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How to Setup

s4300 edited this page Nov 9, 2021 · 1 revision

How to setup on Windows

Step 1) Click here and select "Discord-RPC-Generator-Windows.zip"
Step 2) Extract it anywhere.
Step 3) Click here to create a new Discord application. The name of it is what you will be "playing".
Step 4) Copy the client id.
Step 5) Inside the "Discord-RPC-Generator-Windows" folder, edit the "clientid.txt" file and paste in your client id from Discord.
Step 6) Now, edit the "details.txt" file and put in what details are about your RP.
Step 7) To edit your RP state, edit "state.txt".
Step 8) Now execute "DiscordRPC.exe" or whatever .exe file is in that folder. (you need Discord running, and not in the browser!)

How to setup on Mac or Linux

Step 1) Click here and select "Source code (.zip)".
Step 2) Extract it anywhere.
Step 3) Click here to create a new Discord application. The name of it is what you will be "playing".
Step 4) Copy the client id.
Step 5) Inside the "Discord-RPC-Generator" folder, edit the "clientid.txt" file and paste in your client id from Discord.
Step 6) Now, edit the "details.txt" file and put in what details are about your RP.
Step 7) To edit your RP state, edit "state.txt".
Step 8) For the first time, you need to run "installpackages.py" (you will need pip). Step 9) Now execute "main.py" in that folder (you need Discord running, and not in the browser!)

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