Advanced Scene Switcher 1.29.2

[lindenkron]

What's the best way to: ?
Trigger something once, once a scene item has become visibly shown.
Trigger something once, once a scene item has become visibly hidden.

Not having great success with

When I trigger a lot of these, even from different macros (each camera has their own) they seem to break each other somehow. Glitching animations and so on. So just asking to see if there's a better way to do this.

 

[lindenkron]

For the above, possibly even if any scene item in the scene has become visible? I'm not sure what's causing the glitched animations - perhaps it's an OBS thing and it's trying to reference a video already running and it glitches itself out or something.

 

[lindenkron]

So, doing it manually works. No glitches, animations play etc.

So I'm clearly just setting up Adv-ss wrong for doing what I want it to do.

I want it to this, but without glitching.
Portal in:

Portal out:

I tried doing what I wanted manually (since I originally thought it was the hide/show stinger transitions that were bugging), but if I enable them fast one after another manually; it works fine.

So something in the Adv-ss automation is making things go bad.

A rundown of what I'm trying to do:
Upon activating the camera (upper scene, lot of nested scenes) depending on which camera is enabled, no matter where, show portal - wait (so the portal animation can play), enable the camera source itself (which also have a show/hide transition - matte) - then hide portal again so it can be used again.

But I have a feeling something somewhere is triggering things multiple times - and breaking because OBS is like getting flooded with requests. I want it to do this once.

I'd love any help you have. Thanks!
-lindenkron

 

[Warmuptill]

So, doing it manually works. No glitches, animations play etc.

So I'm clearly just setting up Adv-ss wrong for doing what I want it to do.

I want it to this, but without glitching.
Portal in:
View attachment 77846
Portal out:
View attachment 77847

I tried doing what I wanted manually (since I originally thought it was the hide/show stinger transitions that were bugging), but if I enable them fast one after another manually; it works fine.

So something in the Adv-ss automation is making things go bad.

A rundown of what I'm trying to do:
Upon activating the camera (upper scene, lot of nested scenes) depending on which camera is enabled, no matter where, show portal - wait (so the portal animation can play), enable the camera source itself (which also have a show/hide transition - matte) - then hide portal again so it can be used again.

But I have a feeling something somewhere is triggering things multiple times - and breaking because OBS is like getting flooded with requests. I want it to do this once.

I'd love any help you have. Thanks!
-lindenkron

Can you maybe share a log file of this issue occurring with verbose logging enabled (General tab)?
This might give insights as to what is happening.

In general if you want to be sure a macro is only running a single time you could add another action to your macro which pauses the macro itself or add a condition which checks how often the macro was run.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a PC with OBS at the moment so I cannot share example screenshots.

 

[AaronD]

A rundown of what I'm trying to do:
Upon activating the camera (upper scene, lot of nested scenes) depending on which camera is enabled, no matter where, show portal - wait (so the portal animation can play), enable the camera source itself (which also have a show/hide transition - matte) - then hide portal again so it can be used again.

Could you have a bunch of identical scenes that play the same portal, that then transition to their respective camera scenes? Then you don't switch directly to the camera, but to the appropriate portal.

 

[lindenkron]

Can you maybe share a log file of this issue occurring with verbose logging enabled (General tab)?
This might give insights as to what is happening.

In general if you want to be sure a macro is only running a single time you could add another action to your macro which pauses the macro itself or add a condition which checks how often the macro was run.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a PC with OBS at the moment so I cannot share example screenshots.

Hmm not entirely sure how this'd help. As you can see above; the issue is that I'm trying to make the macro fire from being triggered by any of 6 camera positions. This is to ensure that it don't matter which position camera X is shown in, it'll still play the animation that's nested in the camera's scene.

But somehow, even if showing for example:
Camera 1 in Position 1
&
Camera 2 in Position 2
it'll start lagging and mess up animations etc.

I'll try a verbose logging.

 

[lindenkron]

What it's supposed to do:
Play one portal animation, a second later play the next - then show first camera, then show next. Then hide the portals.

What happens:
First portal plays, 2nd portal plays. First camera shows. Then 2nd portal closest with no camera shown. Then camera shows.

