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Back to reality, the Turret is a Furniture item, so you can clone as many copies as you like. Buy one and drop dozens! You can also scale the turret, but the avie will scale to match. Use the Furniture Tool to clone, scale, move, and rotate the Turret. Hold down Ctrl and Alt to change the function you've selected.
Don't like the Silver finish? Wish the Turret actually made some SOUND?? Then DERIVE IT! Make your own version, and even sell it in the catalog for a small markup over my original, and you can keep the extra profits for yourself! You can express yourself AND earn credits at the same time. How's that for a sweet deal? You'll need a full account on IMVU, as well as a copy of Previewer. You can find out more about Deriving on the IMVU's Education Center. Below are the templates you'll need to get started:
This is the texture map used for the Turret's Chair and Controls. I scaled the actual texture down to 256x256, where as this image is original size. Use this to make small changes to the look of the Chair section:
This is the Wireframe layout for the Turret's Chair section. Use this to make completely new texture maps from scratch, as it will let you see the exact placement of every pixel on the model's body. This is something best left for the advanced users:
This is the texture map for the Supports that hold the Chair section and Gun section together. The actual model's Supports texture has been scaled down to 256x256 to save on file space:
This is the Wireframe layout for the Supports section:
This is the texture for the Gun and Optics section:
This is a version of the Gun texture with no Logos or writing, so you can easily add you own:
This is the Wireframe for the Gun section:
This is the texture for the Holographic Display that appears whenever you sit in the Turret. Since I reduced this image to just 128x128 pixels, I made the areas around text and symbols the same color. If not, black edges would have been visible on all of the edges. If you redo texture, make sure you too add extra color around the edges, so your graphics remain crispy and colorful:
This is the Opacity texture for the Holographic Display. Anything that's black will be visible, and everything that's white will be solid. You can use gray for a "glass" appearance, but it's so small, it's best to use solid black and white, so you're edges are crisp and distinct:
This is the animated texture you see on the Gun's Prongs. If you change the color and look, make sure you add a faint glow of that new color on the Gun Prong's texture, in the Gun texture. It will make the energy flow look more realistic:
Thi is the texture for the Plasma Bolts that shoot out. I have mine animated, so the texture has continuous edges. If you decide to make single, solid bolt, make sure to turn off the animation in the material tab:
This is the Opacity texture for the Plasma Bolt:
If you use sound effects for the firing sequence, be aware that looping sound will play even after you get off the guns. Also I highly recommend you download and use Audacity for your sound editing. It's a free sound editing tool that can export out OGG sound files. OGG sound files compress down to less then 1/10th the file size of WAV files. SO USE OGG FILES!!! You can download it here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/