Advanced Scene Switcher 1.29.3

[lindenkron]

A little feedback, perhaps it's just my personal opinion:

Not having these as full length name makes it a little hard/confusing to get the correct thing - seeing as I don't always remember what I called things :D

Edit

Okay so it shows on the 2nd filter full length. Now I'm really confused :P

 

[lindenkron]

Also, I had this same issue with one of Exeldro's Plugin windows - Would it be possible to add the ability to "leave" the window while having 'Advanced Scene Switcher' window open; but enabling the ability to click things in the back without having to close the Advanced Scene Switcher window?

It's really nice for work flow that you don't constantly gotta close it, open filters, open advanced scene switcher again, close advanced scene switcher, go to filters to find/edit something, open Advanced Scene Switcher again.

Exeldro made a change so you could keep Transition Table open, and still do things with OBS - was hoping that'd be possible here as well :)

 

[Warmuptill]

A little feedback, perhaps it's just my personal opinion:

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Not having these as full length name makes it a little hard/confusing to get the correct thing - seeing as I don't always remember what I called things :D

Edit
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Okay so it shows on the 2nd filter full length. Now I'm really confused :P

Thanks for pointing that out!
Fix is available below.

Also, I had this same issue with one of Exeldro's Plugin windows - Would it be possible to add the ability to "leave" the window while having 'Advanced Scene Switcher' window open; but enabling the ability to click things in the back without having to close the Advanced Scene Switcher window?

It's really nice for work flow that you don't constantly gotta close it, open filters, open advanced scene switcher again, close advanced scene switcher, go to filters to find/edit something, open Advanced Scene Switcher again.

Exeldro made a change so you could keep Transition Table open, and still do things with OBS - was hoping that'd be possible here as well :)

A build with this change will be available here in a few minutes:

Ensure contents of comboboxes are readable when changing scene/filter · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@b117e74

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[Warmuptill]

Hey!
I can't figure out how to implement the action:
There are scenes, they are all randomly repeated, each scene has media (rtsp webcam links).
How to make sure that if the connection with the camera is lost, the scene will automatically disappear from the random?
And it automatically appeared when a connection with a webcam appeared)

Sorry for the text, it is translated from the cyrillic)
Thanks! :)

I now implemented a first draft of a functionality which could be used to achieve what you want to do.
The new functionality can be found on the macro tab in the action section and is called "Random".
This action type will allow you to execute a random macro from a predefined list of macros, but crucially paused macros will be ignored.
So combining this with separate macros which pause / unpause macros if the image of certain sources is frozen you can exclude macros to be chosen randomly.

So you setup might look something like this in the end:

A few actions to actually switch scenes and wait a certain amount of time (similar to the entries on the Random tab)

A macro that will continuously try to randomly run any of the defined random scene switches

And macros which pause your scene switch macros if certain conditions are met. (For example the image is frozen for 10s)

A build with this functionality will be available here in a few minutes:

Draft macro action "random" · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@1630e27

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Note that you have to be logged into GitHub to be able to download it.
Let me know if that is an issue for you.

Hope that helps!

 

[lindenkron]

The more I explore this plugin, the more I discover I can automate. It's quite entrancing.

I've however come across another small hiccup that I'm not entirely sure how to battle. I'll paint the scenario below:

I have a caster scene. Now; depending on which scene I'm coming from, the transition will differ. Coming from the Intro scene has a rather long transition - that also ends approximately 2~ seconds before the video file actually ends (I blame creative!).

Now the issue is, that this results in Adv-ss not being able to detect neither "Wait for transition to complete" or "Previous Scene is" until the actual file is done playing; despite the animation visually having ended.

What I'm trying to achieve is to automatically switch the audio feeds volume up/down accordingly; but at the right time. And only when coming from intro.

At the moment all I can achieve is 2 seconds after they're on screen (so they'll start talking early while still being muted) or while the stinger is still playing.

Is it not possible to detect a 'Previous Scene' before a stinger has finished playing? It doesn't appear so at the moment.

