ahead and turn off
[3:58] this background layer
[4:00] you can use eyeballs over here to turn
[4:02] on and off layers
[4:03] and what i'm going to also do is hold
[4:05] ctrl a to select every single thing so i
[4:07] can move it together and just move that
[4:09] down
[4:09] to the bottom and if you wanted to make
[4:11] it bigger you can also hold shift to
[4:12] keep it all the same size while dragging
[4:14] at the corner so i'm just going to
[4:15] make it as big as i think i want it all
[4:18] right and now i'm going to click ctrl
[4:19] s to save and i'm going to go on my
[4:21] desktop and actually i'll show you can
[4:23] also go here save as
[4:24] desktop and i'm going to do new folder
[4:27] saya
[4:28] star guardian 3.0 and i'm going to name
[4:31] this
[4:32] the same thing saya star guardian 3.0
[4:35] okay save
[4:36] awesome now it should be in there on my
[4:37] desktop okay so the most
[4:39] important part that we're going to be
[4:40] doing next is you're going to be
[4:41] assigning parts to
[4:43] everything on your layers on the left
[4:44] side here so we're going to want to go
[4:46] through everything from top to bottom
[4:47] you do this with every single model that
[4:49] you load into live 2d after you make the
[4:51] new model like the steps i showed you
[4:53] earlier
[4:53] and what we're going to do is go through
[4:54] everything and give them parts and i'll
[4:56] show you what that means here
[4:57] so first we're going to go to our brow
[4:59] section so i'm going to go to eyebrow
[5:00] left
[5:01] and now you want to go to part and see
[5:03] where it says part
[5:04] brow we want to this is everything
[5:06] that's within
[5:07] my folder you want to make sure you're
[5:09] assigning it to the folders that are in
[5:10] live 2d so you're going to want to
[5:11] scroll probably all the way close to the
[5:12] bottom for browsing here and i'm going
[5:13] to select browse to part so now you see
[5:16] this is in the solo folder over here
[5:17] eyebrows l so we're going to go through
[5:18] everything and assign it parts
[5:20] so same thing for eyebrow r brow i'm
[5:22] going to scroll down and put it to the
[5:24] brow folder
[5:25] in here and you can double check these
[5:26] by highlighting over them and just
[5:27] checking to make sure the part is
[5:29] correct and i'm going to do that with
[5:30] the rest of everything i'm going to
[5:32] speed up this section of the video but
[5:33] if you would like to
[5:35] see how i'm placing everything you could
[5:36] go to the bottom of this youtube video
[5:37] and slow down the playback so you can
[5:39] see what i'm doing and we will talk
[5:40] about how to make sure all your layers
[5:41] are correct after we assign parts so
[5:43] just focus on
[5:44] assigning parts to every single layer
[5:45] first all right let's go
[5:50] for the loops here i'm going to assign
[5:52] it to the bangs
[6:18] you can do full hair sides at once
[6:21] you can do the whole folder so i'm just
[6:23] going to select on the folder here
[6:24] and i am going to go down to hairside
[6:28] so i don't want anything to mess up so
[6:29] i'm just going to pull all this
[6:31] out into the main folder here and make
[6:33] sure it's all assigned to her side and
[6:35] then i'm going to delete that by
[6:36] clicking the delete key on my keyboard
[6:38] and getting rid of that folder
[6:40] for ears you're going to bring that into
[6:42] the ear section whether they're wolf
[6:43] ears if they're wolfie or semen ears if
[6:45] you have both you can put all those into
[6:46] the ear
[6:47] part another great thing that you can do
[6:49] to
[6:50] help yourself figure things out if i'm
[6:52] not explaining things clear enough to
[6:53] you is if you go to the live 2d website
[6:55] you can go to
[6:56] the download section and go to sample
[6:59] data and once you get the sample data
[7:00] you can scroll down and you can download
[7:02] one of the models they have used
[7:04] most of them are not english however
[7:06] there isn't one english version hitori
[7:08] or hiyori chan you can download
[7:10] the pro version this should say
[7:12] underscore en for english
[7:13] you can show in folder you can right
[7:15] click you can extract to hattori
[7:17] and you can open that folder and then
[7:19] you should be able to go in and click on
[7:20] that orange file and you can have it
[7:22] open up in
[7:23] your live 2d cubism if you want to open
[7:25] it directly next to it so you have two
[7:27] tabs to flip back and forth
[7:28] just open it through directly through
[7:30] live 2d so as you can see i have hattori
[7:32] pro and then i opened it here
[7:33] and now i have two tabs i can flip back
