Feature Request - Global Hotkeyable Layers

[FerretBomb]

It'd be extremely handy to have global overlay images, and be able to toggle them on/off with a hotkey; just have them show up above the top layer of the current scene. It'd be useful for things like AFK splash-images, stream-memes (GET CARRIED!), quick view-blocker images for logins/emergency situations, and other info at the touch of a button, instead of having to find the layer and click it with a mouse, and having to include each in every scene (and update them if you want to change them).

Images are #1 in my mind; not sure if window/game/etc-capture would be needed (without something like linked layers being included as well, so you could toggle on a splash-image with an inset window, it'd seem less than useful... at which point you might as well just make it a new scene anyway and just switch to it).

 

[Jack0r]

You mean "Global" Overlays which can be activated through a Hotkey?
Most streamers I know, just have a Scene for that, with one picture, and a hotkey set for switching to it.

Alternatively there could be an option to add a hotkey to a Source and toggle the source on/off with that hotkey!

 

[FerretBomb]

Yep. But it'd be far more convenient/versatile; you could use an alpha channel enabled image to just pop up a splash over whatever you were doing, without completely blocking gameplay... either (again) for an AFK splash, a 'toast' style popover, a drop-shadowed (with alpha) 'sunburst' style badge... that kind of thing.

I'd rather have the togglable source be global and not have to re-add the source to every scene, but being able to assign a hotkey to layer visibility within scenes could also be useful, yes.

 

[Senith]

Why is this not available yet? and if it is. how do i do it? i would realy love the idea of being able to pop up an image whenever i enter a safe key or a door code in DayZ so that i dont reveal all my keycodes for doors, safes and lockboxes.
The best way for me to do that would be a very simple toggleable image that is ontop of the position of the key entry window.
No clue how to make it though.

 

[dodgepong]

The OBS rewrite will be able to do global overlay type things, at least in the producer view. I'm not sure if such a thing will be possible in the standard view.