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This is really nice and the fact that it's open source is fantastic. Mind if I give some feedback and suggestions?
1. Could it possibly be a little smaller? Maybe just shave off 5px off the height or so. I'm aware that theres some tension between making it easily visible while not taking up much real estate as looking good on low quality streams. Just some food for thought.
2. I'm personally not so much a fan of the players' names being their colour. I'd rather something like a coloured box next to their name while their alias is white.
3. Spawn locations (such as T6 or Z12) next to the players' names.
This is just some suggestions! Not trying to sound like a hater 
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+ Show Spoiler +On November 20 2010 23:03 Cintiq wrote:
This is sick.
Is there going to be much control in terms of the graphics the streamers to change?
It looks great already, but I know I for one would love to be able to switch around the icons/background/fonts and such myself. Also, I notice the corners of the 'background' image are black. Is this a transparency issue? Or just that it had a black bg to begin with.
So, yeah. Being able to customise all the visual aspects of it would be incredibly appealing to me. Looks awesome so far.
There will - eventually. First thing is naturally to get the last bugs etc. worked out, and get the last functionality in place. I'm thinking I'll make it possible to change both background and fonts, which would allow you to customize it however you want.
About the black corners.. Thats really annoying me as well, and accually they were transparent in the original application, however when the application had transparency enabled, the screencapture programs simply couldnt see the app at all (which kinda defeats the purpose  ). Once I get an answer from the makers of some of the screencap apps, I might be able to fix it, but im pretty sure they need to make a codechange.
+ Show Spoiler +On November 21 2010 00:06 dodgepong wrote:
This is awesome! Great work!
I have 2 suggestions:
1) Add the ability to show map positions (clock positions) for each player (with hotkeys, of course)
2) Make it customizable/skinnable - allow people to create their own images for the background, icons, change the font, etc.
Yes, I was planning to add the location feature as one of the next things, thanks for pointing it out
+ Show Spoiler +On November 21 2010 00:15 PET wrote:
Nice job! I was just looking for something like this.
What about the possibility to add a text under the score, so I can write my www. address or something. The Event.
Or maybe the possibility to add another image overlay over the "replay bar"... so I woun't have to open another overlay.
Great contribution Very nice work, looks clean and the hotkeys are intuitive
One thing you could add is another bar that can cover the replay bar, that can take several jpg's as input and kinda shuffle through banners / sponsor info, so people don't have to put them everywhere.
I would probably just try to make this the one tool every streamer needs, and the only. webcam feed overlays etc that can be turned on as you wish.
As mentioned in this post, I plan to make both a replay overlay, and a "ticker" kinda thing where you can put links/event/whatever you want - It's coming as soon as I have time (however I do work 50+ hours a week, so all my (limited) spare time goes into this)
+ Show Spoiler +On November 21 2010 01:33 Special Endrey wrote:
sup nodash - bug ball of love inc!
you got an ETA about the release ?
Not really, but I do plan to have a beta up for everyone to use in a few days (maybe even tomorrow, sunday)
+ Show Spoiler +On November 21 2010 02:00 Jarvs wrote:This is really nice and the fact that it's open source is fantastic. Mind if I give some feedback and suggestions? 1. Could it possibly be a little smaller? Maybe just shave off 5px off the height or so. I'm aware that theres some tension between making it easily visible while not taking up much real estate as looking good on low quality streams. Just some food for thought. 2. I'm personally not so much a fan of the players' names being their colour. I'd rather something like a coloured box next to their name while their alias is white. 3. Spawn locations (such as T6 or Z12) next to the players' names. This is just some suggestions! Not trying to sound like a hater
Thanks for the feedback
1. Accually the size is easily changeable with some of the streaming apps - with ie. xsplit, you just put the app on your 2nd screen, and make a camera the size of the app. You can then insert the camera feed on your main (SC2) screen at whatever size you want. Application based resizing will come at a later time (along with other UI customizations).
2. Thats a nice idea, I'll certainly implement that as an option soon
3. As mentioned above, I plan to implement the spawn locations soon
Yea, I guess everything is covered above (albiet a bit messy).
