png tubers rejoice we have another new offering given to us by the gods of free programs
veadotube mini my new favorite thing with its hot keys expressions save states this little
lightweight program has quickly become my number one recommendation for pngs and i don't see that
changing anytime soon unlike discord reactive images where you only have the option of a
talking or non-talking image with a small bounce effect this program has so many options it's
truly amazing let's just jump right into it first you'll need to download the program link is in the
description simply unpack the zip file and boot up the program once it's loaded you might notice
there's no menu screens for this app everything you need is right here and the best part when your
cursor isn't on the window the menu disappears such a small detail but extremely welcome we're
going to start with the left side of the screen up in the top left hand corner is your microphone
volume sensitivity this bar controls when the program changes your closed mouth image to your
open mouth image you can also see where your microphone volume sits normally while speaking
so you can adjust this bar to avoid activating it if you have any background noise like an air
conditioner the bar sitting next to it controls how fast you swap back from your open mouth
image or your talking image to your closed mouth image or your non-talking image if you set this
bar to the highest it swap backs immediately and if you set it to the lowest it takes a few seconds
fine tuning this to fit your vocal cadence correctly is a super nice touch that i
haven't seen any other applications do between those two bars is the microphone device button
this lets you change what microphone the app is using nice and simple ui below that is the
background color and there are currently four to choose from green blue pink and transparent but
we'll get into that a little bit later when we talk about how to use it with obs and streamlabs
we'll also be saving the open and save buttons for the end trust me it'll be worth the wait now it's
time to dive into what makes this app truly amazing in the top middle of the screen are
four buttons closed mouth image is which image is used when there is no microphone activity detected
open mouth image you guessed it is what shows when your microphone is active the closed mouth
blinking image and the open mouth blinking image occasionally activate during those
states for example if i added a closed mouth blinking image and then proceeded not to talk
you will see it swap to that image for a frame every couple seconds the same happens if i
continue to talk without giving the microphone a chance to go inactive you will see it swap to
the blinking image for a frame every few seconds this can really add some life to your png random
blinking while talking just makes it feel so much more alive and we haven't even gotten to the
best part of all of this you can have different animations for your closed mouth and open mouth
images there are seven to choose from with the first being no animation we then have some vibing
which is just some minor back and forth movement shaking which gives a small shake shaking more
which makes the movement quite a bit faster bouncy which just makes it hop excited is bouncy but
moving to the left and right and finally nervous is excited but with faster and more movement the
settings are the same for both open and closed mouth and you can mix and match at your leisure
we also have the mouth transition button which can give you that iconic discord reactive image bounce
when you change from non-speaking to speaking if that's something you want now we're moving into
states i'll admit i wasn't fully convinced this program was anything new or interesting until
i saw this this is a literal game changer and i will shout from the rooftops about how any png
duper should use this program you can make custom states with new pictures and animations for super
easy swapping and this opens up a huge realm of possibilities here's how it works when the program
first loads you will only have one state to make a new one simply change the images and animations
and click create state now you have a set of images that you can swap between whenever you
want this is extremely useful for people who have multiple expressions for pngs and want to convey
different emotional tones easily you can also assign hotkeys to these states by clicking on the
hotkey button while that state is active and this program accepts inputs from a keyboard midi mouse
or x input which means that it's compatible with things like the stream deck you can also decide
if the hotkey will swap to the new state or only stay swapped for as long as the button is pressed
this is such a great feature because it makes swapping to new faces for bits so easy and you
don't have to worry about swapping back afterwards i can't rave about this enough this puts pngs on
the same level as live 2d with expressions there's just so many options and combinations that you can
make to really give your png the feeling you want i'm probably just going to use the png's
for this video now finally the last little bit of information you need is the save vado
mini file this saves all of your current states images and animations into a ready to use file
you can open it later with the open button and everything you customized will be ready to go
this is awesome for transferring files between computers so now that you've got the app all
set up let's put it into obs you're first going to go to sources add a game source
name it whatever you want search for the vadotube mini window
and if you're using the transparency background you can enable transparency and it's good to go
if you're using one of the color backgrounds you will need to add a filter by right clicking on
the source going to filters add a key color or chroma key filter select the right color and
then you should be good to go it really is just that easy i'm super excited to see what you all
do with this program i just want to toss this here at the end please support the creator of
this program they made something truly amazing and it's worth the five bucks you can give them