Feature request: repeated loading of images

[Light And Magic]

I would like to make my stream overlay more dynamic. As a software developer myself I can create images on the fly of things I'd like to share with my viewers, but when I set OBS to load an image from disk and put it in a certain location on stream, it will load it only once. I would like it to keep looking for changes (or at least would like to set a timer on that image loading so that OBS would repeatedly look at that image and put any new versions on stream).

Is this something that could be done already by, for example, uploading my images to a web server and have OBS load them repeatedly from there?

 

[Lain]

Will probably make it poll for file updates in future versions.

 

[Light And Magic]

I know that won't be hard to code, but I also realize your list of stuff to-do is gigantic, thanks a lot for at least considering this feature. Now I will wait with even more excitement for new releases...

 

[Lain]

Yea, I apologize if I don't get around to these sort of things right away, the agenda list is indeed really big and there's limited people available, so we have to be pretty picky about what we can work on at a given time.

 

[Light And Magic]

I fully understand, what I will do for now is let OBS capture parts of my own EVE Stream tool which will create dynamic images in his own windows, this way I can work around the missing feature for now. Thanks for your comments.

 

[Light And Magic]

Just want to send a keep alive trickle because the Twitch bot I am writing myself wants to output pictures to a folder and I would like to get those pictures into my scenes, updating as the bot updates them. My bot will run cross-platform so if you make this feature do it everywhere ;-)

 

[Harold]

One thing you could do in the interim is use the browser plugin with a page coded to load the image and refresh it periodically using javascript or something like that.

 

[Light And Magic]

Sounds like a decent workaround, Harold, I could do this, but the future streamers using my bot can not, I can not depend on all of them having a site to put such a page on. By that time I hope OBS will help out.