Question / Help Java overlay

dysteleology

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I am wondering if anyone can help me out with the following issue. Currently I am running a stream which basically has a gamecapture of league of legends, an overlay of a picture and a overlay from a textfile. All working fine except for other issues but that’s not what this topic is about.

To display more information on the overlay I wanted to make one program to sort all of this. Since I already have a java backend for my stream I tried creating a transparent frame with components on it I want to use as a overlay. After that I tried to capture that window with OBS to see if it can be used a overlay however I cannot get it to work. When I put the window on top of the source list in OBS the screen is completely black(game capture).

I currently use a Java Swing frame which is transparent and shows correctly in Windows 8. I however do not seem able to capture it with OBS. Does anyone have advice on how to continue?
 

dysteleology

New Member
After doing some testing it seems I have going at it the wrong way. I have now picked a fixed background for the java program and use that as a color key to make it transparent as a overlay. It is working in preview mode. Does anyone have more experience in using a overlay like this? I am wondering if it works well and stable.
 
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