Live2D Full Guide and Tutorial [ Part 1/8 - Setting Up The Essentials ] 【VTuber/Artist】

[00:00] hello welcome and everyone this is

[00:01] sapphire and today we're going to be

[00:03] learning how to

[00:04] rig a 2d model in live 2d cubism this is

[00:07] going to be the first part of a

[00:08] long series of how to basically rig a

[00:10] half body from torso about the hip slash

[00:13] torso up for a 2d

[00:14] youtuber if you have not done the art

[00:16] for your vtuber yet or you're still

[00:18] trying to figure out how to organize the

[00:19] photoshop layer files go ahead and click

[00:21] this video i will leave down below

[00:22] on how to do that or you can click the

[00:24] card up above this first part is going

[00:26] to be how to set up your file in live 2d

[00:28] cubism so it's going to be all the

[00:29] basics and all the essentials that you

[00:31] will do

[00:31] before every single model that you start

[00:33] on live tv cubism so i would highly

[00:35] recommend if you don't have one already

[00:37] get a piece of paper and a pencil and

[00:38] write down these steps i'm going to have

[00:40] them up in the

[00:41] corner for you to see what step we're on

[00:42] and what we're doing and they'll also be

[00:44] marked in the chapters down below but

[00:45] these steps are essential every time

[00:47] before

[00:47] you start your model before you start

[00:49] rigging so that's what we're focusing on

[00:51] we will not do rigging quite yet in this

[00:53] section but we are going to set up our

[00:54] file and then the next video we will

[00:56] start working on

[00:57] rigging all right let's go you're gonna

[00:59] want to go to live 2d cubism i will drop

[01:02] this link down below this is the website

[01:03] and you want to download the trial

[01:05] version

[01:05] if you have not done this already you

[01:07] could also buy it

[01:08] i think i pay about 20 to 30 usd per

[01:12] month you can buy a full year license if

[01:14] you already went through your trial but

[01:15] you should have 42 days worth of trial

[01:17] if you don't

[01:17] so you will go ahead and download this

[01:19] in order to gain access to the downloads

[01:22] you're going to have to check this box

[01:23] here and then you can download if you

[01:24] have mac or windows or whatever

[01:26] you use so i'm just going to download

[01:27] windows and the exe should download and

[01:29] once that's good to go we'll click that

[01:31] so it will open up we're going to go

[01:33] next

[01:34] i agree and go ahead and download it

[01:36] where you want it to be

[01:37] you're going to click live 2d cubism

[01:39] editor and it should launch up

[01:40] awesome so we are going to talk about

[01:42] the essential parts

[01:44] to setting up a live 2d file again you

[01:46] want to do this before every single

[01:48] moddy model that you do or if you bring

[01:50] the file in new you'll have to do it as

[01:52] well again if you're using photoshop it

[01:53] should

[01:54] update if you drag your photoshop file

[01:56] and it should update all the layers and

[01:57] everything automatically and keep track

[01:59] of that as for other programs like

[02:01] fire alpaca or paint tool sci or

[02:04] krita i'm not sure if those actually

[02:06] work with live 2d i've talked to a few

[02:08] people already about it and as far as i

[02:10] know i'm not sure which our programs

[02:11] actually do work with live 2d but i do

[02:13] know that photoshop works so if you

[02:15] end up making a model in another program

[02:18] and

[02:18] you don't have photoshop see if you have

[02:19] a friend with photoshop and you can send

[02:21] them all your layers and have them

[02:22] organize it and then send you back the

[02:24] photoshop file to drag into live2d

[02:26] otherwise you can test to see if your

[02:27] art program file works i'm not sure and

[02:29] i will not be able to help you with that

[02:30] because i do not use those programs i

[02:32] will be doing this based off of

[02:33] photoshop so step number one is to

[02:35] create a file

[02:37] for the model so we're just gonna go

[02:38] over to file

[02:40] new so what i'm gonna do is i will go

[02:43] back so i can show you

[02:44] to my photoshop file here and for those

[02:46] who are wondering

[02:47] what size to make your photoshop file i

[02:49] did 3000 pixels by 3065 pixels so i'm

[02:53] just going to write that out here so you

