söndag 20 mars 2011

How to Create a Character/Readme file and picture for your UTAU

Hello, this is a tutorial in how to create a readme and character and add a picture file for your UTAU.

This is a character file - it shows when you select a UTAU or click the icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
To create a characterfile, we'll start off with this.
PIC.bmp = this is where the picture/drawing will be
CHARACTER.TXT = the name of your UTAU + act?
README.TXT = information - this is not necessary, but you can write anything you want here :3


Take a drawing(or draw a new one) and make it 100x100 pixels - the save it as a .bmp (it WILL NOT WORK IF THE SIZE AND FILE TYPE ISN'T RIGHT), when you're done, name it whatever you want (like pic.bmp) and add it to your UTAU's folder.


Create two .txt documents - one character.txt and one readme.txt, add them to your UTAU's folder as well.

Open the character.txt and copy this information:
name= the name of your UTAU
sample=
author= your name or your alias on the internet
image= the pic.bmp we created (or whatever you named it)

now paste it into the character file. Close the file and SAVE IT.


Open the readme and write any information you want! :3 This is Miki's readme.txt file, for example ^^ close and save.

Open UTAU - done~!
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13 kommentarer:

  1. Anonym6 april 2012 kl. 14:38

    M-My picture file isnt showing in UTAU....can you help me? ;_;

    SvaraRadera
  2. Anonym22 april 2012 kl. 08:47

    This worked great! At least on my Mac... But now I can make a professional looking UTAU! Thank you SO much!

    SvaraRadera
  3. SlidebOx26 juni 2012 kl. 09:54

    Min bild vill inte visas. Den är i hans fil, 100x100 pixlar och i bmp men den gömmer sig fortfarande >_<

    SvaraRadera
  4. Unknown21 november 2013 kl. 18:24

    My picture isn't showing :(

    SvaraRadera
  5. Anonym12 april 2014 kl. 12:28

    Wtf with the picture, seriously ^^ ...... I try other ways to type the root of the image on "character.txt", but it won't work at all...

    SvaraRadera
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    1. Mitsuhisa29 april 2014 kl. 07:30

      Take a drawing(or draw a new one) and make it 100x100 pixels - the save it as a .bmp (it WILL NOT WORK IF THE SIZE AND FILE TYPE ISN'T RIGHT)

      Radera
  6. Unknown7 februari 2016 kl. 11:05

    All the image properties were right but it still wouldn't work!!

    SvaraRadera
  7. Anonym17 maj 2016 kl. 18:13

    hi im having the same problem as everyone else with the pic, ive checked the files of an utau that isnt mine that works and its the right dimensions, do you know how to fix it?

    SvaraRadera
  8. Anonym23 juni 2016 kl. 15:35

    i have the same problem!!!! i made a pic into a bpm and its 100x100p, and i used the character.txt but it still wont load when i reload utau!!!! my readme.txt shows up, but it stil says no image

    SvaraRadera
  9. Anonym27 december 2017 kl. 11:16

    (whisper)
    I found a solution for my bmp problem. It seems UTAU is very picky about filesizes. I used a bmp-file which was 100x100p and 29.4 kb, and it didn't work. I copied the picture into paint.exe and saved it again as a bmp, its size turned into 29.3 kb... and then I was able to use it in UTAU. I hope this helps somebody...
    :< *sneaks out of ancient comment section*

    SvaraRadera
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    1. Anonym17 juni 2025 kl. 10:46

      Hi everyone! I'm making an OpenUtau C+V English singular voicebank and I use VLabeler and Recstar for recording and OTOing! It's been quite a while, hasn't it??? Anyway, I'm wondering if this tutorial still works/could be applied to OpenUtau? (bro wdym ancient YOU'
      RE ancient-- /j)

      Radera
    2. Anonym28 januari 2026 kl. 12:59

      Now you're the semi ancient one /jjj
      But I've recently tried this, recorded all the files in Recstar. Zipped them and sent them to my computer, otoed them in Vllabeler, and now for some reason they won't install as a singer. Is the character.txt essential? How do I get it? Who knows. My point being is that there is some extra work to try and get the singer installed into OpenUtau. I'll update if I find a solution.

      Radera
    3. Anonym28 januari 2026 kl. 13:34

      LADS I SOLVED IT!!

      Basically in the new version of OpenUtau you need a few "extra" files for the voicebank to count as a voicebank and for it to count as a singer. I did a few different things, and any one of them might have been the catalyst so do try each of them.

      You NEED a character.txt, readme.txt, oto.ini and character.yaml file in the folder WITH the audio samples. They also need to be in the ZIPPED version of your folder with your samples. Don't unzip anything just yet, unless its for otoing.

      character.txt: just do what this tutorial says
      readme.txt: You NEED to add it to the folder, but it can be empty for now, edit it when you like
      oto.ini: edit your samples in Vlabeler, save them as an oto.ini file, then drag that file into the zipped folder
      character.yaml: when recording my JP CV voicebank this generated automatically, but for some reason it didn't here. What I did was just copy the JP one over to my zipped EN C+V folder. Heres the text I used if needed. It needs to be a .yaml file.
      text_file_encoding: shift_jis
      portrait_opacity: 0.67
      portrait_height: 0

      Then I went ahead and clicked install singer, made the text encoding UTF-8 and made the phonemizer the Cadlaxa EN C + V one that comes with OpenUtau. Hope this helps someone like ten years down the line lmao

      Radera

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