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FizTheAncient — NyanChat Tutorial
Published: 2013-08-18 20:57:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 12523; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 102
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Here is the tumblr version of the tutorial which is much better than this cobbled together thing!!This is a pretty simple tutorial, I wasn't gonna cover everything. NyanChat is kind of a mix of openCanvas 1.1 and Paint Tool SAI with networking capabilities, so if you can use those, you can probably use this program with a bit of practice.
For a very basic tutorial please refer back to Nitro's Original Journal
For those that wanna get started right away and don't wanna mess too much with brushes, I suggest just installing my Custom Brushes until you can sit down and mess with the brush settings. My brushes aren't fantastic or anything but they're okay enough for doodling!
NOTE: You'll need to know how to do port forwarding on your router, or otherwise use hamachi to host a session.
Thanks to Nitro for unearthing this thing and thanks to the people who've joined my sessions to allow me to play around with the program a bit.
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UPDATE: I had a few people ask me to figure out what the “NG User” button means on the server window.
It is a ban button. It won’t kick the user out of the room, but they won’t be able to use the chat. If they draw on the canvas, it shows on their side, but it won’t display on anyone’s canvas.
NG likely stands for “No-Good”.
So if you have someone trolling your nyanchat server, you ban them with the NG Button.---
UPDATE 2: “Ech” from pixiv has made their own nyanchat guide in a mix of Japanese and also English translations for some of the mojibake. They linked to me on their guides so I will link back to them as well!
Mojibake/Garbled Text Translation
Ech’s Custom Brushes.---
Downloads:
NyanChat
Fiz's Custom Brushes
Links:
NyanChat Site (JP)
NyanChat Changelog (JP)
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Comments: 34
Sadly, I can't seem to use NyanChat at all. I can't even connect to any server, not even my own. I keep getting a box that say 'socket error 1'.
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do you have any ports opened?
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I honestly have no idea. I've been told that it's most likely my firewall or router blocking. The firewall thing I understand, but how can a router block a connection?
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If its youre firewall you should be able to add nyanchat to an exceptions list.
Router blocking would likely be you have no ports forwarded to allow an external connection to connect to you.
Heres a guide about port forwarding: www.computerhope.com/issues/ch…
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Thanks for your help! I think I''m on the verge of finally getting it to work. I added NyanChat to the exceptions list of Windows Firewall, and I think I got the port forward thing figured out. Just one more question: What ports do you use for Nyanchat? I'm entirely clueless on what ports are available and what ports are not.
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it can use anything really. sometimes ports are already being used by other programs so i try to not use a low port number. i think my current one is 50500 because we opened up the 50000 range on our router.
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Alrighty. So how do I find out which ports are open?
Sorry about all the questions by the way. I just to be exactly sure I know what I'm doing.
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the link i sent earlier should tell you how to open ports: www.computerhope.com/issues/ch…
you open a port range using your router's software and use that open port for nyanchat
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Whats socket error 7?
And what does it mean when you can't connect to yourself and you get 'Connection refused'? I turned my firewall off.
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im not sure for the socket error, probably a disconnection
connection refused, the ports you are using probably are not open. youll have to figure out how to open up certain port numbers with your router and then use those free numbers to connect to
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I just want to note that I run Nyanchat perfectly fine on a Mac by installing it into a Wineskin wrapper and running that. I host a server myself, and I've had no networking issues.
Thank you so much for this tutorial, too! You're awesome. A question, also, if you'd like to/can answer - is it possible to change the order in which I see my layers, as opposed to other peoples'? I want to paint together with a friend and when we paint, it looks to me as though I'm painting below her layers, and vice-versa to her. Thanks again!
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I'm not really sure about the layers honestly. It might have to do with the order that people connect to the server in?
I'm glad nyanchat can work fine on mac tho, thats good news
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Hey, thanks for the awesome tutorial here, just wondering if you knew a way to move/drag drawings around in NyanChat. I mean, I can rotate and zoom in and out, but dragging stuff out has eluded me greatly.
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unfortunately i dont think theres a way to drag things around. ive tried to figure it out myself since thats a tool i heavily use but there seems to be no way to do it
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A NOTE FOR MAC USERS: Nyanchat and other .exe files will NOT work in Mac without a Windows Virtual Computer like Parallels.
It's easier to just use a windows machine to use server-reliant programs like this one.
Thanks for the Tutorial Fiz! C:
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You're very welcome and thanks for the note about mac users!
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you need to explain in order to connect to the persons canvas you have to choose and select that canvas in the image tab. If you dont do this, you will stare at a white screen raging like I have for the past 2 hours. Thanks. lazy ineed.
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You're the first person that wasn't able to figure that out. You're welcome!
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When they create a cavnas how am I suppose to join? there is no canvas when I connect and when they connect. Why is non of this explained?
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Can you please explain to the both host and non host what they are suppose to use for IP. It gives IP adresses and starts off with a IP Adress that you can type. Not once in this tutorial do you explain this. What are socket error codes and why can't I log into the hosts server. IF we both copy and paste the server number + 2220:20. This tutorial is useless unless you EXPLAIN that you need HAMACHI or have your router PORT FORWARD
also why cant you draw on a canvas that the host connects to, but they can draw if they make a new canvas. My canvas name is blank I don't understand....
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I'd figure that anyone that knows how to use simple networking programs that they would know that they need either hamachi or figure out to do port forwarding
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Okay, thank you! My friend wanted to draw with me but she has a mac, is there another program like there where we can do that?
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lot better the oc, now all it needs is the ability to load premade pictures into it. <.>
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Super glad you made this tutorial. Platinum glad.
Now I can finally go tell Opencanvas to go ffffuck itself
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Wonderful help there, Fiz! This guide has really helped myself and some of my friends to get set up and enjoy the crazy fun of it all!~
but... there is something that's currently baffling us...
How do you use the swatches? I can't figure out how to set them, all I can do is "sample" the white boxes so that it replaces my active color with the white that's apparently in all the swatch boxes.
Any help on this would great!
JS
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I have absolutely no idea how to use swatches. Me and my friend tried to figure it out as well and it just eluded us. sorry :c
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