[02:54] can see it

[02:55] be sure that it's pixels so mine's about

[02:57] this again

[02:58] it doesn't matter too much but i found

[03:00] this to be a good size for me

[03:01] works well and if you want to make a

[03:03] bigger full body model you could

[03:04] probably just

[03:05] start with that and then expand the

[03:06] canvas down here with your crop tool you

[03:08] could sort of open that

[03:09] down and work on the other ends but

[03:11] that's what i got for this so we're

[03:12] going to go to file

[03:13] export or not export sorry save as save

[03:15] to my computer

[03:16] and i'm just going to save it as my

[03:18] photoshop file on my desktop i'm going

[03:20] to click save

[03:20] okay so as i was saying earlier you go

[03:22] to file new model

[03:24] then you can go down to canvas settings

[03:26] change this to

[03:27] 3 000 by 3065

[03:32] i'm going to zoom out here with my

[03:33] scroll wheel and now we got all of our

[03:34] folders here

[03:35] and what i want to do is go to wherever

[03:37] i saved that

[03:38] photoshop file and i'm going to click

[03:40] and drag and not create a new model but

[03:42] you do untitled model and at all layers

[03:45] as a new art mesh okay

[03:47] next i am going to this is it's going to

[03:50] show

[03:50] a large folder with everything in your

[03:52] photoshop file here mine is 2d size

[03:54] stargating i'm going to drop this down

[03:56] and i'm going to go ahead and turn off

[03:58] this background layer

[04:00] you can use eyeballs over here to turn

[04:02] on and off layers

[04:03] and what i'm going to also do is hold

[04:05] ctrl a to select every single thing so i

[04:07] can move it together and just move that

[04:09] down

[04:09] to the bottom and if you wanted to make

[04:11] it bigger you can also hold shift to

[04:12] keep it all the same size while dragging

[04:14] at the corner so i'm just going to

[04:15] make it as big as i think i want it all

[04:18] right and now i'm going to click ctrl

[04:19] s to save and i'm going to go on my

[04:21] desktop and actually i'll show you can

[04:23] also go here save as

[04:24] desktop and i'm going to do new folder

[04:27] saya

[04:28] star guardian 3.0 and i'm going to name

[04:31] this

[04:32] the same thing saya star guardian 3.0

[04:35] okay save

[04:36] awesome now it should be in there on my

[04:37] desktop okay so the most

[04:39] important part that we're going to be

[04:40] doing next is you're going to be

[04:41] assigning parts to

[04:43] everything on your layers on the left

[04:44] side here so we're going to want to go

[04:46] through everything from top to bottom

[04:47] you do this with every single model that

[04:49] you load into live 2d after you make the

[04:51] new model like the steps i showed you

[04:53] earlier

[04:53] and what we're going to do is go through

[04:54] everything and give them parts and i'll

[04:56] show you what that means here

[04:57] so first we're going to go to our brow

[04:59] section so i'm going to go to eyebrow

[05:00] left

[05:01] and now you want to go to part and see

[05:03] where it says part

[05:04] brow we want to this is everything

[05:06] that's within

[05:07] my folder you want to make sure you're

[05:09] assigning it to the folders that are in

[05:10] live 2d so you're going to want to

[05:11] scroll probably all the way close to the

[05:12] bottom for browsing here and i'm going

[05:13] to select browse to part so now you see

[05:16] this is in the solo folder over here

[05:17] eyebrows l so we're going to go through

[05:18] everything and assign it parts

[05:20] so same thing for eyebrow r brow i'm

[05:22] going to scroll down and put it to the

[05:24] brow folder

[05:25] in here and you can double check these

[05:26] by highlighting over them and just

[05:27] checking to make sure the part is

[05:29] correct and i'm going to do that with

[05:30] the rest of everything i'm going to

[05:32] speed up this section of the video but

[05:33] if you would like to

[05:35] see how i'm placing everything you could

[05:36] go to the bottom of this youtube video

[05:37] and slow down the playback so you can

[05:39] see what i'm doing and we will talk

[05:40] about how to make sure all your layers

[05:41] are correct after we assign parts so

[05:43] just focus on

[05:44] assigning parts to every single layer

[05:45] first all right let's go

[05:50] for the loops here i'm going to assign

