Newb in need of help: creating Neon products

Bubblegunz
by Bubblegunz · 18 posts
5 years ago in Basic Creator Help
Posted 5 years ago · Author
@DataMine

Will request T3DE as soon as I'm able to then! :D

@Xhynrae

Your solution works interestingly well to clothing that is not a body morph, is what I found! It'll be useful! C:

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Sorry for the delay, in the last days IMVU wasn't playing cool with people from my country it seems, lol! Things started working again yesterday! But are finnicky again this morning. Oh well!

So... I ended up finding out how to work with the effect in a couple things!

For hair, adding the custom .xrf works, as long as the opacity is used in the neon material part. This way the hair will have the animated effect + the transparency on tips as needed. Blame me for trying only full white or black opacity before. Derp!

For clothing that have the skin composition used on Index 7 already... you need to do a swap! Put the .xrf that's on Index 7 (so far I only found clothing with the nakedSkin there) on the slot with the Skin Composition checked (in this case, Index 2).
Then go to the Debug 2 and just do an Override of Asset on the Material with the Index 7 putting the neon.xrf there. No need to add a new material slot there, you work with what you have.
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Then the effect will work normally and just like with the hair, transparency will be done via the neon material's Opacity Map. A bit hard if you want transparency in very specific spots since the neon is usually 512x256 or another kind of retangle and not all textures will follow the size it but it works nicely for jeans with ripped parts, low cuts and shorts on custom bodies.

I'll probably word it better with more images as soon as I can. Not sure if I am explaining it well.

DM, if I can explain it with the images would you copy and adapt it (damn my Engrish) to your topic? I couldn't find any tutorial explaining this swap part before. Maybe if someone else find themselves stuck in a similar animation this could be useful? :<
Posted 5 years ago
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Last edited by NightDragon on Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
Posted 5 years ago · Author
@NightDragon
Hm, ey, Nite! Did you want to say something? The only part that made to the post was a quotation of my own D:
Posted 5 years ago
@bubblegunz it very simple to do this... sometime u need to see debug and also u need to pay attention to the texture they use. mostly they using Code on making figure go neon

-- Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:50 pm --

if u want i got someone who want me to do more i see request on this i may teach two people.
Posted 5 years ago
Rieno has an official tutorial in his group about creating neon covering everything from clothes to hairs. You have to join his group to see it though, so for anonymity use an alt

https://www.imvu.com/groups/group/%25C2%25AEieDesign/

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Direct link to the tutorial
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjr ... MsZhc/edit
Posted 5 years ago
Good question. I gave up to find how to do that.

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