veadotube mini 2.1 is out, today! which also happens to be the 4th anniversary of the veadotube project :] first, let's see what changed:
- push-to-talk! set a shortcut and use it to enable/disable the microphone. you can also now select no microphone whatsoever, and use the shortcut itself to speak!
- better usability for state effects! they're now grouped by type, and can be copied and pasted entirely, leading to less work when configuring effects.
- new backend! we upgraded to .NET 9 and SDL3 in all platforms, meaning a lot better stability and microphone & gamepad support for all platforms. we also fixed a weird .NET bug, which then got the executable down to about 15 mb, which is nice :]
- macOS Silicon support! if you got one of those newer Apple machines, veado should now run natively! this means better performance, less bugs, all that.
- better Linux support! we're now shipping the SDL library with the app as well as doing proper library searching, so for most distros you shouldn't actually need to install or symlink anything, and if you do need, it's a lot easier to find and install all dependencies. also, with SDL3 we now have proper Wayland support!
- new Stream Deck plugin & more websockets! we updated the official Stream Deck plugin (if it stopped working for you for a day, that was us briefly releasing a broken update <3) and therefore the websocket API to acommodate for push-to-talk. you can also visit the websocket address on your browser to change states now :]
- it's prettier! we have a proper splash screen, a quick tutorial for newcomers, you can even click on the deer in the corner to visit the website! wow!
we had more plans for this version, but it would take the time we'd rather invest in the full version. nonetheless, we hope you enjoy this update!
as always, if you do enjoy it, consider donating <3 this helps with the development of this app as well as the bigger version, as well as helps us eat and pay bills and all related horrors.
the mini 2.1 fundraiser
this release was done with the help of you guys! remember last post when we mentioned we would be doing a fundraiser stream? well, here's the results:
- we raised $800!! it's a lot more than we expected, and we couldn't be more grateful. we took $100 of that to donate to the Gaza e-sims project, as the last stretch goal we reached was at $700.
- our goal was $100, so we could release mini 2.1 on the macOS. we did it! we now have a fancy cloud mac which we can use to build the app.
- the push-to-talk feature was a stretch goal! during the stream we had a veadotube live setup with push-to-talk nodes, and we decided to offer this to veadotube mini users as well.
- we also reached the 32-bit Windows stretch goal, but then failed to actually add support for it </3 something with the technologies we're using didn't quite work for 32-bit. this means we'll be skipping that and doing the $900 stretch goal instead, which was Wiimote support for the full version ASHDFHA
- our other stretch goals were more personal goals like affording to touch grass more often and getting to go back to my weekly streams (remember wednesdeers? which i used to do before my puter blew up? they're coming back i promise)
all in all: thank you so so much for the support! this helped us immensely.
the anniversary
oh yeah, celebrating the 4th anniversary of veadotube as a project! we've been doing this for a while now, already more time than i spent in college... well let's celebrate with the stats:
- right now we're at 1.7 million downloads and 3 million views... which are numbers i cannot start to quantify in my head.
- 🏆 the award for most popular platform is... an entire 91.4% of Windows users! with macOS at 5.8% and Linux at 2.8%. which makes the whole thing about adding macOS support again sound kinda funny actually
- 🏆 the award for biggest user issue this year was... not knowing where to upload images! it's in the state editor in the right side, not in the load avatar button. hopefully the new tutorial intro makes this less confusing?
- 🏆 the award for most respectfully requested feature is... a second slider for screaming! we're not adding it to mini because that would require increasing the capacity for more images per state and i think we have enough for an app called mini. (you can already do that in veadotube live though!)
- 🏆 the award for most disrespectfully requested feature is... a mobile version! i know we mentioned looking into it in the future, but why do people act so entitled about every program having a mobile port? not everything has to be on mobile, get a computer!
- 🏆 the award for most deer is... TUBE THE DEER!!!! as always. also we made a vgen page for them did you see that
the future
it's early december so this will count as the monthly devlog ok? ok. the plan now is to continue focusing on the full version :] we're gonna pick up where we left, which was starting development on veadotube editor, the part of the full version where you build avatars, as we're pretty much almost done with the basics of veadotube live, the part of the full version where you control and stream avatars.
as always, veadotube the full is available in very early access if you're part of veadotube labs :] we'll be opening new slots for it soon, when it happens we'll be posting the form here again!
if you cannot wait, you can also access it through the olmewe early access ko-fi, which functions as a backdoor to veadotube labs, which lets you access veadotube the full version!
also worth pointing out, the very kind people in veadotube labs right now helped test mini 2.1 a month before release. everyone say "thank you the very kind people in veadotube labs right now" (no genuinely thank you so much for testing this y'all)
that's it! i'm gonna go get some lunch now. bye