allytally / ved

Ved is an external editor for VVVVVV levels!

Ved

This is the repository for Ved, an external editor for VVVVVV levels.

Downloading

You can choose to download the source version, which is a .love file, or you can also choose to download an .exe, .app, or .AppImage version (depending on your operating system).

The main place to download Ved is https://tolp.nl/ved/download. That page has the changelog (including for the upcoming version) and download links for each version.

Source

You can download the latest version from here. You'll need to download LÖVE 0.9.1+, 0.10.x or 11.x once. After that, you should be able to double-click the .love, or drag it on top of the love binary (love.exe, love.app or love).

As long as your version of LÖVE is 0.9.1 or above and wasn't released too recently, you don't really have to worry about getting a specific old version of LÖVE, even if "0.9.1 or higher" might give that impression. I try to add compatibility for new LÖVE versions soon after they're released, and if possible even earlier, without dropping compatibility for old versions.

Windows version

You can download the latest version from here. You do not need to install LÖVE, because each version comes with the required DLLs. An advantage of using the Windows version and not the source version is that you can pin Ved to the taskbar or start menu.

You must extract all files to the same folder, moving out just the .exe will not work!

Other than the typical "Windows protected your PC" (just click "More info" and then "Run anyway") if you get an error when trying to start Ved, you might need to follow the instructions for the source version. If you have an old enough system, you might need to specifically use LÖVE 0.9.1 or 0.9.2 (especially if the error is about OpenGL). If you have a 32-bit system, just use 32-bit LÖVE.

macOS version

You can download the latest version from here. You do not need to install LÖVE.

If you get "Ved cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified" - you might be used to this by now - right click (or control+click) the app, and select Open, which gives you the option to open the app. Or go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Open Anyway. If that didn't work and you're completely stuck, you might need to run sudo spctl --global-disable in a Terminal. Or sudo spctl --master-disable

Linux

Since Ved 1.10.0, you can download the latest version as an AppImage from here. You may only need to mark it executable, and then you should be able to run it directly as a binary.

You can also use the source version, see the instructions above. For Ubuntu and its flavors, you can easily get a supported version of LÖVE with sudo apt install love. Unless you use 14.04 or older. (If/When Ved drops support for LÖVE 0.9.1, 18.04's version will be too old too, but that will probably not happen very soon.)

Do not install love via Snap! Ved will be too sandboxed to access your VVVVVV levels folder. Use apt install love instead of snap install love.

Feedback

For places where you can report bugs, make feature requests or ask questions, see this page on the website.

Changelog

The official changelog can be found here.

License (BSD)

The license can be found at Source/license.txt.

Developing plugins

For more information about developing plugins, please check https://tolp.nl/ved/plugins.php.

Translating

If you'd like to translate Ved into your own language, please send me a PM on the tOLP forum, the Distractionware forum, or post a message in one of the relevant topics/board on there, or you can contact me via Discord. If you don't know where to find any of these: tOLP is here, Distractionware is here and the Discord server for VVVVVV (which has the official channel for Ved) can be found here.