{"id":3293,"date":"2020-07-01T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:52:13","slug":"imvu401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu401\/","title":{"rendered":"IMVU 401 &#8211; Furniture Room"},"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-69fe74cb8c9b5\" 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-69fe74cb8c9b5\"  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\/imvu401\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><video poster=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/imvu\/imvu-basics-401_mp4.jpg\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/media\/_401 - furniture room.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 an apartment, a simple furniture room for IMVU using Blender 2.8+ and the Room Starter File.<\/i --><\/p>\n<p><b>Description<\/b> : in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/tag\/furniture-room\/\"><b>Furniture Room<\/b><\/a> tutorial we take a look at making a <i>custom room<\/i> for IMVU. The project starts from the default scene in Blender and a <b>Plain<\/b> mesh primitive (<i>Add \u00bb Mesh \u00bb Plain<\/i>) that&#8217;s shaped into a small apartment that&#8217;s then UV unwrapped and mapped before <b>Append<\/b> is used to bring the object into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/\"><b>Room Starter File<\/b><\/a> for IMVU prep (furniture node, skeleton, etc. set up), export to *.fbx, and final import and assembly in IMVU.<\/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 Room Starter Files.zip\">Room Starter File<\/a> | c. 3 MB.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b> : c. 1:45:00 mins.<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b> : *.mp4 | 1080p | c. 1,100 MB.<br \/>\n<b>Project file<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/imvu\/KatsBits - furniture room.zip\">KatsBits &#8211; Furniture Room<\/a> (zip c. 8 MB &#8211; *.blend, *.fbx, *.tga).<br \/>\n<b>Product ID<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imvu.com\/shop\/product.php?products_id=50178521\">50178521<\/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 21:00 &#8211; Materials &#038; Images.<br \/>\n\u2022 42:00 &#8211; UV unwrap &#038; UV Map.<br \/>\n\u2022 1:03:00 &#8211; Room File Overview &#038; Append<br \/>\n\u2022 1:10:00 &#8211; Nodes, Seats &#038; Skeleton.<br \/>\n\u2022 1:35:00 &#8211; FBX Export &#038; 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\/blenderimvu\/\">&lt; Back (IMVU Basics)<\/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":3667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,707],"tags":[473,203,708,701,604,103,630,474,635,685],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imvu","category-imvu-basics-401","tag-append","tag-fbx","tag-furniture-nodes","tag-furniture-room","tag-imvu-basics","tag-materials","tag-poses","tag-starter-files","tag-uv-unwrapping","tag-vertex-groups"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","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=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}