{"id":1980,"date":"2019-09-30T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:03:01","slug":"imvu103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu103\/","title":{"rendered":"IMVU 103: Introducing the Starter Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69fc31a8b87a3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69fc31a8b87a3\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu103\/#description\" >Description<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHB_S7e24VY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #ddecf3; color: #000;\"><p><b>Download<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/\">IMVU Starter Files for Blender<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The best way to make content for IMVU using Blender is to begin everything from one of the compatible Starter Files, a collection of *.blend files each containing all the essential elements and components needed to make products, avatar dummies, starter meshes and more to help mesh furniture, animate poses, create clothing and more complex mixed (catalogue) category items, it can all be made using Blender. More details given as each Starter File is used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/blenderimvu\/\">throughout the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b> : c. 3 minutes (00:03:00).<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b>: 1080p | n\/a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: for newer versions of Blender a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/#download\">Alternative Starter Files<\/a> are available that are organised to be more user friendly but function in exactly the same way as the legacy files described, e.g. bones and meshes are selected and manipulated the same way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/imvu\/alternative-starter-files.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/imvu\/alternative-starter-files.jpg\" alt=\"Alternative files for Blender\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>The Alternative Starter Files are organised to be more user friendly but function, and are used, in exactly the same way as the original files.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Want More?<\/b> see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/blenderimvu\/\">IMVU Basics for Blender<\/a> tutorial series free (<i>incl. *.blend &amp; .fbx example files<\/i>)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu102\/\">&lt; Back (IMVU 102)<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; float: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu201\/\">Next (IMVU 201) &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,603],"tags":[605,194,604,631,474],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imvu","category-imvu101","tag-blender-for-imvu","tag-imvu","tag-imvu-basics","tag-overview","tag-starter-files"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}