Want that gun barrel in gold? Wish it made some sound when firing??? Well then DERIVE IT! Make your own version, and even sell it 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 used for the Chest Guns. Use this to make small changes, such as adjusting the color of the gun barrels:

This is the Wireframe layout for the Chest Guns. This will tell you how every pixel attaches to the model. Use this to make completely new skins from scratch. This is something best left to advanced users:

Here is the Specular map (or Shine) for the Chest Guns. A Specular map is a gray image that defines how reflective an item should be. This only works in IMVU Desktop and IMVU Mobile, and has no effect in IMVU Classic (as of March.2024):

Here is the Normals map for the Chest Guns. This image defines the height effect of the Texture map. DO NOT alter this image directly. If you wish to make your own custom Normal map, please look further below. This only works in IMVU Desktop and IMVU Mobile, and has no effect in IMVU Classic (as of March.2024):

When I make a Normal map, I start out with a grey version of my Texture map, with just the shadows and highlights. Consider the basic level of the surface to be 50% grey. Darken your image to drill down, and add white to build up. You can always get a basic Normal map just by making a copy of your basic texture and removing all color. This is what the Chest Guns Normal map looked like before altering:

To add sound, I highly recommend you download and use Audacity. 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:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity