How to modify an existing world and host it online

You will first need a world to modify. So click this link #V-ChatLobby. Or open V-Chat manually and join the msvchatsvr.webredirect.org server.

Open up the room list and find a room that interests you. When you enter that room wait for it to download. When you find one disconnect from the server and set it as your homespace by clicking "Room>Set Homespace..."

Navigate to your V-Chat Homespace folder (c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft V-Chat\Worlds\Homespace) and begin modifying! (a popular free image editing software is GIMP) You can see your changes at anytime by opening up V-Chat (stay offline this is your homespace). You will not see changes with V-Chat open you must close it, make a change, and then reopen it.

You will need web space to upload the files you modified, if you wish for people on V-Chat to see and download. If you do not have any web space, you can search "free webspace" and find one that suits your needs.

Once you have your web page you can start uploading your world. Below is the folder structure needed on your website.

FOLDER STRUCTURE

"www.example.com/vchat/worlds/worldname/avatars/

"www.example.com/vchat/worlds/worldname/data/

"www.example.com/vchat/worlds/worldname/images/

"www.example.com/vchat/worlds/worldname/sounds/

"www.example.com/vchat/worlds/worldname/world.adf

• This is where you put avatars, which can only be used, within the room.
• Those avatars will automatically show in the folder 'Room Avatars' in avatar selection menu.
• NOTE: you cannot use private avatars or *.vwp files.

• about.txt = Text to be displayed in V-Chat, under 'About Microsoft V-Chat'.
• world.wdb = A 3D Studio MAX file which has been changed by Microsoft.
• world.pal = RIFF Pal data.
• hotlinks.txt = This file contains the data for portals and URLs.

  Some rooms have interactable portals you can either walk into or click on, as well as interactable links to websites. These are defined in the "hotlinks.txt" file.

  Portals are defined like this (I am unsure of the numbers following "ROOM DESCRIPTION"'s effect)

  "NAME",VCHAT,IRC SERVER,#ROOMNAME,"ROOM DESCRIPTION",?,?,?,10000

  "portal01",VCHAT,msvchatsvr.webredirect.org,#V-ChatLobby,"Portal to the V-Chat Lobby",0,1,1,10000

  URLS are defined like this

  "NAME",URL,URL LINK,"URL DESCRIPTION"

  "url02",URL,http://www.microsoft.com/ie,"Shortcut to the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Page"

NOTE: Depending on which room you chose to modify the number of images varies greatly from room to room. When you modify an image it has to be the same dimensions as the image you are replacing. V-Chat uses (RGB 0,255,0) as a transparent color, so if you want to make an image invisible just paint it all green.

• collide.wav = plays when hit wall/floor.
• enter.wav = plays when someone enters the channel.
• exit.wav = plays when someone leaves the channel.
• song.mid = Loops (in my experience it does not work.)
• song.wav = Loops, often its background music.
• song2.wav = Loops, some rooms have two looping sounds.
• portal.wav = plays when someone clicks into a portal.
• sound.htm = Contains information about how sounds should be played

NOTE:sound.htm is required for rooms to have sound.

Finally when you have a room on an IRC server the topic needs to be set

For example: v:{-a http://msvchat.github.io/vchat/worlds/paradiseisland/world.adf}

EXAMPLE OF A WORLD.ADF FILE