I can no longer protect devs from accidental uploads on these as create mode will not allow me to lock them yet allow them to be used so be real careful not to submit.
The tester will load with two dummy avatars. I tried to pose them so you can see all the seams more easily.
One modle is sporting the neck that is on the body texture. 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. Aside the head of the dummy on the right there are exposed mouthparts for seeing those areas normally impossible to see to make it easy to preview dental work, tongue piercing, etc. Once you get your skin textures ready to test load the Skin Tester then just swap out the head and body textures as you normally would.
You can also swap the eye texture and remove the brows by adding an all black opacity there if needed. When happy with the skin edits you will use the normal IMVU inc skin product to derive from to submit with. Male Head. Male Body. Female Head. Female Body. So here is a UV map I made up that shows how all the other heads besides the default head are mapped. Default lips area shown in dark green. You may end up wanting to focus on one type of head or make two versions, one for IMVU default and one all other the other heads.
Same issue with the lips plus this ones necks are mapped differently to boot! If you find yourself in this scenario as a creator getting disabled, make sure you go through all the steps from point 4.
If every step fails, insist on point 4. You will most likely feel depressed, hopeless and alone. You need a clear mind and all the energy you have to fight back. Contact other creators you know about that have gone through the same thing. If you do not know anyone, do not feel ashamed to post on social media, or message a creator in private and ask for help or advice. Have you ever noticed that a very popular creator from whom you have been shopping from for years can no longer be found in the shop?
Creators that have been active for years and have made a name for themselves are most of the time hard working people and it is shocking to see their shop suddenly gone. DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a copyright law that criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works.
In simpler terms, it protects original art and punishes those who steal or use it when they have no rights. Re-rates happen when a product which is available in the shop as General Audience gets flagged and is re-rated to Access Pass Only. The hashtag was created by IMVU user Pastel in February after a significant number of creators who are also present on social media were disabled. Pastel also became the voice of the movement which aims to bring visibility to the injustice some creators face based on false DMCA takedowns and losing their income.
In reality, it hurts everyone involved, especially creators, the ones that people actually wanted to save , ironically. From personal experience and the amazing creator community I know, we are all aware of the bad things that happen and can happen at any point. It actually does seem a bit suspicious. So, what happens to the rest of the money? It stays in your account until you cash out the next month and the next month and so on.
If you stop creating completely and earn nothing for the next 6 months, you will still be cashing out the available balance that you had. Your MASA will go down, meaning that it will take you longer to cash out all the money that you made in 10 months. Opening a ticket to request your money will not make any progress on this, as your balance will be stuck. Banks use your money to bet on the stock market, just like Wall Street does.
If you make a deposit of 10 million dollars today, you will be unable to cash out 10 million dollars tomorrow due to bank limits which you are aware of when creating your bank account and, in reality, the harsh truth that the bank actually used some of your money. It will tell you to wait 10 days to give your money back.
The issue is that the available cash balance is held in place much longer than someone would expect. If you start creating on IMVU full time and get spikes in sales, the system is made in such way that you need to start losing money, but at the same time keep creating until you can cash out all the available money. It has happened for a very popular hair creator to get a DMCA notice that targeted tens of thousands of products.
That is straight up abuse and harassment. As stated earlier, if you get a DMCA takedown notice containing multiple products, you might get disabled right away, before you can prove your innocence. In , the creator community was shocked to discover some new changes added to the creator Terms of Service that no one had known about.
In specific situations, some products with a nude-colored MCG can be very blurry for General Audience, such as:. While the product does have a MCG which covers the red parts as instructed by IMVU, the color is nude, meaning that it blends in with the skin and it might seem that the top is only made out of straps to cover the breasts.
Following this subjective logic, no color should be allowed for the MCG layer. Maybe some people are wearing a green skin, thus a green MCG might produce the same visual reaction that might make a product look AP, when it is actually GA. Most creators use white and black I also advise to use these colors , but it can still be very subjective — there are extremely pale skintones in the catalogs, as well as extremely dark ones. After the creator community figured out people were getting banned for the nude MCG, it was discovered that the implementation of the ban was also subjective.
Some creators only had the item re-rated, others had cash withdrawn from their balance because IMVU refunded people after re-rating the item , others got disabled. Same offence, different implementation.
How many wrong products is too many? If you have an active cash balance and you get disabled, you lose your balance due to MASA holding your money for so long. Of course, there is a bit more information to be added here, as IMVU does have a system in place for creators that get banned for a longer period of time years.
I know no case in which a creator got a ban for a long period of time and limited and not worry about cashing out their balance sometime in the future. The cases I personally know of are short-term bans and permanent bans. It is important to point out that high earning creators that have gone through such a scenario have permanently lost their accounts and the associated cash balances.
The movement saveimvucreators has not had a significant impact on sales, or any at all. This means that regular IMVU users continued shopping as normal. Only use full days to have an accurate estimation for a full day.
However, this does not mean the movement cannot or will not have a noticeable impact. As a matter of fact, it did. This was the goal too. Looking forward, the movement should not be used to boycott IMVU, as it will do more harm than good.
Not only this, but going after people on social media for not sharing or posting content in support with SaveIMVUCreators does not give you a right to insult them. Similar to the Black Lives Matter movement which was big on IMVU too, the goal was to raise awareness against discrimination, against racism.
The solution? For people to be kinder, more accepting, to be fair to each other. Not at all. Those types of posts are actually very manipulative and hurtful, as they try to focus the attention on the movement itself, not what the movement stands for, which is what actually matters.
So no, creators or other users refusing to share on social media posts that bring awareness are not bad people. The bad people are those who believe that a user abstaining from commenting is part of the problem.
They are not. Furthermore, if you stop buying, you are not hurting IMVU, you are hurting creators. Creators already have full paychecks pending from IMVU. There are thousands of entries for contests, tens of thousands of feed posts every day. The people who care about the creator community represent a minority of IMVU. Please also note that only a tiny fraction of the creator community is directly affected by the DMCA abuse. While the rest of creators are not directly affected, most of them are genuinely concerned and do not speak up for fear of losing their accounts or becoming targets.
If you really want to make a positive impact, go have fun. Go take part in events, go post that cute picture, go shop, but do it carefully. While the movement is, in theory, a great way to raise awareness for the creator community, there have been voices that have gone against everything IMVU is.
More precisely, users are using the hashtag to complain about the income for creators and how some creators that have been permanently disabled cannot get their accounts back. You knew about this when you signed up. You knew about the derivation process before you agreed to become a creator. Why is this a topic now? To me, it seems that people just want to get their frustration out there and are absuing the whole idea behind the movement. Some users have also been complaining about high prices on IMVU.
I find this amusing since the average user has hundreds of products in their inventory and go on shopping sprees several times a week.
Secondly, many creators who have been recently banned should have seen this coming. I did careful and intensive research. The only thing you should do is to start over, work hard for a couple of years, deserve the income you earn, then advocate. Filling false DMCA claims against creators is a crime and it is punishable with very expensive fines or prison up to 5 years. Hiding your real identity behind false DMCA claims does not protect you from lawsuits — it actually increments the criminal charges.
DMCA lawsuits are common. They are expensive, but there are plenty of law firms that will do it for free and when the case is won, they will take a high commission. Report people that have a bad behavior. Do not click on links from people you do no trust. Derive from trusted creators. Do not use extracted textures or meshes.
Do not use branded content. If you are looking for inspiration, always inform yourself of any patented resources the brand might have and avoid them. Do not buy credits outside IMVU.
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