In addition to the main IMVU tutorials, I’ve made a few tutorials of my own. Most are videos though a few have text/screenshots. I had fun learning about Max and IMVU while making these – hopefully they can be helpful to others.
note that each of these shows how to setup the product using the old previewer, not Create Mode. The steps are identical though except for exporting XRF files. You still have to setup materials and name them – you just don’t need to export the XRF files.
Beginner
- Keyboard and Mouse Tips
- Fix the ‘White Avatar’ Issue
- How to use Lathe and keep it low poly
- How to use Sweep and keep it low poly (Max 8+, not Max 7)
- How to make a cinched waist
- Triggered Pose Tutorial
- Material names
- How to make a layered glove
- UVW Mapping tips for hair, including fix for “bleeding” textures
- How to use “snap” tool – good for attaching feet and hands
- (Text only) How to make a hand-held item for either male or female avatar
- Simple Accessory – horns on avatar head
- Simple Accessory – horns on avatar head (fast version without all the fluff)
- Video of making bicycle gears, pedals, and a wheel with animation
- Skinning in 3ds Max for IMVU – Part 1 of 3
- Skinning in 3ds Max for IMVU – Part 2 of 3
- Skinning in 3ds Max for IMVU – Part 3 of 3
Intermediate
- Making hair
- Skintight skirt pt 1
- Skintight skirt pt 2
- Adding custom pose to furniture
- Adding two avatar poses to furniture
- Creating a Room in 3ds Max (3 part tutorial)
- Animated Accessory – Spinning Halo
- Accessory with two textures – shows two methods
- Animated Accessory Tutorial in 3ds Max – A Tail, and Wings
Advanced
Shoe Tutorial Part 1 – Making the foot smaller(to be removed – see new shoe tutorial below)Shoe Tutorial Part 2 – Re-weighting the foot, exporting(to be removed – see new shoe tutorial below)- Layered Clothing (basis for skintight clothing) – meshing and weighting
- Making Low Poly Furry Tails in 3ds Max for IMVU – Part 1 of 2
- Making Low Poly Furry Tails in 3ds Max for IMVU – Part 2 of 2
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU – Part 1 of 3
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU – Part 2 of 3
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU – Part 3 of 3
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU Bonus: Buiding the foot
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU Bonus: Modeling the shoe mesh
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU Bonus: UV Mapping the Shoe
- Shoe and Boot Tutorial for 3ds Max and IMVU Bonus: Skinning the Shoe and final mesh edits
Hi ner..wonder if you could help me as i can’t view your tuts on my smartphone…have moved and not on pc internet..
I’m still making things for when i do come back online…
I have made a dress with another layer over the top and wanting to also add the shorts in…do i weigh them separately and then select Dress shorts and layer and export them…or am i doing this all wrong..please could you give me alittle info…many thanx hunni x
Hi Nerseus,
i had watched your horn tutorial, its awesome how you explain and show what to do. I had created skeleton(like dummy) and mesh file for the horn, i did step by step and when i uploaded in create mode, it didnt show any options for new texture file. i up the skeleton and then mesh but no changes. is there any idea where did it go wrong?
Thnaks for tutorials. take care
You should do a Tut on making shirt’s and somewhat
But other then that great Tutorials d(0.0)
Hi, I just want you to know that I’ve learned much from your tutorials and I really love it and I want to thank you for the effort that you make doing this.
Basically I’m facing a problem with one of the tutorials which is the “Skintight” both parts, basically every time I follow your steps and do exactly as you do but when it comes to the step of attaching the skirt to the body like right before that my view port shows the skirt nested with the “nakedPelvis” mesh, when i checked the 2nd part of the tutorial I found that you had slightly the same problem at “3:25″ of the video on both sighs of the avatar and like you pulled them out with the movement tool, I tried that and it didn’t work good for me as I kept pulling the mesh trying to fit it around with no size change, my question is – is that the only way to get around it or do you recommend something else? thanks in advance for your help.
Hey Nerseus,
first of all thank you for those nice tuts. Can’t seem to figure out how to create an Animated Accessoire though, the Tutorial for that is really out of date and doesnt work for me at all. Always crashes when trying to export the mesh.
Maybe you could do a really quick new one?
Greetings from Germany,
Roman
Scratch that… i don’t know what i did different now but i just tried it one more time and it worked -.-
thank you so much for these wonderful tutorials. they’ve been most helpful
Thanks For Help Nerd! You Are Number One ^_^
hey hw r u? wow! u helpin so much, can u pls help me , how to add a belt on the cloth,or skirt?can u answer me in my email?my english is not good but i hope u did understand me..i will thank u so much for that..hugs
Hi Ner, i’m from the Netherlands and your tuts are awesome. It makes me 3D Max more understand how it works and since the last three months i used 3D Max for creating on imvu. I have seen the tut of furniture pose and couple pose and it works great for me because of you, thank you so much. But now i have a question for you, because now i know how to make a standard furniture pose and couple i want more
I wanna learn how to make a animation couple pose and i found a lot on the web with bip files of mocap, but can i change the animation how i want it? or can i make a couple animation without the bip file? If so, can you make a tut how to make a animation couple pose? Thanks for all your work, i’m a big fan of you. Greatings from the Netherlands.
A very useful tutorial, but I can make IMVU products, I also learned 3ds max as well.
I have always wanted to learn 3ds max. finally now understand little by little. sir please help tutorial to create a tall avatar from 3dsmax.
Thank you so much. I hope better n better.
Hello. I know you don’t know me but i jsut started to do meshing and your videos are just amazing. Thanks a lot. I keep saving them all so i can use them to help me when i make something.
Thanks to your tutorial i jut made some earrings :p (yes i know baic stuff but eh T.T i just started with 3D max). I just want ot thank you and can’t wait for more tutorials. I am a complete dummy and for me 3D max is still science fiction so far.
But hopefully i will use your videos, some other tuts and youtube to learn
I admit i wish i could find a more, well accurate on how to make hairs, like a imple haircut :p. One day maybe. Thanks a lot 
Love your tutorials Ner! I’d love to see something in depth on making the actual shoe, how to make the mesh, what modifiers may need to be used etc! But, I do learn soooo much from your tutorials! I wish I had the patience to pay it forward, though I do try where I can!
Nerseus my thanks … will greatly help your tutorials.
Thank you for the comment, Lindomar!! I love hearing they help out. Gives me courage to keep making them.
Your tutorials are great, they help a lot for someone starting 3DS Max like me. Though, if I had any suggestions/request it would be if you could tweak your audio a bit. Some times its fuzzy and some times it’s quiet and choppy so I have to turn up my speakers pretty loud. Other than that you’re just as good at doing tutorials as Bucky Roberts(thenewboston.com) or Andrew Crammer(videocopilot.net). ^^ Thanks a ton!
Good comment! I will try to do some editing going forward. Thus far, I have no script and no rehearsal. I just jump in and record. I know how to edit, I just haven’t committed any time to it yet. That would also mean listening to myself talk and if I have to do that, I might not ever release anything.
But hissing and such – I can work on that! Thanks for the feedback!