(Irot/Pastelrot - Now Ghoulette - is a good friend of mine, I highly recommend checking out her stuff!) She is also a super trustworthy person if you ever want to purchase files/bases for things. She has so many good video tutorials, not just for skins, but all kinds of things. Honestly, I cannot recomennd Amaranth's channel enough. īabbit Face Tut (male, but still gives general idea) It is FAR too easy to just take a nose that was stolen directly off someone else's work, or worse, was a file someone had been selling. This is one of the major reasons IMVU has stopped letting them in their forums in the first place. Some of those are stolen and you may face DMCA actions against you.ĭO NOT download freebies unless they are from a trusted source. LadyMorphine's Head / Second head / Body templates.ĪVOID USING GOOGLE FOR FREE FILES. If you would like them already in PSD format, I suggest downloading this skin template) (This is where those lovely body maps come from. It's good in general to keep an eye on what connects where, you'll notice the back is split in half on the sides of the wireframe, so whatever you do on the left HAS to match what is on the right or your shading can look all kinds of silly on the body itself. ĭifferent clothing pieces could use either the neck on the head portion of the skin, or on the body of the skin. I HIGHLY recommend reading over Keef's skinning page for more info on that, because the male one is miles different than the female one. NOTE: It is important that you make your skin so BOTH neck areas look correct as these necks are interchangeable depending on the outfit the avatar is wearing. Minority83/Parcel's body map with white lines (added by me, Parcel) showing locations of things like elbows, shoulder blades, butt, chest, belly button, and knees ![]() Minorty83's body map with connection highlights n body part labels Some more maps to look at to really get the idea of how things connect and where they sit: Super important for learning how the map "maps" out. Every matching color on these are where the parts connect to each other, on both files. Now this head works for both guys and girls skins. ![]() I also have a couple of body maps from an old skin freebie (for the full freebie scroll down and look for Minorty83), which have some elements that match/mimic color match help directly in the file itself. Keef's pages on skinning are SUPER DUPER helful if you have NO idea where to start. Not to toot this sites own horn, but Keef's greatness was one thing that really got a lot of us started. Below is a general / visual set of resources to give you a quick overview of the maps. In order to get started with skins, it's important to understand the mapping IMVU uses for it's skins. If you check Keef's resources a bit further down, you'll see what I mean. The templates themselves for male and female are nearly identical, save the soles of the feet. ![]() As a note, I will be using the FEMALE template.
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