So Vtube Studio has been out on Steam with webcam support for about a
month now and its popularity, only seems to be increasing as the
number one Live2d modeling app with that comes the question, what
is it?
And how do I use it?
Vtube studio is a program that uses your voice and either webcam or
phone to animate a live2d
model, most commonly used by vtubers.
Today I'm going to walk you through a surface-level introduction on
how to use the program with some of the base models it comes with.
We're going to start with how to load a model.
All you need to do is click on the icon in the top left-hand Corner,
which will bring up a list of all the models that are currently
registered.
In the program, you simply click on one, wait, a few seconds and
Ta-da
It's a loaded up.
To import your own model.
You will need to find the Vtube studio folder which if you are using
it. Through Steam can be found alongside any of your other game files.
Next to me to find the Live2d models folder to drop your model
file in there.
You can find that by going into the V2 Studio data folder, then into the
streaming assets folder and then finally, you need to open up the
live2d. models folder from here, you can simply drag and drop your model files
in.
And the next time you want to be Vtube Studio, you'll be able to
select your own model and begin using it.
To move your model around.
You simply hold either left or right click and you can scale it by
using the mouse scroll wheel to make you the smaller or larger.
Now that we've imported our model it's time to make it move, this can
be done using either a phone or webcam.
If you'd like to know which device bring the best results, you can
check out my video about the differences between them, which will be
linked in the part above and the video description down below.
We're going to start with a webcam to do this.
You will need to open settings and then click on the camera icon.
First, you'll need to choose a camera that is already connected to
your computer by clicking on choose camera.
For this demonstration.
I'll be using a Logitech Brio now that you selected your camera.
It's time to choose your resolution.
I would not recommend anything higher than 1920 by 1080 and in fact
you can get away with 1280 x 720 for most computers with minimal loss
and performance.
Next to select your frame rate.
Higher is always better.
But if you find that Vtube Studio is a significant drain on your
computer,
You can get away with lower FPS, anything below 30 might be a little
choppy.
Finally you choose your color format.
I have not seen a significant difference between these and most
webcams always seem to have one format to begin with.
It's now time to select your tracking quality level 5 is the highest,
but takes the most Computer Resources while level one is the worst but
takes the least.
Use whatever works best for your system.
Now you simply click Camera on.
And after a brief delay you should see an animated face that moves in
time with your avatar if you, close out your settings and everything
still moving.
Congratulations, you did it.
You have a working Avatar that's moving with your webcam.
If you're going to be using your phone, as your camera, you're going
to have to download the app and have it.
Open on both your phone and PC.
Once you have them both open, you're going to have to open up your
settings and go to the connection settings.
From here you will want to copy, both your port and your IP which you
can find by clicking on show IP list.
I will blur mine for the sake of safety, but you're going to want
your ipv4 web address but you'll usually be 10.
0.
Something from here, you open up settings on your phone and scroll
down to the stream to PC setting or you will have the option of
putting in the IP from your computer, and the port number before
turning on connect to PC and activating streaming mode to reduce the
usage of your phone's battery.
Once that's done, click on start server, and if you did everything
correctly, your model should start to animate.
Please don't try to have your webcam tracking and your phone tracking
on at the same time.
This is unrelated to the Vtube Studio, but if you're looking for a
great phone holder for a desk, I recommend this one.
I picked up on Amazon, it's the one I personal use and I love it.
You can change the background by clicking on this big green button
over here.
However, if you have your own that you would like to import, you can
add it similar to how we added our model.
But instead of going to the life, 2D model folder, we're just going to
go to the background folder.
Instead, please keep in mind that anytime you add an asset to be cheap
Studio, you will need to re-launch the program before it will show up
Now that your model and background are ready.
It's time to use my favorite part of Vtube, Studio items are
pictures and gifs that you can attach to your character to really
enhance the scene for your viewers to access items.
You're going to click on the small green circle with a star in it.
This will bring up a list of all the items that come with Vtube studio
and just like backgrounds and models, you can add more to add an item
to your scene, simply select it and I will bring up the item settings
menu. The first thing you'll notice is this item order to put the simply an
item on a higher order number will show on
Top of everything below it.
Your model is always number 0.
So, if you want to put a blanket on top of them, you put the number
one or higher.
And if you wanted to put a chair behind them, you put it, it -1 or
lower some of the items are animated.
And you can tell glitter animation speed right here.
You can also choose whether you want to pin the item to your Live2d, you
did. Which means that if you place it on your character, when your
character move, the item will move with it.
And if you're feeling just a little silly, you can turn it into a
sensor bar as well.
For this demonstration, I'm going to pin this to my live2D model.
Once this item is on the scene, you can scale it in a way similar to
how you scale your model.
But your cursor must be over the item or else.
It will scale your model instead.
Now because I picked pin to live2D model, when I drag the item on top
of myself.
When I move, it moves with me.
If you double-click on the item, it will lock itself to your model.
and will now scale with it.
This only works with items that have been pinned to your model, not
with objects that you put in the background double-clicking.
Those just lock them in place and makes it so they can't change size.
If you no longer want them to be on screan that you have pinned in
place. You can click on the smaller yellow circle which will unlock all of
your items from there.
You can click and drag them to the bottom right corner for a small.
Trash can will appear and when you let go, it disappeared off your
scene.
To add any custom items.
You will go to the items folder under streaming assets, and add the
PNG there.
The larger yellow circle lock the position of your model, but let's it
freely animate.
So that you don't actually move it out of a desirable position.
The final featuring going to go over is the selfie cam, which is the
smaller pink circle in the top left-hand corner.
This allows you to take a selfie and determine whether or not you want
the background to show up.
This could be very useful for taking thumbnails or working on other
Photoshop projects.
I know there are many settings that I did.
Not go over such a setting custom Expressions.
That the purpose of this video was to give you a very basic guide into
getting started with the program.
I hope this summer you found this helpful and if you have any
questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below and
let me know what else you'd like you to talk about.
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Thank you for watching and I'll see you all in the next video.