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title: 'How To Mouse Control Any VTuber model in VTube Studio (No Webcam/No Iphone/Ipad)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqxv_FIHPRU'
video_id: 'aqxv_FIHPRU'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 537
---

# How To Mouse Control Any VTuber model in VTube Studio (No Webcam/No Iphone/Ipad)

> Source: [How To Mouse Control Any VTuber model in VTube Studio (No Webcam/No Iphone/Ipad)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqxv_FIHPRU)

## Summary

This tutorial demonstrates how to control any VTuber model in VTube Studio using only a mouse, without a webcam or iPhone/iPad. The creator shows how to set up mouse tracking for head movement, body rotation, eye movement, and mouth animation, and also explains how to create custom expressions and hotkeys.

### Key Points

- **Accessing Mouse Input Settings** [0:44] — In VTube Studio, on the right side, there is an option for mouse input range. You can edit it to make the face follow the mouse.
- **Setting Face Angle X to Mouse Position X** [1:11] — Select face angle X, write 'Mouse', then change to position X. Moving the mouse left/right moves the face left/right.
- **Setting Head Angle Y to Mouse Position Y** [1:27] — Set head angle Y to Mouse position Y so the head looks up and down with mouse movement.
- **Setting Angle Z to Mouse Position Y** [1:48] — Set angle Z to Mouse position Y for head tilt. Adjust smoothness slider to control speed.
- **Body Rotation Z to Mouse Position X** [2:29] — Set body rotation Z to Mouse position X so the body moves with the mouse. Adjust smoothing as needed.
- **Mouth Open with Voice Volume** [2:54] — Select mouth open plus volume or voice volume plus mouth open so the mouth moves when speaking.
- **Mouth Smile to Mouse Position Y** [3:20] — Set mouth smile or mouth form to Mouse position Y to add expressiveness: moving up makes the model smile, down frowns.
- **Auto Blinking** [3:47] — Select auto blinking for the eyes.
- **Eye Movement to Mouse Position** [4:00] — Set eye X to Mouse position X (invert with -1 if needed) and eye Y to Mouse position Y so eyes follow the mouse.
- **Brow Movement** [4:29] — Set brow to Mouse position Y so one brow goes up with mouse movement.
- **Creating Custom Expressions** [4:41] — Go to expression editor, create new expression (e.g., eyes looking right), assign a hotkey, and set fade time.
- **Final Adjustments and Personal Preference** [6:48] — Adjust sensitivity and smoothing to personal preference. The rest is up to the user.

### Conclusion

By following these steps, you can control any VTuber model in VTube Studio using only a mouse, making it ideal for art streams or gaming without a webcam. The tutorial emphasizes that the technique works with any model and encourages viewers to experiment with settings.

