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Game Editing => IMVU Creator Community => Topic started by: CatNoir on September 02, 2020, 09:07:54 PM

Title: Mesh file is too big for imvu
Post by: CatNoir on September 02, 2020, 09:07:54 PM
Goodevening,

I spend 2 days on making myself a pretty decent mesh for imvu, finally done i wanted to put it in shop and imvu says my file is too big... 2,63MB. Looked up on google and found something about polygons? So i lowered those but for some reason the file now is 3,45MB? I even turned on "compress file" for both the mesh and the imvu fbx file. I am at a loss what to do now. I found out its the "chain" i created on the mesh that is so high on polygons but even after trying to lower the polygons on that imvu kept saying it was a bigger file than before. Lowering the poly's on the chain alone will STILL mess up the mesh once i "join" it, making it look horrible. Can someone help me with figuring out how to lower the size of the mesh so i can upload it to imvu witouth having to ruin my design?

Sincerly Daniel
Title: Re: Mesh file is too big for imvu
Post by: kat on September 03, 2020, 09:58:37 AM
Yep that's happens with chains. Forgot to upload these videos a while back on making individual chain links (https://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1090.0) that should then mean being able to created chains that don't break IMVU, obviously subject to how long or complex the chain and links are - basically each link needs to be as low poly as possible before duplication.

(https://www.katsbits.com/images/tutorials/imvu/chain-links.jpg) (https://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1090.0)
Title: Re: Mesh file is too big for imvu
Post by: CatNoir on September 04, 2020, 02:21:22 AM
Thank you! I managed to lower the poly of one chain to 18 and now my mesh went from 4000 to like 1300 and imvu is now accepting it. I also remade the collar part and bell since those were having high poly's too. Again thank you for your help!
Title: Re: Mesh file is too big for imvu
Post by: kat on September 04, 2020, 04:54:59 AM
Oh yep forgot to comment on the necklace.. same thing, they can be made '3D' without adding too many polygons... see here for a simple 'plain' necklace (https://www.katsbits.com/codex/imvu205/) but note how that might be modified to increase the details without necessarily killing IMVU! Basically start as low as possible and add detail where necessary, you don't need much!