Make your first reaction
Start an event from a recipe, save it, and test it without going live
The quickest way to a working reaction is a recipe: a ready-made event that opens in the editor already filled in. Here you'll make a Rose thank-you and hear it work before you ever go live.
An event is a trigger, like a gift or a follow, and the action steps that run when it fires. The Rose thank-you recipe has one step, a spoken line, so it works without VTube Studio, OBS or anything else to set up.
Start from a recipe
Open the gallery
Click Events in the dock, then Recipes. If you have no events yet, the list offers Browse recipes instead.
Find the Rose thank-you
Click the Gifts category, or type "rose" in Search recipes. Each card says what happens and which steps it runs.
Pick it
Click Rose thank-you. The event editor opens with the trigger set to a
Rose and one Speech step that says {name}, thank you for the rose! in your
app language. {name} becomes the viewer's name when it runs.
Save it
Change anything you like, then click Add Mapping. Until you do, nothing is saved. The event appears in your list, switched on.
Some cards show Needs setup. They still work as a starting point, but ask you to pick something first, like a sound or a VTube Studio hotkey. The editor lists what is missing before you save. Recipes covers all 23.
Test it without going live
The Dashboard has a pretend viewer who can send gifts. A gift sent this way takes the same path a real one does, so it checks the whole event: the trigger, its rules and its steps.
Open the testing tools
Click Dashboard in the dock and find the Testing tools card. Click its title to open it if it is closed.
Send a Rose
The simulator starts with TestUser sending a Rose, so click Send gift.
Listen
Vfinity says "TestUser, thank you for the rose!" in its text-to-speech voice. Change Username in the simulator to hear another name.
Speech from an event plays even while reading chat aloud is switched off. You asked for that line by building the step, so it isn't held back.
Run it straight from the list
To hear an event's steps without sending a gift, click the play button on its row in the Events list. It runs the event now, as a test, and skips its rate limit. You can also right-click the row and choose Test it now.
A pretend gift that has to match the trigger, the same way a viewer's would. Use it to check the event fires for the right gift.
Runs the steps straight away, as if the trigger had fired. Use it to check what the event does.
If nothing happens, check the title bar for Paused. While triggers are paused, events wait until you resume; click Paused to resume. Troubleshooting has more to check.