Question / Help Automatic scene/window switching?

[LGx]

Hey.

I'm streaming a game where it has a client for the main game play but it also uses a browser for things like viewing the inventory and the marketplace. Basically the game is split between a browser and the client. Also, the client stays open while viewing the inventory in the browser. I currently just run the stream on Monitor Capture to get it all but I'd like to be able to just capture the client and the browser, so a Game Capture mode for the game and a Window Capture mode for the browser. I'd like it to automatically display whichever one is in focus. Is this possible and if so, how would I go about setting it up?

Thanks

 

[FerretBomb]

Unfortunately focus-detection is not a feature. You'd need to manually switch between two scenes, one for each of the 'modes'. The only auto-switcher works for things like LoL, where the in-game client is a separate executable and is only called while the game session is live.

If the browser fully closes any time it isn't in-view, you could set up a window capture and just place it over the top of the in-game Game Capture. I've found that in many cases when a window is not present (or is minimized, sometimes), the Window Cap simply goes transparent. If it just backgrounds the browser, that would not work as the window would still technically exist.

I'd say that kind of inventory system sounds like a bit of bad design, not just implementing it in-game natively while also providing a browser version for out-of-game access/interaction. Or even just putting a web browser into the game client itself.

 

[LGx]

Alright, thanks.

The game originally started as a browser game and you can even still play it in browser but he recently released a "stand-alone" client for the game play side and I found myself liking it more because of resolution options and being able to use post-processing stuff with it. The dev hinted recently that he was gonna try and implement the rest of the stuff, like the marketplace and inventory into the client so that would be nice. The game is called Dead Frontier, if you're interested.

I guess I'll just stick with Monitor Capture for now. I read somewhere that using Mon Capture wasn't good but I don't recall seeing a reason for why it's not good to use. Is this true, and if so, what would be wrong with using it? I understand that it doesn't look professional but does it hurt quality or anything like that?

 

[FerretBomb]

It's got major performance issues under Windows 7. Bad enough that it can cause the game framerate to suffer significantly, even. If you're on Win8 or higher, MonCap works fine.

Also, a number of streamers have accidentally shown... er... 'personal' things on-stream in the past, since MonCap provides no exclusion control, as GC/WC do. It's generally a good idea to use GC/WC so you only ever show what you intend to on-stream.