Get the attention of millions of IMVU customers by letting them play your games with their avatars and their friends!
The IMVU API for Unity is a library that allows users to authenticate with IMVU and load their Mecanim avatar into your app. You can leverage their IMVU assets (avatars and outfits) and their social network from within your app.
IMVU has one of the most dynamic economies on the Internet. Users are always searching for ways to spend IMVU Credits (our virtual currency.) Start building apps now and be ready to leverage the IMVU economy through the features that will become available in future releases.
Users connect with their IMVU username to give your game access to their avatar and their social network * Load a user’s avatar into your app as a Mecanim character * Load a user’s info including 2D images that represent the user’s avatar
Display images of a user’s avatar outfits so you can let users scroll through their outfits and change their outfit within your app * Load a user’s list of friends * Load friend avatars from the user’s friend list to be used as Mecanim non-player characters * Attachment animation settings so avatar attachments (tails, wings, pets) animate automatically * Eye blink settings that define whether or not loaded Avatars will blinks their eye(s) automatically
Read and write from the IMVU Feed where you can post screenshots to the user’s personal IMVU feed and drive virality for your app * Automatic support for **level of detail (LOD)**to keep your frame rate up * Built in network retries and throttlingwhen loading from IMVU to keep your your app robust
UNet Multi-User network support that automatically synchronizes avatar data for your UNet app * OAuth Support: Register your app with IMVU (as noted in the quickStart guide) and customers will leverage the safe and secure OAuth flow for logging in
Once the avatar is in your game you can use ragdoll, equip the character with items, add actions, etc. Anything you can do in Unity you can do with these new avatars…and IMVU customers can use THEIR avatars within the experience you create.
Pan back from the character so they can see themselves. Maybe this is not really 1st person, but you could just pull back when it makes sense for a cut scene or something
Use reflections in windows and mirrors so the user’s can see themselves
Use 1st person, but load the user’s friends (from their social network) as NPCs in the game
Use 1st person in multi-player mode, so the user sees others’ avatars and they see her
Use 1st person, but allow the user to take snapshots of themselves from different cameras, then let them post the image to their IMVU feed. This is a great way to show off a high score or funny scenario, and IMVU is extremely viral. When others see the feed images they’ll want to play the game too.
Use the user’s name and 2d image somewhere on the screen. (User’s create their profile image and that picture alone can help make the game feel more personalized)
Interesting. I looked into IMVU before but this was the deal breaker for me….
I looked through some of the docs, but couldn’t find if there were any standards or naming conventions that would allow us to anticipate an IMVU character’s face morphs, to get lipsync, expressions, etc
Is there anyway to have a Client login to their IMVU account automatically when they login to the game. So like their game account keeps their IMVU data and logs them in to IMVU upon successfully logging into the game?
This would be amazing if the user signup / avatar creation could be integrated right into the game experience without the player being taken into a web view.
As in… a Unity scene loads with IMVU branding … but still within the game’s experience. That would make this package even more attractive!
I have started a fairly large multiplayer world based around the imvu api and it looks like as of today its no longer supported. This is HUGELY DISSAPOINTED and i have wasted quite a large amount of money for my team on this functionality.I wish they would have made an announcement or let someone know they would be deprecating the asset.
Can I ask you if you where ever able to get any answers on the IMVU for UNITY thing? My project was also based around it as well but I can’t seem to get any answers. I thought since we already purchased it it could still be used. My avatar from IMVU is still able to be played in my game but the page for other players to log in on the IMVU site seems to no longer load. Have you heard anything or figured out a workaround?
No i have gotten no response. I have no idea what happened or why. And I have just started working on replacing the characters in my game. This is truly unfortunate. I invested alot in imvu credits to help get characters ready for testing in my game for no reason. As well as being an embarassment for the effort we were promoting.
