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Now, you might be wondering why being pro was so hard to achieve and so selective.

Had to have a few pages in the catalog to showcase your work.

Had to be an experienced mesher that could make unique creations.

Outstanding catalog – you had to have the items correctly rated, as well as adding product descriptions and images to the items added to the catalog.

Earn ~ 7,000,000 credits monthly or have tens of thousands of sales.

I don’t remember much, but I do remember some of the insane requirements: There was some serious criteria too, not everyone could apply to be a pro creator. Pro developers had to fill in an application form that was reviewed by IMVU after careful consideration.

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The term was popular for many years, but IMVU decided to switch to naming the users that were making content “ creators” which was a better fit since the term developer was more associated with software developers and the technical people that write code.īeing a pro developer was a serious matter.

Much like the creating process today, it featured various options to create, edit products, meshes, animations etc.Ĭreators were used to be called developers.

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Wanted to re-read something? You better dragged those bubbles fast, otherwise, if the other person created more text bubbles, you’d lose the history fast!īack in the day, if you wanted to create on IMVU, you had to download a separate application called Previewer.

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It was easier to see which window was being active (as Windows would notify the user by coloring the application tab in orange).īack then, all chat bubbles were the same color and there was no option to see the chat displayed as simple text as we do right now. I personally was a fan of the cascade windows. ChattingĬhatting was a separate window from the Inventory/Buddy list and it had several quick buttons on the bottom right of the screen. Although these products were disabled/could no longer be used, IMVU never issued any refunds for this particular matter. I wasn’t around for long to enjoy custom UI skins and after the winter of 2006, the skins were completely removed from the catalog and the items removed from the inventory of users because IMVU had a UI upgrade.

Here is a derivation of this product: Christmas-themed UI skinįunny enough, the category for UI skins exists to this day, but the products were removed from the category, meaning there’s no direct way of browsing through these types of products.

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This UI skin product I believe was quite similar to the dummy bundle, in the sense that you would derive from a base product that did not actually exist (I think).

I used to fangirl over that UI skin a lot because it was well made and I couldn’t afford it. Luckily, my memory is still very good and while I could not find actual screenshots of modified UI using the custom skins, I did find the original product ID, as well as one holiday-themed skin made by pinkpheonix (pinkph oenix today).

Today, that category no longer exists and the parent ID from which items were derived has been hidden, as well as derivations. Original UI Skin for derivation – PID 115658 I remember back in the day wanting to decorate my UI with Christmas-themed UI skins. This was an awesome feature because it allowed you to customize the skin of IMVU. One important difference was that the IMVU version of 2006 had an inventory section for “UI Skins”. The inventory was not yet integrated into the chat window. The chat was a separate window like in the picture above and lo and behold, the IMVU cafeteria is a classic room, but back in the day, it was both really awesome and very boring due to the lack of rooms on IMVU. It’s very strange compared to what we have today, but back then, there weren’t many items in the shop and people would keep small friends list.

The messenger itself had two categories like in the picture above, one for “buddies” and one for “inventory”. The IMVU client was a simple program much like other messenger application from around that time (MSN, Yahoo messenger). I had many memories of old stuff and I tried researching to provide images that could accurately describe what it used to look like back in 2006 and the following years. Note: The following article is written from my own experience. If you’re curious to know how IMVU used to be back in my time, keep on reading (or just look at the pictures :D). I joined IMVU in 2006 and everything back then was much different! From the way the client looked, how shopping was done and even what kind of upgrades you could buy for your avatar. Have you ever wondered how IMVU used to be over 10 years ago? 15 years ago? We’ll dive deep into it! 😀

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