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Welcome to Keef's IMVU Developer Tutorials

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day
Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime
Getting angry at a man who doesn't know how to fish yet is infantile

As I discover how to do things I’ll try and share my discoveries with you so you can be a developer too. This is not intended as a replacement for the IMVU tutorials but as a supplement.

I STRONGLY suggest you first complete the IMVU supplied tutorials to gain a basic understanding of the tools.

In order to be an IMVU developer you must buy your name and register as a developer. You will be unable to submit a product until you do so.

Remember, No one learned to do this overnight, so take your time, learn at your own speed and have fun allong the way!

 

 

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~Keef's Developing Guides~

Previewer Tips and Tricks

The Previewer's Texture Tab, Texture Animations
(written for Pre. 1.9)

-A Texture Tab Overview & How to Make Cycling and Scrolling Animation in the Previewer.
-A description of EVERY option on the Previewer’s texture tab.
-A click by click tutorial on making scrolling animations
-A click by click tutorial on making cycling animations.

The Hidden World of the XRF, Adding Opacity

How to add Opacity to anything and how to customize XRFs for use in Your Products

Q and A, Body Parts

Compatibility Issues
How to make a hair product layer

 

General and Getting Started Information

A Shortcut Guide to IMVU's Creator Education Center A Guide to help you navigate IMVU’s creator center

What is a Content Creator

I Want to Develop Too, Developer Basics Quick Answers to common getting started in developing questions.

Becoming a Developer
Understanding Copyright
The Previewer
Deriving
Pricing
Getting Paid
Tracking Sales

Credits Promos and Tokens, A basic guide to IMVU’s Currency and its Economy.

 

Content Policy

IMVU’s Content Guidelines What it all means to you as a developer
Peer Review A guide to understanding Peer Review.
IMVUs Creater Incentive Programs

Tiers An Explanation of IMVU's Tier Rewards program
Promotional Bundles Tips on making Promo Bundles
Product Bundles How to package items in a bundle
Q and A, Pro Dreams So you want to be a Pro...

Product Making General

Keef's Total Noob’s (and old farts) Guide to Deriving Deriving and Deriving chains explained
File Formats What’s the difference between JPG GIF and PNG anyway? And what the heck is 2x?
Q and A, How to force a prodcut update
How to Take Product Screenshots

 

Stickers

How to Submit Stickers! A quick guide to what you need and how to submit your stickers.

General Texture Making

NEW!! Animated Celled Textures
Ruffed Cloth
(photshop CS)

Skins and Eyes

Skinners Resource Page! Keef's Skin Testers!, Skin Templates,Skin Texture Download Links
Q & A, Neck Issues
A Neck Querk you need to know about if making skins
Q & A, Eyes

Rooms

Clothing Texture Making

Make a Shirt in Photoshop
(written for Pre. 1.9)

-How to use the Mapping Template.
-Takes you step by step through using the Previewer.
-How to make a texture from scratch in Photoshop.
-Photoshop tricks.
-How to submit your product.
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And, with the update I added what I hope are extremely clear instructions on the IMVU pricing structure, since it seems to be a common point of confusion.

How to Retexture a Shirt with an Opacity Map using Photoshop
(written for Pre. 1.9)

-Explores what an Opacity map is.
-How to derive from a developer product.
-How to determine what has an Opacity Map.
-A short lecture on copyright
-Tips on how to make a texture when an Opacity map is a part of the design.
-How to make an Opacity map for your texture.

 

Other's Tutorials!

Cool Links to other developer's tutorials.

     
   

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