Hey guys! Happy New Year!
Over the past year a few people who've watched streams I've run have asked how I do my overlays. It's something I've actually been sitting on for some time (nearly a year) and now I've finally gotten round to releasing it!
http://farpnut.net/streamcontrol/
StreamControl at it's core is basically a program that writes an XML file that gets loaded into a SWF file inside XSplit. The result is a fairly easy to manage stream and nicer visuals and animations. Here are some examples of what is possible with it.
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Now the first thing people must be asking is "isn't this exactly what the 8WAYRUN XSplit Panel Writer does?"
Yes and no. Flash allows for much greater flexiblity with how you present data to the viewer. Animations are possible and you're able to program any amount of logic into your SWFs as you want.
Using Flash of course comes with it's own set of disadvantages:
- More CPU intensive. (it's actually not much more CPU intensive than the default SWF plugins included with XSplit if at all)
- It's a good amount harder to set up as you want.
- You need to know Actionscript to do anything advanced.
On the plus side:
- Once it's set up it's much easier to manage. No more switching scenes to update your overlays.
- It's of course possible to achieve much prettier results.
- You can program logic into your SWF files so it's possible to say, hide a scoreboard if the player fields are empty. Or load a Flag with 2 character country codes as in the video above. (I plan on releasing the Flag loading scoreboard with source in the future by the way.)
Do check it out if you stream and let me know if you have any feedback. There are a bunch of example SWF files with source for you to play around with on the website.
If you like the software donations are of course appreciated at my website.
Over the past year a few people who've watched streams I've run have asked how I do my overlays. It's something I've actually been sitting on for some time (nearly a year) and now I've finally gotten round to releasing it!
http://farpnut.net/streamcontrol/
StreamControl at it's core is basically a program that writes an XML file that gets loaded into a SWF file inside XSplit. The result is a fairly easy to manage stream and nicer visuals and animations. Here are some examples of what is possible with it.
Now the first thing people must be asking is "isn't this exactly what the 8WAYRUN XSplit Panel Writer does?"
Yes and no. Flash allows for much greater flexiblity with how you present data to the viewer. Animations are possible and you're able to program any amount of logic into your SWFs as you want.
Using Flash of course comes with it's own set of disadvantages:
- More CPU intensive. (it's actually not much more CPU intensive than the default SWF plugins included with XSplit if at all)
- It's a good amount harder to set up as you want.
- You need to know Actionscript to do anything advanced.
On the plus side:
- Once it's set up it's much easier to manage. No more switching scenes to update your overlays.
- It's of course possible to achieve much prettier results.
- You can program logic into your SWF files so it's possible to say, hide a scoreboard if the player fields are empty. Or load a Flag with 2 character country codes as in the video above. (I plan on releasing the Flag loading scoreboard with source in the future by the way.)
Do check it out if you stream and let me know if you have any feedback. There are a bunch of example SWF files with source for you to play around with on the website.
If you like the software donations are of course appreciated at my website.