Furniture, Plants & building your own scene

[cybercat]

I've been looking for a tutorial or even just some basic info on this and I can't find any thing.

Does any one know where I can get some information on not developing a 3d scene but just buying items to put in a room?

My main concern is  how many items ya can put in a room before it starts being a memory issue and causing the chat to lag.

Thanks!!

[ephemral]

You can have quite a few items in a room. It's more of an issue about how many polygons are in the items or how  large the textures are. Just check the product page to see how large the item file is. The rest depends on who's computer you're useing.
If you've only got a standard video card and 256 megs of ram you won't be able to add tons of stuff. 3D programs like lightwave and 3d Max normaly recomend a minimum of 512 megs for smoothe running.

I run IMVU off of a 350Mhz pc useing standard graphics. I get less than five frames per second.
This computer is old. If you're system is new or up to date you shouldn't have a problem unless you turn all your graphic settings up.

I don't have hard facts and numbers, but there is a limit to how many seats you can add to a scene. That can be hacked though.
There is one scene/locked room that has 70+ seats.

You should open a room and just add one item to it. Note the file size. Then add muliple copies of it.
See how many you can get before it bogs down the animation and movement of the camera.

[cybercat]

Thanks for the info! So far it's worked okay lag wise, the only other issue now seems to be how careful ya have to be when putting in standing spots. They can apparently get stuck ;(

I noticed in a chat with Razi one standing spot got affected by a scaling of an object. that ended up happening in  the room i assembled only now i can't seem to remove the standing spot!

I ended up having to shift the scene around to try to avoid the spot. =( unfortunatly there isn't much room. bleh.

[ephemral]

Do you mean you can't delete it after clicking on the delete option?

With standing spots it's best to scale them bafore placeing them near furniture.
Just because the seat icons can over lap and cause trouble. Also the item icon can do the same.
If you're just haveing trouble getting to the icon to access it's options try removeing the surounding objects from the room first.
After you're sure you've gotten rid of it you can start adding stuff back.

They need to add another tab to the messenger to keep track of what's in the room and better access to their options.