whywolfie / jokerosc

A python program that sends a one liner jokes read from file to your chat box in VRChat

JokerOSC

A python program that sends a one liner jokes read from file to your chat box in VRChat.

Installation

Enable OSC in VRChat

OSC may not enabled in VRChat by default. In order to enable VRChat to listen for the chatbox messages, follow these steps:

1. Open the Action Menu / radial menu by holding the menu button in one of your hands.
2. Select Options by pointing your joystick at it and clicking trigger.
3. Select the Enable OSC toggle.
4. Restart VRChat.

Use latest release

Run JokerOSC without python by downloading the latest release.
Make sure to download both JokerOSC.exe and jokes.txt. Store them in the same location.
You can find the latest release here

Running the application with python

You need python installed to run the JokerOSC this way.
It can be downloaded at their offical website.

JokerOSC uses Python-osc by attwad to send the message.
It can be downloaded using pip, run pip install python-osc in your windows command promt.

Download this repository as a zip file and extract it somewhere.

Usage

Start the program by clicking the start.bat. A command promt will appear and will start logging that it's sending jokes.

C:\Users\Jone\Desktop\joker\/joker.py --timer-seconds 180 --input-file jokes.txt
Funny joke: Don’t you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.

Sent, wating 180 seconds

The time in between the jokes can be adjusted by changing the --timer-seconds 180 flag in the start.bat file to a different number.