{"id":8111,"date":"2023-11-20T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:10:19","slug":"macos-imvu-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/macos-imvu-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"MacOS &#038; IMVU Toolkit for Blender 4.0+"},"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-69f1bd90c4ebf\" 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-69f1bd90c4ebf\"  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\/macos-imvu-toolkit\/#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\/macos-imvu-toolkit\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/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:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v3u4c6a\/?pub=d3lcu\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For MacOS, the installation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/create.imvu.com\/articles\/studio\/toolkit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IMVU Studio Toolkit<\/a> for use in <b>Blender 4.x<\/b> or above is a two-step process; 1) install the Add-on and note the installation path of the <b>IMVU_Studio_Toolkit.py<\/b> script and then, 2) copy the entirety of <b>IMVU-Studio-Toolkit-Blender<i>[version_iteration]<\/i>.zip<\/b> to that same location. After enabling the Add-on the tools will be accessible as normal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: for more details about installing IMVU Toolkit for Blender on MacOs computers see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/imvu-toolkit-macbook\/\">Installing IMVU Toolkit on Mac (Macbook Pro\/Air etc.)<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #fc0; color: #000; width:98.5%; padding: 1.0em;\"><strong>Important<\/strong>: to install IMVU Toolkit into Blender properly, access to the <strong>User<\/strong> directory is necessary. This is typically shown at the bottom of the Favourites list in Finder. If not visible, with a <strong>Finder<\/strong> instance open, click the <strong>Finder<\/strong>  menu then on <strong>Settings<\/strong> [i]. In the <strong>Finder Settings<\/strong> panel that opens, at the bottom of the <strong>Favourites<\/strong> list, click the checkbox corresponding to the <strong>Home\/House<\/strong> [ii] icon &#8211; this will be labelled the same as the current, logged in User, e.g. &#8220;<em>katsbits<\/em>&#8221; as shown below. The User associated with that item will then be available in Finder [iii] listed under Favourites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/macos\/macos-sidebar-home.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/macos\/macos-sidebar-home.jpg\" alt=\"User Directory in MacOS\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>To be able to install the Toolkit for Blender access is needed to the User directory. If this is now shown, in <strong>Finder Settings<\/strong> [ii] enable the <strong>Home<\/strong> [iii] checkbox.<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Generally speaking it&#8217;s recommended the <a href=\"https:\/\/create.imvu.com\/articles\/studio\/toolkit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IMVU Toolkit for Blender<\/a> be used in conjunction with the current <i>Long Term Support version of Blender<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/lts\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blender 3.6 LTS<\/a>, for sake of being fully compatible with the tools and IMVU Studio.<\/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;<br \/>\n &#8211; 00:00 : Toolkit Download &#038; Install<br \/>\n &#8211; 02:30 : File Path &#038; Finder<br \/>\n &#8211; 05:00 : Enabling Toolkit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37,1045,230],"tags":[1005,1059,194,738,835,1049,1043,1044,1056],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-imvu","category-macos","category-tutorials","tag-add-on","tag-blender-4-x","tag-imvu","tag-imvu-studio","tag-imvu-studio-toolkit","tag-imvu-toolkit","tag-macbook","tag-macos","tag-py"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","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=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}