Depending on what order you do 1-2-3 in, they'll have weird glitchy interactions. That was just for this log:

https://obsproject.com/logs/xuQQUkxbSLLZagKa

 

[lindenkron]

I don't understand why these two macros (side by side) would interfer with each other, when they're not being triggered by anything in common.

This is what it looks like with the macro:

RJh1y510fK.mp4

Watch "RJh1y510fK.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

This is what it should look like (done manually):

CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4

Watch "CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

This is just one example of the glitching. It doesn't happen when I press the button, like it's waiting for something. It randomly cancels doing any animations and such.

 

[AaronD]

This is what it looks like with the macro:

RJh1y510fK.mp4

Watch "RJh1y510fK.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

This is what it should look like (done manually):

CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4

Watch "CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

Ah! Okay. So it's not an over-complicated XY problem. Great job on the examples. I thought you were using the word "portal" to describe a full-screen transition from one full-screen camera to another full-screen camera. Maybe you'd use it for a short bio of the person who's about to come on, or whatever... But no, it's actually a partial-screen animation that would be really hard to describe in words alone. Again, thanks for the examples!

 

[CodeYan]

Hey Warmuptill, thank you for adding so many good features! Again, I couldn't test the build as I didn't have time in the past few weeks, I'm sorry. Now that I've tested the latest version though, the parallelization looks really neat to me, thanks! I don't really have a super complicated setup so I don't know if there is an edge case, but I tried to break it with my setup, but it was fine.

For the screenshot functionality, it does work, but can you separate the scenes and sources in the dropdown list? It does get very cluttered. Also, please add "Preview Scene (Studio Mode)" to the choices (you can decide on the scene name haha).

I noticed that there is a potential bug. I made a macro that simply checks for a hotkey trigger (and some simple actions). I deactivated it. Then I pressed the hotkey, and as expected, it did not execute the macro. However, a few minutes later, I activated the macro, and it executed the macro. Is this because the events are pooled (which is a good idea anyhow)? I don't know if you need to fix this or not, as it is not a critical one (obviously if you're activating and deactivating macros, you're just setting up), but you may want to look at it.

Again, thanks for the amazing work! This is really superb for my workflow. Happy holidays!

 

[CodeYan]

Oh, could you also disable "Run macro" when the macro is running? Not necessary, but I think it's a nice UX change? Also, seeing that the macro can be a long one, maybe having a "Stop macro" is useful for testing? Thanks!

 

[CodeYan]

I don't understand why these two macros (side by side) would interfer with each other, when they're not being triggered by anything in common.
View attachment 77874This is what it looks like with the macro:

RJh1y510fK.mp4

Watch "RJh1y510fK.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

This is what it should look like (done manually):

CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4

Watch "CVeuIpJQgJ.mp4" on Streamable.

streamable.com

This is just one example of the glitching. It doesn't happen when I press the button, like it's waiting for something. It randomly cancels doing any animations and such.

Hey, you seem to be an old version? Please update to 1.16.5. Then you should see an option for each macro to "Run macro in parallel to other macros". Try to enable that for each macro, and see if that fixes your issue.

 

[lindenkron]

Hey, you seem to be an old version? Please update to 1.16.5. Then you should see an option for each macro to "Run macro in parallel to other macros". Try to enable that for each macro, and see if that fixes your issue.

Hey CodeYan, thanks for the reply.

I've been using a 1~ month old version of it that @Warmuptill made. It had some features in I needed. Unsure if they're in this one. I tried your suggestion; and it fixed 50% of it. The portals now show correctly, but when disappearing the animations just get cut off instantly.

I don't understand why.

I don't think this is a problem I can solve, not sure anyone can except for Warmuptill. It appears to be some sort of race condition that makes it so if you're messing with hiding something and playing a hide stinger - it breaks all other show/hide animations or transitions.


Again, thanks for the input though! Got me half way there, I unfortunately only have a few days to try and come up with a solution for this.