/nodash
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Appreciate you giving this out to the community. Definitely makes all streams more professional. I'll give some feedback after I get a chance to use it.
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Looking great mate
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pretty good job there
at least with functions/hotkeys and all that stuff
but i think the design needs quite a lot of work :O
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love u dude! won't need acdsee every time!
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This tool looks to be identical to what gosugamers stream have been using for months now. Either way it's great.
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only that gosugamers' wasn't open to public, until now.
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Israel2209 Posts
This looks great! can't wait for it
I've been using GIMP to update an image between games, hopefully this will be much more convenient.
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Can't wait to use this, looks awesome!
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Well, I don't really know what to think about the release timing of GGs caster tool - if they just released because it was time, and not related to my project, thats nice.
If they released it because they'd rather have everyone use their tool to get the publicity or whatever, thats fine with me as well. No matter how you put it, we now have a free tool for the community.
I've contacted GG to try and figure out whether I should continue my project or just scrap it, or even make something together.
Will post when I know more
/nodash
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Just want to know where I can dl it +)
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On November 21 2010 04:34 nodash wrote:Well, I don't really know what to think about the release timing of GGs caster tool - if they just released because it was time, and not related to my project, thats nice. If they released it because they'd rather have everyone use their tool to get the publicity or whatever, thats fine with me as well. No matter how you put it, we now have a free tool for the community. I've contacted GG to try and figure out whether I should continue my project or just scrap it, or even make something together. Will post when I know more /nodash
Your one looks 100x better, please keep it coming, I would love to use it on iCCup TV!!
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On November 21 2010 16:56 iCCup.Diamond wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2010 04:34 nodash wrote:Well, I don't really know what to think about the release timing of GGs caster tool - if they just released because it was time, and not related to my project, thats nice. If they released it because they'd rather have everyone use their tool to get the publicity or whatever, thats fine with me as well. No matter how you put it, we now have a free tool for the community. I've contacted GG to try and figure out whether I should continue my project or just scrap it, or even make something together. Will post when I know more /nodash Your one looks 100x better, please keep it coming, I would love to use it on iCCup TV!!
There, now you became more relevant than gosu gamers.
I love this community, keep it up man, you are one of those people that make me happy to live in this world.
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On November 21 2010 16:56 iCCup.Diamond wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2010 04:34 nodash wrote:Well, I don't really know what to think about the release timing of GGs caster tool - if they just released because it was time, and not related to my project, thats nice. If they released it because they'd rather have everyone use their tool to get the publicity or whatever, thats fine with me as well. No matter how you put it, we now have a free tool for the community. I've contacted GG to try and figure out whether I should continue my project or just scrap it, or even make something together. Will post when I know more /nodash Your one looks 100x better, please keep it coming, I would love to use it on iCCup TV!!
I have to agree. Please release yours
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On November 20 2010 21:00 nodash wrote:Hi, Thanks alot for all the positive feedback, its awesome! The idea down the line is that it will be a StreamerUtil pack, which includes the following apps (and more, if you have ideas): StreamerMU - this app (can someone suggest a better name?  StreamerKOTH - King of the hill overlay, keep track of peoples wins, losses etc. StreamerOverlay - replay overlay, overlay for whatever pics StreamerTicker - scrolling text or links to brackets, message of the day, whatever you want ) StreamerSkype - manage skype calls/conferences, see whos in a conference etc (this is almost done, but its a bit complicated hooking in to skype and catch everything thats going on there) In the end I guess it will all be merged in to a big ball of love for the community /Nodash
Brilliant!!
It will revolutionise the streaming community and I can't see any sensible person not using this if all goes well
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looks really good man and i totally agree with pretty much all comments and compliments so far...
but i'm curious...is this "just" gonna be an overlay for sc2 or are you planning it for several games?
because i just tried the GG overlay out and it sure is pretty good for sc2 and may also be used for other games but it's really pretty much the basics and adapted to be used for sc2 singleplayer only (like the icons, the colours, no actual teamgame support, ...)
and i would really like to see one which might be used for other gamemodes and also other games aswell...
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Please release it! I want!
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