-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 0
Getting started
VNyan can be installed automatically through the Itch app. Simply open the Itch app, navigate to the VNyan page. Here, click install, select the install location, and wait for installation to be completed!
Alternatively, VNyan can be installed manually. Download the VNyan .zip folder on Itch and extract in the desired location.
If VNyan is installed through the Itch App, it can be ran by pressing the Play button in the bottom right of VNyan's Itch page. VNyan can also be launched by opening the VNyan.exe file in the install folder without opening the Itch App. Using VNyan.exe, Vnyan can also be launched in administrator mode. Opening VNyan through the Itch App requires your install be up-to-date.
When you first open VNyan, you will be greeted by a startup wizard. The startup wizard will help you configure VNyan for the first time, but can be skipped if wanted (for example if you are importing a profile from another computer). The wizard will help you set up your model, your tracking, your model's expressions, and Youtube/Twtich integration.
If you experience lag with VNyan, you can start it in GPU Priority mode. There is a cmd file VNyan_GPUPriority.cmd that you can run instead of VNyan.exe which will open using this setting. This will also run VNyan with Administrator privileges.
Alternatively, you can create a shortcut for VNyan.exe that automatically opens VNyan in GPU Priority Mode. After creating a shortcut, right-click and open Properties, then add -gpu at the end of the Target line (the top field). Make sure to also set VNyan to run with Admin privileges.
If VNyan is installed through the Itch App, to update, simply open the Itch App, navigate to the VNyan page, and press Update in the lower right corner. Make sure that the itch.io app updates VNyan into the same installation folder as the old version, rather than into a newly created folder.
To update a manual install of VNyan, download the latest version, extract the archive and copy it to your pre-existing install folder. Replace any existing files when prompted.
If items or plugins are missing after installing a new version, it is possible that you are running VNyan from a different folder than before. Try to find your previous install folder for VNyan and run VNyan.exe from there.
WARNING As VNyan is in active development, updates are not backwards compatible. Graphs may break if you try to downgrade VNyan to previous versions. In particular, if a newer version has newly implemented nodes, any graph that contains this new node will be broken along with every other graph after it. If you need to use a previous version, try removing the newer nodes in the latest version before downgrading.
VNyan saves most of its settings in your AppData LocalLow folder.
Typical path: C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\LocalLow\Suvidriel\VNyan. (Note that the AppData folder is typically hidden.)
Here you can find your main profile's loaded graphs named redeems*.json (with * being the graph number starting from 1, with the first graph being named simply redeems.json), settings named settings.json, various log files, a folder of backups for your graph and settings files, and a folder for additional profiles. Each profile itself is another folder with similar organization.
VNyan saves a backup of all your graphs and settings once per day if VNyan has been opened and your graphs or settings they have been modified. You can find these backups under C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\LocalLow\Suvidriel\VNyan\backup. Each backup file contains the date it was created in yyyymmdd format. If you lose your graphs or settings for any reason, you can check here and use the files from a previous date.
VNyan - https://suvidriel.itch.io/vnyan