If I could do as shown in the image below; I could adjust the Wait duration to fit when I want the volumes to go up and down - but unfortunately this never adjusts the volume.

I also have a similar issue (think it's not registering Previous scene is) with trying to make adjustments only when its not coming from Intro.

Looking forward to trying the new builds tomorrow!
Thanks again,
-Lind

 

[Warmuptill]

The more I explore this plugin, the more I discover I can automate. It's quite entrancing.

I've however come across another small hiccup that I'm not entirely sure how to battle. I'll paint the scenario below:

I have a caster scene. Now; depending on which scene I'm coming from, the transition will differ. Coming from the Intro scene has a rather long transition - that also ends approximately 2~ seconds before the video file actually ends (I blame creative!).

Now the issue is, that this results in Adv-ss not being able to detect neither "Wait for transition to complete" or "Previous Scene is" until the actual file is done playing; despite the animation visually having ended.

What I'm trying to achieve is to automatically switch the audio feeds volume up/down accordingly; but at the right time. And only when coming from intro.

At the moment all I can achieve is 2 seconds after they're on screen (so they'll start talking early while still being muted) or while the stinger is still playing.

Is it not possible to detect a 'Previous Scene' before a stinger has finished playing? It doesn't appear so at the moment.

If I could do as shown in the image below; I could adjust the Wait duration to fit when I want the volumes to go up and down - but unfortunately this never adjusts the volume.

I also have a similar issue (think it's not registering Previous scene is) with trying to make adjustments only when its not coming from Intro.
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Looking forward to trying the new builds tomorrow!
Thanks again,
-Lind

Maybe I am missing something crucial but shouldn't a condition like this do the trick?

> Is it not possible to detect a 'Previous Scene' before a stinger has finished playing?
If the "wait for transition to complete" box is checked the current scene check will still return the transition that is currently being transition away from.

I am not really happy with the name of this option so if you have better suggestion let me know :)

 

[Warmuptill]

Warmuptill updated Advanced Scene Switcher with a new update entry:

Fixes and improvements

The main focus of this update was fixing issues and improving upon existing functionality.
Additions:

• Add the option to fade in/out volume changes via the "Audio" macro action.
  
• Add macro action "Random", which will allow...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[lindenkron]

Maybe I am missing something crucial but shouldn't a condition like this do the trick?

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> Is it not possible to detect a 'Previous Scene' before a stinger has finished playing?
If the "wait for transition to complete" box is checked the current scene check will still return the transition that is currently being transition away from.

I am not really happy with the name of this option so if you have better suggestion let me know :)

Yes, that did the trick since I'm only using the transition for this specific scene change. However; if I were to use it in two places I don't seem to have a way to specify to only do it if previous scene is X.

The option is there; but it seems to only check after the transition has finished as I stated above. I know it's a problem that's really hard to understand when writing in text.

Without checking 'Wait for transition'; it seems to only "check" previous scene after the transition has occured. The issue here is, if you have a alpha stinger, the casters/camera would most likely be visible prior to the actual file (stinger) finishing playing - so (in my specific case) checking for a previous scene won't be validated until after the stinger has finished - which delays the volume changes by 2-3 seconds.

I tried to explain it above, but I understand why it can be hard to understand the exact issue of the scenario I've run into.

However, checking for the intro > caster scene transition and then running a wait on that seemed to do the trick.

Perhaps the other way works as well but I'm just doing something wrong; am unsure.

Thanks for the help though!
-Lind

Edit:
Also having the issue where this is triggering; despite the transition being 'Stinger'.

 

[lindenkron]

Sorry if it feels like I'm spamming; there's just so many things here it's really hard not to type a lot when getting into it.

So; small request - would it be possible to have arguments: perhaps be default no box; and added with a plus? Or removable with minus.

I just use it to run files, I'm not sure what the arguments are for (I'm sure there's really cool things you can do with it) but when I add a few it just takes up a lot of space and gets a little messy.

Secondly; I can't get it to run VLC playlist files. Simply nothing happens when I use run for it. It seems to run the close_vlc.bat just fine; but the .xspf file doesn't seem to run.

