Question / Help New to OBS and had some questions

[Kris Sherriff]

Hi All,

So I came to OBS a couple of Weeks ago as I was asked to stream some X-Wing: Miniatures Game from my local store and only had a Macbook available for a portable option.

I was instantly impressed with the easy and quality of the stream I managed to put out at short notice on the Mac but wanted to move over to Windows for access to more plug-ins Having now picked up a good laptop I am having to re-learn a lot of stuff that I have not done for years and years so am struggling with some (possibly basic) stuff.

What would be the Best/Easiest way to have multiple ship stats on each side of my stream that are easily updated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHuDvE0XaV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0sa3pxa0gE

I have included a link to the two YouTube uploads of the streams I did on the Mac to give an idea of what I mean.

On the first link I just created image files which I had to manually drag in to place and then switch on and off for loss of damage.

For Stream Two I went to a text based stat system but again created everything locally in OBS.

Now whilst I was happy enough with the way this worked it is quite time intensive to set up, and looks amateurish if I accidentally pull something when casting the stream.

I have been playing around with using Notebook text files for the ship text but miss the graphic out put from the first stream.

So any tips or suggestions or any help at all really would be appreciated. I am not afraid of putting the work in to make the stream look good but as I am trying to do everything myself I am not sure where I should be putting my energy!

Thank you in advanced,

Kris

 

[dping]

Hi All,

So I cam to OBS a couple of Weeks ago as I was asked to stream some X-Wing: Miniatures Game from my local store and only had a Macbook available for a portable option.

I was instantly impressed with the easy and quality of the stream I managed to put out at short notice on the Mac but wanted to move over to Windows for access to more plug-ins Having now picked up a good laptop I am having to re-learn a lot of stuff that I have not done for years and years so am struggling with some (possibly basic) stuff.

What would be the Best/Easiest way to have multiple ship stats on each side of my stream that are easily updated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHuDvE0XaV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0sa3pxa0gE

I have included a link to the two YouTube uploads of the streams I did on the Mac to give an idea of what I mean.

On the first link I just created image files which I had to manually drag in to place and then switch on and off for loss of damage.

For Stream Two I went to a text based stat system but again created everything locally in OBS.

Now whilst I was happy enough with the way this worked it is quite time intensive to set up, and looks amateurish if I accidentally pull something when casting the stream.

I have been playing around with using Notebook text files for the ship text but miss the graphic out put from the first stream.

So any tips or suggestions or any help at all really would be appreciated. I am not afraid of putting the work in to make the stream look good but as I am trying to do everything myself I am not sure where I should be putting my energy!

Thank you in advanced,

Kris

you could use CLR browser plugin and display a local (on your hard drive) .htm file (which will show up as a website) then peetty much make a local site for this. you can also set up an actual site that you can provide a link to your viewers if they want to just watch the site for updates.


I would then ask around if someone can make you a program to update the .htm with an interface made C specifically to edit parts of the .htm or you can update the .htm manually with a text editor for now, but you can assign colors in htm if you like as well then just save each turn from there.


Either way, some work will need to be done to provide quicker updates to this file and if course some security so it can be tracked. I wouldn't doubt that you could eventually use some sort of database to track turns with a database if that is something you desire to put some time into.


That being said, there are people out there that are much more talented than I that can do this but this is just my thoughs.