[7:35] and forth between so if you get confused
[7:37] on anything for example
[7:38] there's something that was confusing to
[7:39] me was i don't understand the eye parts
[7:41] there is an eye part
[7:43] there is eyeball and there's a regular
[7:44] eye so all the stuff should go in the
[7:46] eyeball
[7:47] root section it looks like when i'm
[7:48] looking at the sample model so when we
[7:50] go back
[7:51] we know for our eye section that we want
[7:52] to put all the stuff into the eyeball
[7:54] part of the folder so i'm going to right
[7:56] click all those and scroll down and go
[7:57] to
[7:58] eyeball
[8:03] i'm going to go back up to this
[8:07] head eyes
[8:10] and grab all my left eyes as well and
[8:12] bring those into the eyeball as well
[8:43] here we go again now we're at the chest
[8:45] i'm not exactly sure to put the chest so
[8:47] i'm gonna look in here and see
[8:48] where they put the chest in the sample
[8:50] one so it looks like the neck is with
[8:51] the neck
[8:52] i'm gonna go through here body it looks
[8:54] like collarbone anything with the chest
[8:56] is gonna go in the body section as well
[8:58] so i'm just gonna go back here and i'm
[8:59] gonna go ahead and move that to
[9:01] the body
[9:11] and lastly i'm going to move the hair
[9:12] back to the
[9:14] hair back now i'm just going to double
[9:16] check all my folders up here to make
[9:18] sure
[9:19] they're empty it looks like wolf ears
[9:20] are still in wolf ears so i'm gonna have
[9:22] to move those down
[9:23] to ears again i'm just double checking
[9:26] everything
[9:27] it looks like all this stuff is good so
[9:29] what i'm gonna do is go ahead and
[9:30] collapse that folder and we should be
[9:31] done with our psd file now as you can
[9:33] see all of our layers are really messed
[9:35] up over here we want to get everything
[9:36] back on the same order and the way we're
[9:38] going to do that is we're just going to
[9:39] start going through and moving stuff to
[9:41] different draw orders so draw order is
[9:43] like layers in photoshop
[9:45] the higher the draw order then it will
[9:46] be more on top and the lower it will be
[9:48] more below or underneath
[9:50] so i'm going to go through and i'm just
[9:51] going to order stuff accordingly the
[9:52] face on the nose
[9:53] everything for that looks good i'm going
[9:55] to move forward for the eyes
[9:58] i'm going to go ahead and select all
[9:59] these and i'm going to turn
[10:01] it up to 5.8 is fine and put it on top
[10:04] for those who are wondering how i'm
[10:04] selecting all i just click one and i
[10:06] hold down shift and i click down
[10:07] to select more than one now i'm going to
[10:09] go to my eyebrows i'm going to select
[10:10] both of those
[10:11] and i'm just going to pull the draw
[10:12] order up as well and i'm probably going
[10:14] to want that a little bit up more
[10:15] just it doesn't really specifically
[10:17] matter which draw order as long as it's
[10:18] in the correct layer that you want for
[10:20] mouse we're going to select all those as
[10:21] well we're going to move the draw order
[10:23] up we might need to go back and adjust
[10:24] some of those when we're working on
[10:25] stuff later but we have
[10:26] the main section good to go i'm going to
[10:29] go ahead and move this nose
[10:30] to the nose section as well i forgot to
[10:34] do that or mess that up earlier which
[10:36] means i'm also going to want to move the
[10:37] draw order and the nose up as well
[10:39] next i'm going to go to the ears i'm
[10:40] going to select both of those those
[10:41] going to be
[10:42] we're going to keep them behind so i'll
[10:44] just pull that back a little bit
[10:45] and next we're going to go to our bangs
[10:46] so we want all of our bangs pretty far
[10:48] forward so i'm going to select all those
[10:49] move them up
[10:50] to about there i want the eyebrows to
[10:52] stay on top of the bangs her hair side
[10:54] i'm also going to select all these and
[10:55] move them up
[10:56] and for hair back i want that to go
[10:58] behind so everything
[11:00] else looks like it's pretty good i think
[11:01] i just need to grab my golden choker
[11:03] and move that on top and now we have
[11:05] everything in the correct drawing order
[11:08] again we can move stuff over if we need
[11:10] to if something's not overlapping
[11:11] correctly remember you can always go
[11:12] back and change this jaw order at any
[11:14] time
[11:14] okay so we finished organizing and
[11:16] assigning our parts if something's not
[11:17] working you can go back through and
[11:19] check and make sure that the part is
[11:20] assigned to the correct section
[11:21] and again you can use this extra file
