PMX / VMD
Working
Model loading, animation playback, texture and material analysisMMD engine · Rust and wgpu
WMMD
A hostable MMD runtime and rendering backend in Rust — designed to be embedded in editors, AR and VR hosts, VJ tools, and offline renderers.
WMMD / CAPABILITY BOARDRESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Physics
Working
Spring bones, rigid bodies, joints — Bullet by default, three alternate backendsRendering
Working
Toon forward pass, WBOIT, SSAO, IBL, ESM shadows, bloomAnimation / IK
Working
IK solver with VMD IK on/off tracks, morph pipelineClock and audio
In active development
Master clock and timecode lock working; audio-as-clock outstandingCinematic post
Experimental
Depth of field with autofocus and tile-based motion blur in the EEVEE-like backendXR and stereo
Planned
Multi-view camera contract for VR and AR hostsExternal control
Planned
OSC to command bridge, video output, and mocap input for live performanceThe same codebase drives a desktop editor and is designed to be hosted elsewhere. That constraint shapes everything: no layer assumes it owns the window, the GPU, or the clock. It is research in progress, not a claimed public release.
The workspace is layered so dependencies point one way, and the boundaries are written down as invariants rather than conventions. Breaking one is treated as a bug.
- wmmd-render · backend-agnostic interface, no GPU dependency
- wmmd-render-wgpu · every GPU pass, never owns the swapchain
- wmmd-runtime · CPU simulation, never loads files
- wmmd-asset · PMX/PMD, VMD, texture and material analysis
- wmmd-clock and wmmd-audio · standalone, zero cross-crate deps
Rendering is checked headlessly against approved reference frames, physics has its own verifier, and a fix reproduced with one model must be expressed generally — no per-model special cases in shipped code.
Development reports
Evidence instead of release claims.
WMMD architecture: a hostable MMD runtime
The engine is split into layered Rust crates with hard dependency rules, so the same code can drive an editor, an AR host, or an offline renderer.
↗WMMD rendering: a toon pipeline verified by golden images
Forward toon shading with WBOIT transparency, ESM shadows, SSAO and RT AO, IBL and bloom - plus the headless snapshot setup that keeps it honest.
↗WMMD physics: three backends behind one interface
Bullet as the MMD-faithful reference, a pure-Rust fallback, a clean-room PGS solver, and an XPBD cloth engine - swappable at compile time.
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