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# Research

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### IMVU

IMVU works on a placement node system. You can only place objects at the pre-positioned nodes. After placing the object, you can scale and rotate it.

The camera does not benefit the placement. There are often things getting in the way, such as a roof.

There is a large variety of buttons to control the object, but the images can be confusing. For example, copying properties uses a paint brush but you would expect the paint brush to be able to pick a color.

Being able to replace a selected item is a nice feature. However, I am not sure if that is implementable in our current plans.

### Design

My furniture placement will need to be based on a sims-like furniture placement system.

In sims the object shows whether it collides with existing objects, it is draggable on a grid, selectable, rotatable and the furniture can be edited in its colors.

The colors are not a desired feature, but the rest is and will be part of my assignment.