[11:23] over here of hiyori and look at how
[11:25] things are organized if something seems
[11:27] like it's not working
[11:28] next what we want to do is create meshes
[11:30] for every single part now there are two
[11:31] different ways you can do this you can
[11:33] either do it by hand or you can just
[11:34] auto mesh everything it depends on your
[11:36] goals are you in a hurry do you want to
[11:37] get this done fast and get a quick
[11:39] version out pronto
[11:40] or do you want to take your time and
[11:43] really get everything right the first
[11:44] time around so there's two options we
[11:46] have here you can either select one
[11:47] thing at a time
[11:48] and like i selected the eyebrow and i
[11:50] can go auto this is going to create a
[11:51] mesh
[11:52] so we want to create a mesh on top of
[11:54] every single object preset i'm just
[11:55] going to do standard
[11:56] and okay there we go so this looks
[11:58] decent there's some fixes i can make
[12:00] if you want to edit things individually
[12:02] there is different guides on how you can
[12:05] set these
[12:05] up on the live 2d website you can also
[12:08] once again
[12:08] come in here and look at how how hey
[12:11] yuri is set up so i'm just going to look
[12:12] at this and
[12:13] you want to the goal here when you're
[12:15] assigning meshes
[12:16] to every single piece of your character
[12:18] is you want to make sure these triangles
[12:20] are as even as possible so there are a
[12:21] few different ways you can do this
[12:22] so you can auto mesh like i said or you
[12:24] can do a customized mesh
[12:26] i would start with an auto so you have a
[12:27] little bit of a base you can use this
[12:29] minus pen tool right here to get rid of
[12:31] things
[12:31] so i'm just going to get rid of all the
[12:33] center ones right now
[12:34] actually i'm going to get rid of all of
[12:36] it and plus what you want to do is you
[12:38] just want to sort of surround it as best
[12:39] you can
[12:40] i don't know if there's a specifically
[12:41] right or wrong way to do this but just
[12:43] do what feels right click around it
[12:45] experiment again you want to make the
[12:46] triangles as even as possible so i'm
[12:48] just guessing right now
[12:49] so i connected my main sections on the
[12:52] outside there and then you can go in
[12:53] with this brush tool
[12:54] and draw through
[12:58] so you can do something like that or you
[13:00] can again have more control over by
[13:02] using your plus
[13:03] or minus i have not used the lasso or
[13:05] the selection tool specifically but that
[13:06] could be your mesh right there if you
[13:08] want to make custom ones to really even
[13:09] out your triangles if you notice the
[13:11] auto mesh looks a little funky or a
[13:12] little messy for this one
[13:14] but again i'm just going to auto mesh
[13:15] everything for this so again remember
[13:17] you can go in and do everything
[13:18] specifically to make it as even as
[13:20] possible or you can auto mesh everything
[13:22] i'm going to auto match everything i'm
[13:23] going to hold ctrl a it's going to
[13:24] select everything or you can just select
[13:26] everything like this but control a is
[13:28] what i'm clicking and then you can go
[13:29] ahead and click auto for everything and
[13:31] go to standard
[13:32] so it'll give everything an auto mesh
[13:34] again you can see there's a lot of messy
[13:35] stuff in here you could auto mesh
[13:36] everything and then go in and fix it too
[13:38] but make sure you assign meshes this is
[13:40] what's going to allow
[13:40] your mesh to be able to move it's sort
[13:42] of like adding bones if you have ever
[13:44] done 3d modeling this is 2d's way of
[13:46] adding bones to your model
[13:48] so far we have created a model file we
[13:50] have organized and assigned our parts
[13:51] over here
[13:52] we have checked and set up our draw
[13:54] order to make sure everything is on the
[13:55] correct layer we have created a mesh now
[13:57] for every single piece here so that we
[13:59] can
[13:59] maneuver and move our pieces for when we
[14:01] start rigging lastly we're going to
[14:03] generate a texture
[14:04] and you can do this by click ctrl a to
[14:06] select everything again
[14:07] you can edit texture atlas right here or
[14:09] you can hit ctrl t
[14:10] you can do either or i'm going to hit
[14:12] ctrl t edit texture atlas i'm going to
[14:14] do
[14:14] 248 by 2048 again this is not a super
[14:17] important thing and do what's going to
[14:18] work and you'll see what i mean once we
[14:20] get in there so i'm going to click ok
[14:21] and it's going to automatically lay out