I tried the new build from above and I've not had any issues yet! =)

Again, thanks so much - sorry for taking up this much of your time :)

 

[khaver]

Feature request: Add a checkbox on all macro actions with optional title and message to display a system tray notification when an action runs.

I see you added a checkbox in the general tab to display a notification when the plugin is activated. While that's nice, it would also be nice to have the option to display them whenever an action is triggered. Right now I'm using an os.execute in a lua script to run a utility, specifically created to displays a tray notification (SystemTrayMessage.exe), whenever the recording starts and stops, but the os.execute function flashes a cmd window in the middle of the screen when it runs something. Annoying when someone is controlling presentation software on the same computer. You do have a Run action which I could use to run the tray message utility, but it would be better to have it native in the plugin.

Thanks for such a great plugin.

 

[Warmuptill]

Without checking 'Wait for transition'; it seems to only "check" previous scene after the transition has occured.

Correct, when this option is checked during a scene transition the scene being transitioned to is being returned.
If it is not checked the scene being transitioned away from is being returned.

I think the confusing part here is what is defined as the "previous" scene while a scene transition is currently active.

The plugin currently only updates the previous scene when a scene transition completed and not while a transition started.
For your specific case you will have to solely rely on the current scene check.

Also having the issue where this is triggering; despite the transition being 'Stinger'.

That particular option which transition is currently selected as the default transition in OBS.

It does not care about transition overrides or whether a transition is currently active.
You might be looking for the "transition active" check.

Sorry if it feels like I'm spamming; there's just so many things here it's really hard not to type a lot when getting into it.

Haha, no worries - I am happy to help and am glad you are interested in using the plugin! :)

So; small request - would it be possible to have arguments: perhaps be default no box; and added with a plus?

Good suggestion - I will look into it!

Secondly; I can't get it to run VLC playlist files. Simply nothing happens when I use run for it. It seems to run the close_vlc.bat just fine; but the .xspf file doesn't seem to run.

An xspf file itself is not executable.
You will have to launch VLC (or some other media player) and provide the the xspf file as an argument.
Here is an example - note that the "file:///" part is important when you want to use absolute paths with VLC it seems.

Feature request: Add a checkbox on all macro actions with optional title and message to display a system tray notification when an action runs.

Thanks for the suggestion!
This should be rather easy to implement.
But I will probably go for a slightly different approach and instead add a separate action just for displaying notifications to the system tray.

 

[Warmuptill]

So; small request - would it be possible to have arguments: perhaps be default no box; and added with a plus?

I added automatic resizing of lists to the "run" and "random" actions:

A build with this change will be available here in a few minutes:

List resize · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@fd77ef5

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Feature request: Add a checkbox on all macro actions with optional title and message to display a system tray notification when an action runs.

I now added a new "system tray notification" action:

A build including the new system tray macro action is available here:

Add macro action to display system tray notifications · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@1ecd754

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Note that you have to be logged into GitHub to download the build - let me know if that is an issue for you.

 

[lindenkron]

Correct, when this option is checked during a scene transition the scene being transitioned to is being returned.
If it is not checked the scene being transitioned away from is being returned.

I think the confusing part here is what is defined as the "previous" scene while a scene transition is currently active.

The plugin currently only updates the previous scene when a scene transition completed and not while a transition started.
For your specific case you will have to solely rely on the current scene check.

Ah. That's unfortunate since there's really no way of doing proper scene:
A > B do this
C > B do something else
if you want it to happen sometime during the transition, if they're using same scene transition

That particular option which transition is currently selected as the default transition in OBS.
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It does not care about transition overrides or whether a transition is currently active.
You might be looking for the "transition active" check.
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Ah I see. That confused me a bit; but it makes sense now.

An xspf file itself is not executable.
You will have to launch VLC (or some other media player) and provide the the xspf file as an argument.
Here is an example - note that the "file:///" part is important when you want to use absolute paths with VLC it seems.
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Okay.. so I can see why this might be a bit more flexibile in some scenarios; but it's certainly not very user friendly. Is there a reason there's no 'Open' option like the StreamDeck has?

