Posted December 22, 2022 by Eruben Thillior
A new version is here! It will stay as open beta for a week just in case any major issues pop up, given that it has quite a few experimental new functionalities! Below, a rundown of all the major updates to this version (and some minor too)
Hopefully much more intuitive. We also overhauled the top left buttons, now the X button will actually fully close the plugin, while "Tray" will send it to the tray so it continues to run in the background and you don't have to deal with the plugin's window. Also, while on the tray, you can close it or re-open it by right-clicking on the tray button
Now VTS P.O.G. supports youtube! Here is a boring yet hopefully useful video tutorial on how to make it work
And here a tldr;
Before each stream, paste the link to the stream waiting room here and then click the "Start youtube" button
The plugin currently supports nightbot for commands or you can use the plugin's own "point window" by capturing it. We will add support to more bots and options in the future.
We didn't think at first people would like and use the chat commands these much, so given feedback from the community we added the following options so you can leave it as a perk for mods, VIPs, or subscribers if you so desire (except VIP, all other options work on youtube too!)
You can now trigger a Vtube Studio hotkey when TTS starts and ends, making it possible to highlight the fact that a TTS is starting, in process, or ending, here is an example by Noctapus, but the limit is the sky!
Now we have official support for png pets through two different methods:
You can find both files on downloads. Browser source is just a literal drag and drop like shown in this video
For the png live2d model, you need to edit its texture. While harder, given that it is integrated into VTS you can drag and drop items on top of it or stick to your model so it is a great alternative. A PSD is included in the texture folder of the model with references.
When using png pets, we highly recommend using the new png mode toggle which will average the parameters a bit more and help make the png mouth movement more consistent. You may also need to tinker with the volume slider to get to the sweat spot for your setup.
PNG models in VTS P.O.G. use 4 frames which are detailed here
We have plans to allow artists to use more complex setups soon, look forward to the next announcements after the holidays.
If you have a model without a blink and/or mouth halfway open frames, you can just repeat idle and mouth open in those frames in that order.
By clicking on this button
You can make a small text input window appear that will be on top of all other programs and games you have open. By clicking on it or pressing F1 while it is open, you can write down stuff on it and send it by either clicking send or enter key.
You can also make the close and drag button appear by clicking on it.
We hope this will be helpful to make quick TTS while playing, and it might be the first step for mute tubers to be able to use the plugin for their content. More updates are to come in this same general direction, so we will highly appreciate feedback on how useful this first step is.
This was, I think, our biggest oversight on release... lol Volume slider! wow! amazing! haha
Happy holidays :D