[14:22] everything you want to select everything
[14:24] and make sure it's at 100 scale here so
[14:26] it looks like this says it's at 45 scale
[14:28] i want this at a hundred percent if i do
[14:30] 100
[14:30] things are not going to fit on there so
[14:31] i'm going to exit out of this and click
[14:33] yes i'm going to go back
[14:34] and regenerate my texture atlas and i'm
[14:37] going to do something higher i'm going
[14:38] to go with 8 192. this could
[14:40] cause maybe possibly more lag or
[14:42] something so this is when you'd want to
[14:43] pay attention your resolution
[14:44] for me specifically i have a pretty good
[14:46] computer so i don't have to worry about
[14:48] that so you also want this to be taking
[14:50] up as much space as you want so i hold
[14:51] shift so nothing warps and make it
[14:53] bigger but this as you can see now is at
[14:55] scale 204 we don't want that so i'm not
[14:57] going to want to do
[14:58] the 8 000 either i'm going to go ahead
[15:00] and click this again and we're going to
[15:01] try
[15:02] a 40 96 by 4096 and see what that looks
[15:05] like so i'm going to highlight
[15:06] everything let's see what it's at we got
[15:07] it 95 scale 95 is pretty good i'm not
[15:09] going to mess with it i could bring it
[15:11] up to 100 but this is good enough for me
[15:13] now what you're doing here is you want
[15:14] to make sure that nothing is overlapping
[15:16] that's all you're going to do once you
[15:17] have the automated
[15:18] set up so go ahead and move stuff around
[15:20] you're just going to select it and move
[15:22] it you want to make sure things are not
[15:23] overlapping so just go ahead and zoom in
[15:25] look around i'm gonna hold down my
[15:28] middle mouse to move this around and
[15:29] maneuver a bit so i'm gonna move these
[15:31] pieces over a bit
[15:32] and i'm gonna speed through this again
[15:34] you just all you're doing here is making
[15:36] sure
[15:36] things are not overlapping with each
[15:37] other so make sure you pay very close
[15:39] attention to that
[15:40] and just move things accordingly if you
[15:41] want you can also scale things a little
[15:43] bit larger to take up as
[15:44] much space as possible but if you're new
[15:46] to this i would just focus on separating
[15:48] things
[15:48] so that they are not overlapping
[15:56] [Music]
[16:02] [Music]
[16:16] it looks like everything is good to go
[16:18] i'm going to then click ok
[16:20] and just let it do its thing awesome and
[16:22] now it should all
[16:23] be ready to start breaking so in the
[16:25] next video we will
[16:26] focus on bringing we're probably going
[16:28] to get the face and the eyes the nose
[16:30] and the mouth
[16:31] done for rotating and moving around and
[16:33] we'll see how far that goes and then we
[16:35] can take it to the next point after that
[16:37] awesome so we got a lot of that done
[16:39] just to go over the essentials and the
[16:40] setup one more time
[16:42] make sure your photoshop file is
[16:44] somewhere around if you're doing half
[16:45] body 3000 pixels by 3065
[16:48] one we created a file in model during
[16:51] this video
[16:51] two we organized and assigned our parts
[16:54] three
[16:54] we checked and set up the draw order to
[16:56] make sure the layers were
[16:57] going in the right direction we created
[16:59] a mesh custom or auto so you can do
[17:01] custom per
[17:02] every single piece or you can automate
[17:05] every single
[17:05] mesh and five we generated a texture
[17:08] atlas
[17:09] with ctrl t and for any extra important
[17:11] things we made sure cubism was at
[17:13] version 3.0 in the upper
[17:14] left hand corner which i actually did
[17:16] not fix this version because i had been
[17:18] doing a few different things but make
[17:19] sure your sdk is at 3.0 you can change
[17:21] it later it's fine
[17:22] that should help set up your file to get
[17:24] ready for rigging we will work on some
[17:26] rigging in the next tutorials if there's
[17:27] anything specifically you want to learn
[17:29] how to rig to feel free to leave a
[17:30] comment down below letting me know what
[17:32] you want to see read i hope this video
[17:33] is helpful
[17:34] and if you need any one-on-one time you
[17:36] can set up a appointment with me i
[17:38] charge 30
[17:39] usd per half hour for working on a
[17:41] project together i'll leave that
[17:42] calendly link down below also if you're
[17:44] not already on my emailing list
[17:45] definitely check that out as well i'll
[17:47] leave that down below for free resources
[17:49] on how to become a better youtuber
[17:50] alright i will see you in the next one
[17:52] thank you so much bye