{"id":3236,"date":"2020-06-16T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:52:13","slug":"imvu302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu302\/","title":{"rendered":"IMVU 302 \u2013 Furniture w\/ Pose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 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-6a03f6f423017\" 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-6a03f6f423017\"  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\/imvu302\/#description\" >Description<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu302\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><video poster=\"\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/media\/_302 - furniture beanbag.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><!--<source src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/collections\/collection-shortcut.ogg\" type=\"video\/ogg\" \/>\n<source src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/collections\/collection-shortcut.webm\" type=\"video\/webm\" \/>--><\/video><br \/>\n<!-- i>Making a simple furniture item with custom pose for IMVU in Blender 2.8+ using the furniture & pose Starter Files.<\/i --><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/tag\/accessory\/\"><b>Furniture<\/b><\/a> item tutorial we take a look at making a simple <i>custom beanbag seat with custom pose<\/i>. The project starts using the default Cube and scene in Blender before using <b>Append<\/b> to bring the mesh in to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/\">Furniture Starter File<\/a> for IMVU prep. Once this is done the result is brought into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/\">Pose Starter File<\/a> to create the custom avatar pose which is then exported to FBX separately from the furniture file, both then imported and assembled in IMVU, an <b>Action<\/b> being needed for the pose.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #ddecf3; color: #000;\"><p>\n<b>Download<\/b>: Starter Files for this exercise.<br \/>\n &bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/imvu\/KatsBits - Blender Avatar Starter Files.zip\">Avatar Starter File<\/a> | c. 8 MB.<br \/>\n &bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/imvu\/KatsBits - Blender Alt Pose Files.zip\">Alternative Pose Starter File<\/a> (<a href=\"#alt-poses\"><i>cf. more info below<\/i><\/a>) | c. 3 MB.<br \/>\n &bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/imvu\/KatsBits - Blender Furniture Starter Files.zip\">Furniture Starter File<\/a> | c. 4 MB).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: when setting up an action in actions tab for the pose (the XAF file converted from imported FBX), the <b>Trigger<\/b> value for a single seat item can be <b>stance.Idle<\/b> or <b>stance.[Customlable]<\/b>, i.e. <b>stance.Beanbag1<\/b>. For items with multiple seats the trigger and seat node labels (names) need to be the same and numerically increase, e.g. three seats might be <b>stance.Beanbag1<\/b> through <b>stance.Beanbag3<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b> : c. 30:00 mins.<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b> : *.mp4 | 1080p | c. 300 MB.<br \/>\n<b>Project file<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/imvu\/KatsBits - furniture beanbag.zip\">KatsBits &#8211; Furniture Beanbag<\/a> (zip c. 3 MB &#8211; *.blend, *.fbx, *.png).<br \/>\n<b>Product ID<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imvu.com\/shop\/product.php?products_id=50029466\">50029466<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate;<br \/>\n\u2022 00:00 &#8211; Overview &#038; Mesh Editing.<br \/>\n\u2022 05:00 &#8211; Materials, UV &#038; Texture Maps.<br \/>\n\u2022 09:00 &#8211; Furniture Prep.<br \/>\n\u2022 13:30 &#8211; Avatar Pose.<br \/>\n\u2022 22:00 &#8211; IMVU Assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: see links below for more on topics shown in the video;<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/left-click-select\/\">Setting up left or right mouse click<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/smoothing\/\">What is Mesh Smoothing?<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/blender-basics\/\">The basics of Blender<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/material-basics\/\">Material basics, using Nodes in Blender<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-materials\/\">IMVU compliant material names<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu301\">&lt; Back (IMVU 301)<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; float: right;\">Next (coming soon) &gt;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,692],"tags":[473,687,704,605,195,194,604,103,630,693,474],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imvu","category-imvu301","tag-append","tag-armatures","tag-avatar","tag-blender-for-imvu","tag-furniture","tag-imvu","tag-imvu-basics","tag-materials","tag-poses","tag-seat-dummies","tag-starter-files"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","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=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}