{"id":3721,"date":"2020-10-08T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:51:56","slug":"magic-pumpkin-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/magic-pumpkin-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Pumpkin Bike"},"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-6a13eb2eb31b9\" 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-6a13eb2eb31b9\"  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\/magic-pumpkin-bike\/#videos\" >Videos<\/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\/magic-pumpkin-bike\/#description-info\" >Description &#038; Info<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/magic-pumpkin-bike\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"videos\"><\/span>Videos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a name=\"video1\" id=\"video1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Modelling the Pumpkin<\/h4>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0;\"><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0!important; padding: 0!important; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giis9ax3cgM?rel=0\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"video2\" id=\"video2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Materials &#038; UV Unwrapping<\/h4>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0;\"><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0!important; padding: 0!important; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvRjajBGx-Y?rel=0\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"video3\" id=\"video3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Furniture Prep &#038; Poses<\/h4>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0;\"><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0!important; padding: 0!important; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xq6pVJJDBgo?rel=0\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description-info\"><\/span>Description &#038; Info<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In this set of IMVU videos for Creatween 2020 (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitch.tv\/katsbits\">Live recorded Twitch stream<\/a>, may include off-topic chat<\/i>), we take a look at using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/blender-vs-blender\/\">Blender 2.83 LTS<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/\">Furniture and Pose Starter Files<\/a> to make a Witches Magic Pumpkin Bike&#8230; a simple pumpkin furniture item with handle bars and a custom &#8216;riding&#8217; pose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Additional Resources<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-starter-files\/>Blender Starter Files for IMVU<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/tag\/imvu\/>Make more IMVU items using Blender here<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/blenderimvu\/>IMVU Basics tutorial series for Beginners<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#video1\">Video I<\/a> : the pumpkin is made by dropping a <b>UV Sphere<\/b> into the Scene (at the 3D Cursors location) which is reduced using the &#8216;mesh&#8217; panel from 32 down to 16 sides making the object more manageable. In <b>Edit Mode<\/b> this is then cut and shaped, handlebars then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/edit-mode-basics\/\">extruded<\/a> roughly from the top to form the overall pumpkin &#8216;bike&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#video2\">Video II<\/a> : some minor adjustments are made to the mesh before Materials are assigned and used to aid UV Unwrapping the object and assigning two images to the resulting UV Maps are semi-temporary placeholders (over-writes the generated &#8216;Color Grid&#8217; images).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#video3\">Video III<\/a> : with the Pumpkin mesh complete and textured it finally needs to be prepared as a furniture items for IMVU using vertex groups and parenting. Once done core elements can be appended into the Alternative Pose File for a custom seat pose<\/p>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b>:<br \/>\n &#8211; Video I : Meshing &#8211; c. 1 hr 10 mins (01:10:00).<br \/>\n &#8211; Video II : Materials &#038; UVs &#8211; c. 1 hr 10 mins (01:10:00).<br \/>\n &#8211; Video III : Custom Pose &#8211; c. 1 hr 30 mins (01:30:00).<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b>: 1080p | Total c. 3.5 GB.<br \/>\n<b>Source<\/b>: n\/a.<br \/>\n<b>Product ID<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imvu.com\/shop\/product.php?products_id=51557761\">Witches Magic Pumpkin Bike<\/a>.<\/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 2.8<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/material-basics\/\">Material basics, using Nodes in Blender 2.8<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-materials\/\">IMVU compliant material names<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate (<i>chapter\/timestamp markers<\/i>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"#video1\">Video I : Meshing<\/a> &#8211; c. 1 hr 10 mins (01:10:00).<br \/>\n&#8211; 00:00 : Stream Start.<br \/>\n&#8211; 03:30 : Overview &#038; Pumpkin.<br \/>\n&#8211; 18:00 : Materials &#038; UV Maps.<br \/>\n&#8211; 22:00 : Handlebars &#038; Optimisation.<br \/>\n&#8211; 50:00 : Further Editing &#038; Retopology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#video2\">Video II : Meshing<\/a> &#8211; c. 1 hr 10 mins (01:10:00).<br \/>\n&#8211; 00:00 : Stream Start.<br \/>\n&#8211; 02:45 : Overview &#038; Optimisation.<br \/>\n&#8211; 12:00 : Textures &#038; UV Unwrapping.<br \/>\n&#8211; 40:00 : Pinning UV&#8217;s.<br \/>\n&#8211; 1:00:00 : Materials &#038; Texture Maps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#video3\">Video III : Meshing<\/a> &#8211; c. 1 hr 30 mins (01:30:00).<br \/>\n&#8211; 00:00 : Stream Start.<br \/>\n&#8211; 03:00 : Overview, Prep &#038; 1st Export.<br \/>\n&#8211; 22:00 : Seat Nodes, &#038; 2nd Export.<br \/>\n&#8211; 28:00 : Pose File &#038; Append.<br \/>\n&#8211; 35:00 : Posing, Prep &#038; 3rd Export.<br \/>\n&#8211; 1:07:00 : Pose Fixes &#038; 4th Export.<br \/>\n&#8211; 01:21:30 : Final Export.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twitch Alternatives<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/762311040>Video I<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/763242957\">Video II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/764171671\">Video III<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37,230],"tags":[217,200,605,195,194,103,655],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-imvu","category-tutorials","tag-action-editor","tag-avatar-poses","tag-blender-for-imvu","tag-furniture","tag-imvu","tag-materials","tag-uv-editing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","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=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/7513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}