Keef's
Skin Testers
This
is a tool I came up with to help skinners more easily test their
skins. Discussion
Thread
These products
are hidden so they won't able to be bought or resold as they
are merely a tool so you will not see them listed in my catalog.
Just use these links or thier PIDs to get them into the Previewer.
Male PID 2306871
Female PID 1901211
How it
Works!
The Previewer
will load a default avatar and two dummy avatars on either
side of it.
The Avatar in
the middle is in standard clothes, you can change what she
is wearing via the usual methods. On either side of that
is a dummy avatar. I tried to pose them so you can see all
the seams more easily.
-Dummy on the
Left is sporting the neck that is on the body texture. (between
legs)
-Dummy on the Right is sporting the neck on head texture.
S/he also has her eyes closed so you can see your eye makeup
in the closed position.
NOTE: It is important
that you make your skin so BOTH neck areas look correct
as these necks are interchangeable depending on the outfit
the avatar is wearing.
Aside the head
of the dummy on the right there are exposed mouthparts for
seeing those areas normally impossible to see to make it
easy to preview dental work, tongue piercing, etc.
Once you get
your skin textures ready to test load the Skin Tester then
just swap out the head and body textures as you normally
would. Hit 'Apply Changes' and all 3 models will change
letting you proof your work.
You can also
swap the eye texture and remove the brows by adding an all
black opacity there if needed.
When happy with
the skin edits you will use the normal IMVU inc skin product
to derive from to submit with.
Happy
Skinning!!!
What
products to derive from
Here are some quick
links to the IMVU base products to use to derive from.
NOTE on
Skins vs Avatars: When making a new skin look you
should use a skin product NOT an avatar. New avatars should
ONLY be used if what you are making needs a different animations
than that of the default avie not for just cosmetic texture
changes. Developer made avatars are incompatible with many
room products as their PIDs are incompatible with custom seats.
NOTE on
Eyes and Brows: While for compatability resons you
must submit a different product for male and female avatar's
skins, eyes, and brows, the textures you make for your eyes
and brows can be used on both gender's products as they share
the same templates. The skin templates are simmilar but not
close enough to be interchangeable so they will require separate
textures.
Male Skin PID 263
Female Skin PID 252
Male Eye PID 609
Female Eye PID 148
Male Brow PID 135
Female Brow PID 131
UPDATE!
The ablity to derive off Brows is currenty broken.
IMVU's
Templates
Here are the basic
wireframe templats for making Skins, Brows, and Eyes.
Male
Head
Male Body
Female
Head
Female
Body
Brow:
Unisex
Keef
made Content Creator Maps
Eye:
Unisex
This one IMVU has not provided so I pulled the map from 3D
Max. Discussion
Thread
This is a large working file, your final texture should be
resized to 128x128 or 64x64
Female
Head NEW!!!
Guess
what, IMVUs default head and its map's lips are mapped totally
different than all the other head's lips! gaaaaaaa!!!
So here is a UV
map I made up that shows how all the other heads besides the
default head are mapped. Basically IMVU's default head uses
more area for the lips than all the other heads. (Default
lips area shown in dark green)
Female Head map for all heads other than Default
Resize to 256x256 for your final texture.
Ideally you'll
want to make your skin to look OK on both head types, but
realistically that is going to be real tough as the lips are
mapped dramatically different. You may end up wanting to focus
on one type of head or make two versions, one for IMVU default
and one all other the other heads.
Male Head
Same issue with the lips plus this ones necks are mapped differently
to boot!
-Green
Neck is for custom heads.
-Pink Neck is for Default heads.
-Purple part of neck is used on IMVU inc clothing meshes that
don't use the body neck.
Skin
Texture Making Starter Files
TIP!
The
IMVU Texturing forum is full of great tutorials on making
skin textures. Check out the Texturing
Tutorials Directory thread to find some great links.
Immortal
Doll
Mayu22 has made
available her own skin files including some of her specialty
colors.
She also has image files available in Jpg format for those
who cannot open PSDs.
IMVU's
Starter Skin File Links
IMVUinc's texture
flies can normally be found on the product page. These files
are all PSDs so you will need a program that can open them
(Photoshop, GIMP, PaintshopPro, etc.) The files will be
zipped so you will need to extract them before using.