Happy Holidays to you,
-Lind

 

[CodeYan]

Hey Warmuptill! I have now tried the "Run Macro" action. I noticed that you can't actually run the same macro from within itself (infinite loop) as the macro would still be running. Which I think is reasonable, as it would otherwise result in recursion and potentially stack overflow. While for now I am fine with using the "Advanced scene switcher is running" for my infinite loop, maybe you should do something about this? Here are some ideas I have:
1. Remove the same macro from the choices.
2. Keep it, but when it executes the action, make it similar to a "continue" in a programming loop, so that further actions won't be executed, and it would run the macro from the top again. This needs a note that should show though, when the same macro is selected.
3. Keep it, but defer the execution till after all the actions are executed. (I personally don't like this option).

 

[lindenkron]

Solution:
It was a mixture of 3 things. I managed to solve it making a very simplisitic remake of my setup in a clean scene.
1: Showing reference of same Media File multiple places will play the file from the current playback time of the first shown source.
2: Run macro in parallel to other macros - this fixed another part that was broken (Thanks again CodeYan)
3: Missing transition stinger on one of the files made me constantly wonder why it was breaking. Found this out by doing Cam 2 & 3 that magically worked and not 1 & 2 where 1 kept breaking.

This has been a rollercoaster trying to figure out. Praying this is the last post on this <3

Again happy holidays,
-Lind

 

[CodeYan]

Solution:
It was a mixture of 3 things. I managed to solve it making a very simplisitic remake of my setup in a clean scene.
1: Showing reference of same Media File multiple places will play the file from the current playback time of the first shown source.
2: Run macro in parallel to other macros - this fixed another part that was broken (Thanks again CodeYan)
3: Missing transition stinger on one of the files made me constantly wonder why it was breaking. Found this out by doing Cam 2 & 3 that magically worked and not 1 & 2 where 1 kept breaking.

This has been a rollercoaster trying to figure out. Praying this is the last post on this <3

Again happy holidays,
-Lind

Glad I was able to help. Congrats on getting it fixed!

Edit: By the way, the build you had was probably already merged.

 

[lindenkron]

Glad I was able to help. Congrats on getting it fixed!

Edit: By the way, the build you had was probably already merged.

I hope so :)

On a side note - I appear to have broken Adv-ss. Trying to move a macro below one of my other macros yield crash log attached.

Yes. I'm annoyingly good at breaking things, I know. Sorry.

Steps are repeatable, it's when trying to move it past a specific macro. I try to move anything past 'Camera 1 - Portal In' and OBS crashes with attached log.

Any tips?
-Lind

 

[CodeYan]

@Warmuptill Hey, I experienced something weird. As I've mentioned b4, I have a macro set to loop infinitely (just showing/hiding 2 text sources and wait actions, no scene transitions). It works with other macros now with the parallelization. However, when I put it at the top of the priority list (like the note said), it seems to block all Media switches. I don't know if it's an issue with the parallelization, or if it's a bug necessary to fix. If I keep Media higher than Macro, it works.

 

[camfix]

Warmuptill, thank you for this invaluable tool you made!!
It works great and I'm really impressed by its ease of use.
I was banging my head on how to use a keyboard (and mouse) macro program for OBS when I found your excellent program!
With OBS's new features I am down to one last stop on automating our daily streams.

In case you have time and it's not implemented yet, could you please add an "End Boradcast" (similar to "End Stream") feature to the Macro section please?

I'm also trying to figure out how to automatically increment the date every day for creating the name of that day's stream, though that is not as important.
20211214_SouthCam (YYYY/mm/dd) needs to be named to 20211215_SouthCam for tomorrow's stream etc.
Thanks again for this jewel of swiss knifes!

 

[AaronD]

could you please add an "End Boradcast" (similar to "End Stream") feature to the Macro section please?

I've got too many versions floating around to get a screenshot of it, but at least one of them has something on the General tab (I believe) to stop the stream/recording when a certain scene is active. I have nothing in that scene (blackout), and it's at the end of a sequence that I start when the live part is done. When it hits that last scene, it kicks us off air. This also gives me a transition to black just before cutting off, which I like.

I'm also trying to figure out how to automatically increment the date every day for creating the name of that day's stream, though that is not as important.
20211214_SouthCam (YYYY/mm/dd) needs to be named to 20211215_SouthCam for tomorrow's stream etc.

Is this what you're looking for?
It gives a filename of 2021-12-14_Tue_14-21-39.mkv for today, or 2021-12-15_Wed_14-21-39.mkv for tomorrow, etc., and of course you can make it say what you want.