[05:52] it to the bangs

[06:18] you can do full hair sides at once

[06:21] you can do the whole folder so i'm just

[06:23] going to select on the folder here

[06:24] and i am going to go down to hairside

[06:28] so i don't want anything to mess up so

[06:29] i'm just going to pull all this

[06:31] out into the main folder here and make

[06:33] sure it's all assigned to her side and

[06:35] then i'm going to delete that by

[06:36] clicking the delete key on my keyboard

[06:38] and getting rid of that folder

[06:40] for ears you're going to bring that into

[06:42] the ear section whether they're wolf

[06:43] ears if they're wolfie or semen ears if

[06:45] you have both you can put all those into

[06:46] the ear

[06:47] part another great thing that you can do

[06:49] to

[06:50] help yourself figure things out if i'm

[06:52] not explaining things clear enough to

[06:53] you is if you go to the live 2d website

[06:55] you can go to

[06:56] the download section and go to sample

[06:59] data and once you get the sample data

[07:00] you can scroll down and you can download

[07:02] one of the models they have used

[07:04] most of them are not english however

[07:06] there isn't one english version hitori

[07:08] or hiyori chan you can download

[07:10] the pro version this should say

[07:12] underscore en for english

[07:13] you can show in folder you can right

[07:15] click you can extract to hattori

[07:17] and you can open that folder and then

[07:19] you should be able to go in and click on

[07:20] that orange file and you can have it

[07:22] open up in

[07:23] your live 2d cubism if you want to open

[07:25] it directly next to it so you have two

[07:27] tabs to flip back and forth

[07:28] just open it through directly through

[07:30] live 2d so as you can see i have hattori

[07:32] pro and then i opened it here

[07:33] and now i have two tabs i can flip back

[07:35] and forth between so if you get confused

[07:37] on anything for example

[07:38] there's something that was confusing to

[07:39] me was i don't understand the eye parts

[07:41] there is an eye part

[07:43] there is eyeball and there's a regular

[07:44] eye so all the stuff should go in the

[07:46] eyeball

[07:47] root section it looks like when i'm

[07:48] looking at the sample model so when we

[07:50] go back

[07:51] we know for our eye section that we want

[07:52] to put all the stuff into the eyeball

[07:54] part of the folder so i'm going to right

[07:56] click all those and scroll down and go

[07:57] to

[07:58] eyeball

[08:03] i'm going to go back up to this

[08:07] head eyes

[08:10] and grab all my left eyes as well and

[08:12] bring those into the eyeball as well

[08:43] here we go again now we're at the chest

[08:45] i'm not exactly sure to put the chest so

[08:47] i'm gonna look in here and see

[08:48] where they put the chest in the sample

[08:50] one so it looks like the neck is with

[08:51] the neck

[08:52] i'm gonna go through here body it looks

[08:54] like collarbone anything with the chest

[08:56] is gonna go in the body section as well

[08:58] so i'm just gonna go back here and i'm

[08:59] gonna go ahead and move that to

[09:01] the body

[09:11] and lastly i'm going to move the hair

[09:12] back to the

[09:14] hair back now i'm just going to double

[09:16] check all my folders up here to make

[09:18] sure

[09:19] they're empty it looks like wolf ears

[09:20] are still in wolf ears so i'm gonna have

[09:22] to move those down

[09:23] to ears again i'm just double checking

[09:26] everything

[09:27] it looks like all this stuff is good so

[09:29] what i'm gonna do is go ahead and

[09:30] collapse that folder and we should be

[09:31] done with our psd file now as you can

[09:33] see all of our layers are really messed

[09:35] up over here we want to get everything

[09:36] back on the same order and the way we're

[09:38] going to do that is we're just going to

[09:39] start going through and moving stuff to

[09:41] different draw orders so draw order is

[09:43] like layers in photoshop

[09:45] the higher the draw order then it will

[09:46] be more on top and the lower it will be

[09:48] more below or underneath

[09:50] so i'm going to go through and i'm just

[09:51] going to order stuff accordingly the

[09:52] face on the nose

[09:53] everything for that looks good i'm going

[09:55] to move forward for the eyes

[09:58] i'm going to go ahead and select all

[09:59] 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