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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.

 
   

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