I added automatic resizing of lists to the "run" and "random" actions:
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That definitely takes up less space.

 

[lindenkron]

So, with the latest build above (1ecd754) it's still got large boxes for arguments:

 

[Warmuptill]

So, with the latest build above (1ecd754) it's still got large boxes for arguments:
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That is the wrong build.
The new one is named 48c526f.

You probably have 5 different builds downloaded so it is probably very easy to mix them up :P

Ah. That's unfortunate since there's really no way of doing proper scene:
A > B do this
C > B do something else
if you want it to happen sometime during the transition, if they're using same scene transition

Maybe I still don't fully understand, but should this not do what you are looking for?

Okay.. so I can see why this might be a bit more flexibile in some scenarios; but it's certainly not very user friendly. Is there a reason there's no 'Open' option like the StreamDeck has?

I was simply not aware of there being a demand for it :)
I will look into - thanks for the suggestion!

 

[lindenkron]

That is the wrong build.
The new one is named 48c526f.

You probably have 5 different builds downloaded so it is probably very easy to mix them up :P

Ah, I downloaded the bottom one (The one you replied to someone else with), I was really confused because I double checked. I tried the one above; and that one works! :)

Maybe I still don't fully understand, but should this not do what you are looking for?
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Perhaps? I'll try; The logic just eludes me a bit "If Scene = A & If Scene = B" I never thought this could return true - since your only on one scene at a time?

I was simply not aware of there being a demand for it :)
I will look into - thanks for the suggestion!

That'd be great! Simplifying opening various files of any kind would be useful in a lot of scenarios.

I'll let you know when I've tested your suggestion above! :)

 

[Warmuptill]

Perhaps? I'll try; The logic just eludes me a bit "If Scene = A & If Scene = B" I never thought this could return true - since your only on one scene at a time?

The important part is the state of the "wait for transition to complete" checkbox.
The first "scene" condition will check the scene being transitioned to and the second one the one that is being transitioned from.

That'd be great! Simplifying opening various files of any kind would be useful in a lot of scenarios.

I have implemented your request for the run action as a fallback option in the mean time.
So if the currently entered settings are a valid way to start a process the old method will be used.
If not (and no arguments were provided) the "Stream Deck open" way will be used.
A build should be available here in a few minutes:

Add fallback using QDesktopServices::openUrl() for "run" action · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@d9828b6

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[lindenkron]

So I tested your method. I got it to trigger only once using this method:

With a 200ms checking time. If anyone else asks for help :) Without the 04-Casters "For at most" it would trigger the Macro twice.

I'm still not entirely sure how the logic above works tbh with you; even reading you explanation like 10 times hehe. But if it works it works!

I'll download the new version and try it out.

Also, I'm not sure this is the updates fault; but I've never had a crash like this before. It happened while switching back and forth testing Adv-ss;

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Thanks for your time helping me figure this stuff out.

 

[AaronD]

The important part is the state of the "wait for transition to complete" checkbox.
The first "scene" condition will check the scene being transitioned to and the second one the one that is being transitioned from.

Maybe those could be separate conditions, instead of the same condition with a modifier?

 

[Warmuptill]

I'm still not entirely sure how the logic above works tbh with you; even reading you explanation like 10 times hehe. But if it works it works!

Glad to hear you got it to work.

Maybe those could be separate conditions, instead of the same condition with a modifier?

Might be an option - not sure what I would call this condition, however.

What do you think about instead of calling this option instead of "wait for transition to complete" something like "while transitioning check scene being transitioned to".

Another idea might be to maybe remove the checkbox entirely from the current scene check and expand the transition condition and offer specifying the transition target scene or source scene.

Also, I'm not sure this is the updates fault; but I've never had a crash like this before. It happened while switching back and forth testing Adv-ss;

Hm, I don't really see any useful information in the crash report unfortunately.
It seems to crash deep within the QT libraries and I don't see any activity of the advanced scene switcher.
Do you still remember what exactly you were doing?