A lot of assets can be set up to load their information from a website.
This makes it way easier to update prompts for games etc, as you dont have to upload a new version of the world to add / edit / remove new lines from the game.

UPDATE: Github gist seems to shadowban accounts that dont have any code uploaded to them and pastebin has a language filter that means some files wont work if they have explicit language.

My goto recommendation is to use dropbox.

Howto for dropbox:
- Upload your file to dropbox
- Get your file share link that will look something like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zhhgoifa3yhug9ii0olfn/SpinTheWheelPrompts.txt?rlkey=ty7okgvf6pshbw8svpvdiygmj&st=xwyu37fa&dl=0

- replace the www with dl and remove the &dl=0 from the end so it looks like this

https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zhhgoifa3yhug9ii0olfn/SpinTheWheelPrompts.txt?rlkey=ty7okgvf6pshbw8svpvdiygmj&st=xwyu37fa

That link will now work directly in vrc to load in assets that require a link to a file (this works with images, txt files, videos in video players etc)

Two good sites for this are Pastebin or Github Gist.
How to do this with Github Gist:
- Make an account for github / gist https://gist.github.com/

- Go to this page https://gist.github.com/ Give it a description, filename with .txt on the end, and then the main box will be the contents of the file

- Once you have the file (EG https://gist.github.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e) you'll see a "**Raw**" button on the top right of the box for it, if you click that you'll get a webpage with just the file.

- Copy the URL for this page and remove everything after the 'raw' in the url

EG :

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e/raw/a07cbe19a871c2ba91f7c4e93034f6fb4696ad8e/SpinTheWheelPrompts

Becomes

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e/raw/

Put that final url into the URL box on the prefab and your good to go.

1 comment