## Transcript

so people have been wondering about this
um where you're controlling a mouse and
the model moves to it and you can see
the kind of the face is detecting my my
microphone there's no webcaming
connected to this at all like you could
see um and I could use hot Keys like you
know I be
like or so I'm going to show you how to
do that real quick um first things first
uh this works for literally every model
you don't need like any fancy model to
do this with um and just to prove my
point
uh we're going to go do this with uh the
basic live Tod vtuber model now know
that the app is vtube studio so you do
need to do this in vtube studio
um so yeah right over here you're going
to see there's this option on the right
of the mouse input range let me move
myself so you can see it a bit
better there we go so yeah in vtube
studio already there is a feature to
detect your mouse input and you can go
edit this however you see fit um so
simply if you want to make the face
follow the mouse you can go in the
settings here and just make sure you're
selected here and see stuff where it's
like face angle X you just write Mouse
and then you can change it to position X
and you'll see when I move the mouse
left and right it'll move the face left
and
right same thing for
here so Mouse angle
y or head it excuse me head angle y you
can set it to Mouse position Y and like
so you'll see now the head can look up
and down see that which works perfectly
fine next for angle Zed I like to set
angle Zed to Mouse position
Y and you'll see It'll move that but as
you can see it's a bit quick so you can
click the see this little slider with
smoothness you can adjust this and and
just adjust it whatever you'd like so I
like to make it slow so it kind of you
know like pops up like that maybe it's
looking up a bit too much so you can
also change the settings right over here
so like let's say I want it to go up a
bit less I'm going to change it to minus
two so now um it's going to go up but
very barely which gives it this kind of
like look that the head's tilting up and
it adds like a nice little contrast of
believability for body rotation I
believe this is body rotation Zed right
yep for body rotation Zed uh I like to
do mouse position X and now the body
will move uh with the mouse and it's
moving a bit much so again adjust the
smoothing right and now you'll see it
looks like the body is moving with the
mouse right the other thing we're going
to do is we're going
to go to the mouth open so how do you
make it check your voice simply select
mouth open plus volume or voice Volume
Plus mouth open select that and now
you'll notice whenever I speak it'll
move with this
um it's not very often I use an anime
girl model very rare um but yeah so
that's how you do it like that now we
have the mouse smile the other thing I
personally like to do is I like to set
um just for kind of personality I like
setting Mouse or mouth smile or mouth
form to Mouse position y so if I move
the thing up the model smiles and I move
it down it frowns that way we can add a
bit of expressiveness you'll you'll see
it more in my models uh this one is just
the
mouth oh actually one thing before we
stop uh for blinking just select auto
blinking there you
go perfect we have the eyes we have to
move the eyes around so let's go do that
we're going to go
move there we go so iix set that to
Mouse position X boom and it's going the
opposite way so we're going to go set
that to minus one and now the eyes will
move with the face same with the ey y
set that to Mouse position y boom and
there you go forgive me if I'm moving a
bit too fast um do go back in the video
if it's you know a bit too quick but it
pretty much it's all that stuff browse
you can also do the same thing I'll do
mouse position Y and then one brow will
go up as you can see now there might be
stuff where you don't like the
expression you know maybe you want the
the face to do a certain something you
can go inside here and select the
expression editor and click create new
expression and here we have the new
expressions and we're going to say what
if what if I want the eyes to look right
right like you know we're not always
going to want our model to look so let's
say you know eyes looking right now we
can create a button we're going to says
button I right I'm going to press
save and what we can do now here at the
bottom is we can click the
expression we can do eyes what an I
right and I'll make a button let's do J
and we'll do stop one keys let go and
set the fade for seconds .25 and now the
model's looking around but now we can
make get the mod model oh
whoops did I save
properly no I'm using the wrong button
there we go so yeah I could press it and
then you know now the model is looking
left we could do this you know same
thing for let's say blinking right
closing your
eyes so let's
say i
l i right and was let's do close eyes
there we go so now we have the button
for close eyes I like to set this the
eyes closing to
control it just I don't know why that
feels best for me but you know um set to
whatever feels natural to you the only
reason I'm using this model as an
example is this model is already
pre-installed live 2D so you know you
can you can use this as a as a quick
little demo thing there we go so yeah
you know I can be singing like la la la
or you know do whatever joke I want um
and yeah I think the body is leaning a
bit too far to the
right okay now is the part of the video
where I'm just going to go ramble I'm so
sorry I'm so sorry yeah so this
is um the rest is just up to your
personal preference by now you should
know how things are done and how you
know you can kind of like do all the
things for your model uh I think this is
great for for art streams but maybe some
video games if you use a controller I
don't
know i' I'd rather just like make the
vtuber toggle set to your controller
hotkeys instead of your mouse hotkeys
which there are plugins for that I
haven't used it personally but I know it
exists where is oh it's all the way to
the top here you go Mouse position Zed
uh yeah so it's moving a bit too far to
the right so I'm going to say two and -2
and now that's just going to make it you
know less sensitive and there you go
already like this is the this is the
model and it's now you know tracking the
mouse and this is not a model that was
designed for Mouse tracking and you can
do this with any kinds of model I'll
show you my model this is my model and
this is the same kind of deal happening
so here we go like this is just the
Alpine model that I'm pretty sure my
community is pretty familiar with
and it does it it does its job right
right it does the
job of course the mouth tracking I think
the thing I'm not a big fan of is the
mouth tracking you know it's so obvious
that it's like not accurate but like hey
you know what it's better than like
setting up all the pain for everything
so yeah or yeah it's hard to control I
hope this video helps you out do
consider if you do like me making more
of these tutorials on how I do things do
you consider donating me on Kofi and
writing the message please make more
tutorials on the Kofi because if you do
that I'll see it and it supports me um I
I saved saying that for the end I hate
tutorials that that say it all in the
beginning you should know by now you
should know by now how it's done um if
you skipped to the end hoping that the
tutorial will start uh you missed it it
was at at the beginning of the video all
right thank you hope this helps out good
luck
guys