🛠️Setting Up

RTFM

If you experience any errors, check out FAQ.

Before setting up, make sure you have a standalone Discord client (not in browser) and have enabled sharing your activity in Discord settings:

If sharing with servers was disabled, don't forget to choose what servers you want to share your activity in under "My Servers".

Setup process

• Press the Connect button to test the connection. Your status in Discord should now say "Playing CustomRP". In case of errors, check FAQ. You can optionally disconnect afterwards.

  • The status will not show if you're in invisible mode.

  • If you have a custom status set (the one with emoji), it will be prioritized over your CustomRP one. CustomRP status will be seen in the profile popup though.

• Now you can fill the fields (everything except Type and Display is optional):

  • ID: Not needed unless you want to upload images as assets to Developer portal (see Advanced setup).

    • This field can only be changed when you're not connected!

  • Type: The type of the presence.

    • Using any type other than Playing disables the Party count. Competing type also disables timestamps.

  • Display: Controls which field is displayed in your status text in the members list.

  • Name: Name of the activity.

    • Defaults to CustomRP if no ID is set, or to the name you've given to your application on the portal.

  • Details: First line in the presence under the app name.

    • URL: A link that will open when user clicks on Details text.

  • State: Second line in the presence. Will be first if Details is empty.

    • URL: A link that will open when user clicks on State text.

  • Party: Shows up as (X of Y) after State line.

  • Timestamp: A timer that counts from and/or to a specific timestamp. Displayed below Details and State as (hh:)mm:ss.

    • Setting both start and end timestamps in the Listening or Watching presence type will show a progress bar.

  • Big and small images: Images that are shown on the left side of the presence. If both are present, small image is in the bottom right corner of the big one. If only small one is present, it will show up like a big image, but will be circular instead of a rounded rectangle.

    • Key: If your image is already on the internet, put the direct link (usually done by right clicking the image and choosing something like "Copy image link") in the field. If your image is on your PC, use any image hosting and sharing website (e.g. Imgur, ImageShack, etc). It's not recommended to use images sent in Discord DMs/channels, as their links get too big too quickly and they expire in 2 weeks.

      • If after connecting you get stuck on "Updating presence...", chances are the URL you've put was too long or was not a direct URL. If you're sure it's a direct one, use a URL shortner.

    • Text: A text that appears when you hover over (or long tap on mobile) the image.

    • URL: A link that will open when user clicks on the image.

  • Buttons: ⚠ Please note, there is currently a Discord bug - you can't see your own buttons, but others will see them.

    • Text: A text displayed on the button.

    • URL: A URL that the button will open upon clicking.

• Hit Update Presence (or Connect if you disconnected before).

• Congratulations, you're wonderful!

Advanced setup

If you want to upload your image to Discord Developer portal or want to have your own application ID for other reasons, do the following:

• Open Discord Developer portal.

• Click New Application in the upper right corner.

• Choose the name for the application, it will be displayed after "Playing" in the status; hit Create.

• Copy the Application ID, disconnect in the app and paste what you copied into ID field.

• To upload your images as assets: on your application's page, navigate to Rich Presence -> Art Assets and upload at least one image under Rich Presence Assets. In CustomRP, there is a handy Upload Assets button in File menu (you can also use Ctrl+U) that will take you there if your ID field is set up properly. Use the asset name in the image's Key field.

  • Note 1: Although usually the images become usable instantly, in some cases it might take up to several hours.

  • Note 2: While you can name your asset with any name up to 999 symbols, the app will only accept names with 256 symbols max.

• If you upload an app icon (General Information page), it will be used as the large image in case it's not set in CustomRP. This also makes it impossible to have a circular big image.

I use more than one Discord client, what do I do?

If you have more than one Discord client and you wish your presence to show up on a different account from the one app chose automatically, please press Disconnect, then hold Ctrl+Shift keys on your keyboard and press Connect. A window with a number input will pop up, put a number 1, close the window, and press Connect again, without Ctrl+Shift. In case it's a wrong account again, try number 0, then 2 and so on up until 9.

Please note that if you have multiple Discord clients run on startup, pipe number assigned to each client might not be persistent from boot to boot and can change depending on which client started first. To prevent that, you can either start additional clients manually, or use Windows Task Scheduler to delay the startup of the clients.

If you have 2 accounts that you use at the same time and want for each of them to have a different presence, then follow these steps:

• Set up your first account with the instructions above.

• Grab the latest portable (.zip) version of CustomRP (either from website or GitHub releases page) and unpack it anywhere.

  • This only works with versions 1.16 and newer.

• Open Start Second Instance.bat or create a shortcut to CustomRP.exe with an argument --second-instance (or -2).

• Set up the program the same way you did your first instance.

  • Tip: If you already have a preset you would want to use with your second instance, you can edit the bat file or the shortcut to include the path to the preset. Example: CustomRP.exe -2 "C:\Some Folder\preset.crp" (quotation marks around the path are necessary if the path has spaces in it).

• Before connecting, change the pipe as described earlier and connect.

If you use 3 or more accounts at the same time, then... why? But also if enough of you will nag me, I'll add support for using more instances.

Notes

• If you don't want to set up small or large image, leave all related fields in the program blank.