Unofficial M1 macOS Launcher for Live2D Cubism Editor

This project is not affiliated with Live2D.
For personal use. Please adhere to the license terms of Live2D Cubism Editor.

JDK17. arm64-native. Metal. Graal JIT.
Fast.

This unofficial launcher improves the performance of Live2D Cubism Editor on M1 macOS.

Install dependencies

Install Live2D Cubism Editor such that the following directory exists:

/Applications/Live2D Cubism 4.2/res

Install Azul JDK17 (ARM 64-bit, with Java FX).
Get the .tar.gz distribution.

Extract zulu17.30.51-ca-fx-jdk17.0.1-macosx_aarch64.tar.gz (or whatever version you got). Rename the resulting folder zulu17.30.51-ca-fx-jdk17.0.1-macosx_aarch64 to zulu17-macosx_aarch64, such that a directory structure like the following exists:

~/Downloads/zulu17-macosx_aarch64/zulu-17.jdk/Contents/Home

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/Birch-san/arm-editor-launcher.git
cd arm-editor-launcher

Download a maven executable and the jogamp libraries; install them to your local maven registry:

./install-maven.sh
# this is an *example* filepath; update it to match the JDK17 folder you extracted
JAVA_HOME="$HOME/Downloads/zulu17-macosx_aarch64" ./install-jogl.sh

Option 1. Install & run with IntelliJ

Open this repository in IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition is fine).
Set the Project JDK to the JDK17 distribution you just downloaded.

Use the Maven toolwindow to run a root-level mvn install.

Hit "Reload All Maven projects".

Then run the "Unofficial Launcher for Live2D Cubism Editor aarch64" run configuration.

Congratulations! You are now running natively.

Option 2. Install & run from command-line

# this is an *example* filepath; update it to match the JDK17 folder you extracted
export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/Downloads/zulu17-macosx_aarch64"
MVN_HOME="${MVN_HOME:-"./mvn"}"
MVN="$MVN_HOME/bin/mvn"
"$MVN" install
./launcher.sh