I’ve been streaming a lot with VTube Studio and Streamerbot, and I’ve found that the combination of these two programs has infinitely improved my stream and life (lol). Being able to automate actions in VTube Studio with Streamerbot has made the stream as a whole better, and has made people in the community more active as they fight over hats and who can make the badger dance the hardest. I’m going to give a brief intro to setting up Streamerbot with VTube Studio so people can play with settings and come up with their own redemptions.
Connecting Streamer.bot to VTube Studio
This is a clean instance of Streamer.bot. I’ve not connected anything yet, and this is how it will look when you install it. The version I’m using for this post is 0.2.6, but the multiple versions I’ve used have all looked the same way with very minor differences, so unless there are major changes, this should be accurate.
The first thing I’m going to do is direct you to connecting Twitch, so that you can set up Streamer.bot with channel point redemptions (or in some cases, commands, bans, or timeouts). To login, you’ll want to select the Platforms tab, then the Twitch tab in that section, and finally the Accounts tab in that subsection. You’ll be presented with the option to log in with either a broadcaster or bot account (you can do both), but for our purposes, we’re just going to use the broadcaster account. Select the Login option for whichever account you’re going to add, and then we can start playing with redemptions.
Now we’re going to connect Streamer.bot to VTube Studio. Go to the Integrations tab, and then to the VTube Studio tab. Leave Address and Port as they are, check off the Auto Connect and Auto Reconnect boxes, and open up VTube Studio. Once VTube Studio is open, click Connect in Streamer.bot and then hop over to VTube Studio to give it access.
ALLOW IT.
And that’s the initial setup completed for Twitch and VTube Studio. That’s the “hard” part. Now comes the tedious part (only kinda joking).
The Hat Trick
One of my most popular features with the Badger vtuber is the hat redemption. I have a dozen hats that anyone can pick out for the badger, and all cost only 50ish channel points. It’s a simple redemption that everyone uses, and I love it. If you don’t know how to set up an item scene with a hat I can go into that later or one-on-one, but for now we’re going to assume you know how.
Go to Streamer.bot and hit the Action queue. Right click in the Actions box, and select Add. You can name it whatever and click Ok, we don’t have to worry about other settings right now.
Once you have an action (I’ve called mine police hat), you can hop over to Triggers and we’ll set up how this action will be started. Right click and choose Twitch > Channel Reward > Reward Redemption.
Once you select Reward Redemption, you can select the “Any” option that pops up, or, in our case, we’re going to select the “Create Reward.” Once you choose this option, another box will pop up. You can give it a title, change the cost (the original cost is 1 channel point), and then we’ll just hit Ok. You can further customize the reward color and if you want to limit how many times it’s on stream or if there’s a cooldown, but that’s extra that I don’t use on most redemptions.
So we’ve hit Ok, we have an action and a trigger, and now we have to actually make our model wear its hat. To do this, we need to set up a hotkey in VTube Studio first, and then trigger that hotkey with Streamer.bot.
To set up the hotkey, click the cog wheel to access settings, and then go to Hotkey Settings and Expressions. Click the + to add a new hotkey, and select “Toggle Item Scene” for the Hotkey Action, and then add your chosen Item Scene. Once you have those set, just choose a name and hop back over to Streamer.bot.
Now that we’re back in Streamer.bot, go to the Sub-Actions box and right click. You’ll go to Integrations > VTube Studio > Trigger Hotkey, and there will be a box that pops up with more options to select.
Since VTube studio is open, it will give you a couple dropdown boxes to choose your Model and Item Scene.
Select that and hit Ok, and you’re basically done! Once someone redeems the Police Hat reward in the Channel Point Redemptions option, you have a police hat! Oh. But what happens when you add another reward, and suddenly your model is wearing two hats at once?
There might be a better way, but I just made an item scene with no items called Clear Scene, and I have that trigger set up before the hat scene. So it clears the scene of items, then adds a new item. This also helps if someone accidentally redeems the same hat – because it’s triggering the hotkey, it will remove the hat if the same hat is redeemed. So by clearing the scene before every hat-related action, it ensures that the hat will be visible and not removed.
And just like that, your descent into VTuber hat hell has begun. I’ll make a few more guides later for additional redemption ideas that I currently use (my current longest redeem has 32 sub-actions, help me I cannot stop myself), but I felt like getting an intro to the initial Streamer.bot setup and one simple redeem would be a good start for anyone curious about the program and/or the process.
