Creating and using a Discord app

How to create a Discord app

To get an app id so you can use CustomRPC with a custom app id you need to make a Discord app. The following steps will show you how to to so and will show you how to add assets for large and small images.

Creating your app

1. Go to: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
2. Click on New App
   2.1. You'll see something like this:
3. Give the app a name, This will be shown as the "playing game" on Discord
   3.1. So if you use "Example" as name and activate CustomRPC with your app id it will say "Playing Example" on Discord
4. Optionally fill in the other stuff but it's not required
5. Once you're done filling in the things you want to fill in click on Create App

Congratulations, you have now created your custom Discord app.

Adding rich presence assets

Now that we have that it's time to enable rich presence and add some assets.

1. Scroll all the way to the bottom and click on Enable Rich Presence
2. You'll see a couple new things added, we'll leave the Advanced Rich Presence Features alone since CustomRPC does not support setting these.
3. Adding a cover image
   3.1. Click on the square box, search for an image you want to use and select it.
4. Now scroll down to Rich Presence Assets
5. Select either small or large depending on which you want to add.
6. Click the square if you selected large, click the circle if you selected small and choose your image to add
7. Give it a name, pretty sure names can only be lower case and not contain any special characters except for _
8. Make sure to click Save changes!

And done! You've successfully added your assets.

Getting your app id

Now that you have your Discord app you can use its app id for more customization with CustomRPC.
You can find the app id under App Details at the very top.

Using your Discord app with CustomRPC

1. Open CustomRPC, I'm assuming you've already downloaded it.
2. Fill in the details and state text boxes (these are always required)
3. Now copy the app id you got in Getting your app id and paste it in the app id text box.
4. If you added some assets you can use them by filling it their names in the corresponding text box
   4.1. So if I have a small image asset with the name small_logo i'd fill in the small image name text box with small_logo
5. Optionally you can fill in the large and small image text text boxes, if someone hovers over the image it will be shown.
6. Click on Update Rich Presence

And voilà your rich presence should now be updated using your Discord app.

I often use this whenever I'm playing a game not on pc, for example:

Will be shown as: