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To explore, communicate, and connect in Second Life, you'll need to download our 3D browsing software, or what we call the SL Viewer. It's not only fast and easy to download and install, but it's free and contains no spyware.

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Mac users who sign up with the service and download the free Mac client can expect an experience “pretty much like the PC version,” Rosenzweig says. IMVU works on a freemium model—users can. The latest version of IMVU is 539.4 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for Simulation in the Games category. The app is developed by IMVU and its user rating is 5 out of 5.

Advanced Second Life residents may want to experiment with different viewers, including our latest release candidate of the SL Viewer.

Help make the SL Viewer even better! If you're an experienced Resident, then download one of the latest release candidate or project SL Viewers and let us know what you think.

Alternate viewers can be found on our Release Notes page, including Project Viewers, Third-Party Viewers, and the Second Life Development Viewer.

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Introduction

IMVU Studio is our next generation creator tool, currently in development. It will serve as the foundation for new features and optimizations on IMVU Desktop and Mobile, allowing Creators to take their products to a whole new level.

We are offering IMVU Studio as an early Beta, introducing several new features including normal and specular maps, new lighting and a fresh new user interface.

What To Expect from Beta

IMVU Studio is a new platform built from the ground up for both Mac and Windows. Expect to encounter bugs, stability and performance issues. Studio will be continuously updated during this phase and quality will improve with each iteration. We will also be rolling out key features as we move through Beta.

We strongly feel that getting our community involved in the development of your tools early will result in a better product for everyone. Besides, you know your creative process better than we do! We’re excited to get your thoughts, feedback, suggestions and bug reports as we move forward.

New Features

Normal and specular maps
Undo/Redo History
Derivation catalog built into Studio
Control over submesh/material assignments
New user interface
Better security for your assets and project files

Stand Alone App

IMVU Studio is a new stand-alone client. After reviewing your feedback, we concluded that separating Studio and Desktop would result in smaller downloads, allow independent development on each app, and improve the experience for both users and Creators

Backward Compatibility

The underlying structure of how products are created has remained the same in IMVU Studio. About 90% of existing products in our catalog will be derivable into Studio . If you are familiar with Classic Create Mode, you should be able to start creating products in IMVU Studio in no time.

New Features Coming Soon

These will be exposed in future releases

Spotlights – Control cone angle, brightness and falloff
Shadow Maps – Spotlights will have the ability to cast a shadow
Increased Texture Map Sizes – Support 1024 x 1024 texture sizes
Particle System Panel – Particle System 2.0 coming soon

Participating in the Program

Who Can Participate

If you are currently enrolled in the Creator Program, you will have access to IMVU Studio! You are welcome to download Beta and try it out. We appreciate your help and support in this stage of development!

Don’t know what the Creator Program is? Click here to learn more and join!

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