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This product is a mesh intended for developers to derive from. If you buy it, you will end up with an ugly-looking tank.
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Welcome developer. This is a quick guide to deriving from this mesh, with some information on the texturing patterns used and several templates aimed at making your life easier. This mesh is fully designed to be easily derived from so that you can easily make your own version of it to fit your needs.
This derivable creature cration tank mask features a fully mapped tank complete with water, three posing spots in front of it for the mad doctor and his accomplices, and a laying spot inside the tank for the creature. You can easily turn this mesh into any kind of mad scientist creature creation tank you wish, for use in any Frankenstein, Science-Fiction or Rocky Horror Picture Show settings.
The creation tank features four poses in all. There's one floating pose inside the tank, and three poses behind it for the mad scientist and her helpers. The central pose features her with both hands up in the air in a typical "mad scientist" pose. The poses to the sides are normal standing poses.
All the materials in the mesh have been assigned meaningful names to make it easier to identify them. All of the textures are mapped and non-tiling, and all of them are oppacity mapped. Also, the placeholder textures that are in place are color-coded to help you in easily identify what material they belong to. Nonetheless, here's the templates for all the materials on the mesh, as well as a definition of what they are and their main characteristics. You can download the templates for the textures by right-clicking on their names and selecting "Save file as..." from the context menu. I strongly recommend you use JPG files for your textures.
| Texture name | Image size (WxH) |
Color | Tiling | Notes |
| P00-M00 - Creation Tank | 256 x 512 | No | This texture is opacity-mapped. | |
| P00-M01 - Liquid | 256 x 128 | No | This texture is opacity-mapped. | |
| P00-M02 - Stairs | 128 x 256 | No | Both stairs share the same texture map. | |
| P00-M03 - Creation Tank (top) | 256 x 128 | No | This texture is opacity-mapped. |
Please note that, if you use blending on the tank texture (activated by default), all blending products inside it will disappear. This includes any items worn by the avatar floating inside the tank that have blending enabled, as well as the water texture of the tank itself, if blending is enabled for it. This is an IMVU bug and quite beyond my control. To help fic this problem, the top face of the tank is on a separate texture, so you can turn off blending for that texture. Blending-enabled textures inside the tank will still disappear when looked at from the sides of the tank.