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On February 21 2011 13:40 EonShiKeno wrote:
I messed around with it and I looks great, but It won't work since I do my recording using Fraps.
Yeah fraps only records the actual game window so to use this you would have to use VHCapture or another app that captures a window you can specify rather than just the game itself. There's lots of tutorials here on TL.net on how to get that working if you want help on it. Day9's is the most useful IMO.
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Is there a way to move the score count? Maybe it's just me, the score is to the left of center, below Player 1's name. I have to use low res to get the score centered. I'm using Win7 64bit btw.
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So I just saw that as part of the new patch that is currently on the test server there are a bunch of casting tools (i.e. player name, race and color display). I haven't had a chance to test it so I'll look at it tonight before making a final decision but it appears that the new update coming for SC2 will pretty much make my Alpha Caster application obsolete lol.
I am up for continuing to update this if people think that there is additional functionality that they would like that Blizzard does not add or if they like the artwork that I'm providing better than whatever Blizzard does (doubtful since their artists are baller!) so if you guys want to keep this application around and current please post here and let me know. Otherwise chances are that I will stop providing updates for this when that update to SC2 is released.
Thanks to everyone who has followed this application so far and provided feedback and gotten use out of this. It's been a blast to make and has been fun to interact with the community on this.
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On February 28 2011 23:58 Achaia wrote:
So I just saw that as part of the new patch that is currently on the test server there are a bunch of casting tools (i.e. player name, race and color display). I haven't had a chance to test it so I'll look at it tonight before making a final decision but it appears that the new update coming for SC2 will pretty much make my Alpha Caster application obsolete lol.
I am up for continuing to update this if people think that there is additional functionality that they would like that Blizzard does not add or if they like the artwork that I'm providing better than whatever Blizzard does (doubtful since their artists are baller!) so if you guys want to keep this application around and current please post here and let me know. Otherwise chances are that I will stop providing updates for this when that update to SC2 is released.
Thanks to everyone who has followed this application so far and provided feedback and gotten use out of this. It's been a blast to make and has been fun to interact with the community on this.
Achaia.... no sir it will not. Unless they are gonna allow for image overlays and that would be news to me. Furthermore, some of the way things show up is not clean and obviously from what I can tell is uncustomizable. For the basic caster yes it will be enough for the advanced caster like myself I need your product. Please don't go away!
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On March 23 2011 02:05 rakura wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2011 23:58 Achaia wrote:
So I just saw that as part of the new patch that is currently on the test server there are a bunch of casting tools (i.e. player name, race and color display). I haven't had a chance to test it so I'll look at it tonight before making a final decision but it appears that the new update coming for SC2 will pretty much make my Alpha Caster application obsolete lol.
I am up for continuing to update this if people think that there is additional functionality that they would like that Blizzard does not add or if they like the artwork that I'm providing better than whatever Blizzard does (doubtful since their artists are baller!) so if you guys want to keep this application around and current please post here and let me know. Otherwise chances are that I will stop providing updates for this when that update to SC2 is released.
Thanks to everyone who has followed this application so far and provided feedback and gotten use out of this. It's been a blast to make and has been fun to interact with the community on this. Achaia.... no sir it will not. Unless they are gonna allow for image overlays and that would be news to me. Furthermore, some of the way things show up is not clean and obviously from what I can tell is uncustomizable. For the basic caster yes it will be enough for the advanced caster like myself I need your product. Please don't go away!
Thanks for your support! I do not plan on taking down the existing application by any means so feel free to download and share as much as you like! If there's other functionality that neither my app nor SC2 has then please feel free to request it. I'm not going to be proactively providing updates any more though unless specific features are requested.
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Good work on the app, it is much better than the basic stuff Blizzard has supplied.
A few suggestions to improve this app:
- If you make the player names directly editable in the score board, that would help
- Would it be possible to make the score be able to increase/decrease on mouse clicks?
- Could make the options menu able to minimize?
Thanks for the Score board!
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Actually it already does all of the items you mentioned I believe.
1. You can double click on a player name and it will give you a text box to edit the player name. When you're finished editing just hit Enter on your keyboard to apply the changes.
2. For the player score you can't Left/Right Click to increase/decrease the score but you do have keyboard shortcuts that you can use to add or subtract from the player scores. Check the OP for a list of available hotkeys.
3. You can hide the settings panel a couple of ways. One way is to right click on the icon in your system tray and click "Show/Hide Settings" option to toggle the settings panel visibility. You can also hit Ctrl + P to toggle the settings panel visibility.
Glad you like the app and of course if you have any more feedback feel free to let me know.
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Hey, is it just me or is the download link in the OP broken now? It takes me to a very..... not-mediafire looking website -_-;;
EDIT: Well someone who it was working for, sent it to me 
Can this overlay be visible only to the stream? Like, if I m playing and streaming can I have this running without actually seeing it myself, but the stream sees it?
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On April 04 2011 11:56 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Hey, is it just me or is the download link in the OP broken now? It takes me to a very..... not-mediafire looking website -_-;; EDIT: Well someone who it was working for, sent it to me Can this overlay be visible only to the stream? Like, if I m playing and streaming can I have this running without actually seeing it myself, but the stream sees it?
The application itself does not have any way for supporting this directly. My initial thought is that you would need to stream a composite of the overlay on top of your regular screen stream (kind of like a picture in picture) but I'm not entirely sure what it would take to set that up. I'll try to take a look at it when I get home tonight and see if it's easily done. What streaming service/applications do you use Jinro? I could test it better if I used the same stuff you do.
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On February 24 2011 05:23 Cel.erity wrote:
Is there a way to move the score count? Maybe it's just me, the score is to the left of center, below Player 1's name. I have to use low res to get the score centered. I'm using Win7 64bit btw.
Still wondering about an answer to this question. I've been unable to use the app for this reason.
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I love this application, I have been streaming with it for quite some time now, just stopped in to DL the new version and say thank you. I will use this over the blizzard one because of player score and image overlay. Keep up the good work.
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Sweden33723 Posts
On April 04 2011 22:50 Achaia wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2011 11:56 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Hey, is it just me or is the download link in the OP broken now? It takes me to a very..... not-mediafire looking website -_-;; EDIT: Well someone who it was working for, sent it to me Can this overlay be visible only to the stream? Like, if I m playing and streaming can I have this running without actually seeing it myself, but the stream sees it? The application itself does not have any way for supporting this directly. My initial thought is that you would need to stream a composite of the overlay on top of your regular screen stream (kind of like a picture in picture) but I'm not entirely sure what it would take to set that up. I'll try to take a look at it when I get home tonight and see if it's easily done. What streaming service/applications do you use Jinro? I could test it better if I used the same stuff you do.
Xsplit, thanks!
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On April 06 2011 09:53 Cel.erity wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2011 05:23 Cel.erity wrote:
Is there a way to move the score count? Maybe it's just me, the score is to the left of center, below Player 1's name. I have to use low res to get the score centered. I'm using Win7 64bit btw. Still wondering about an answer to this question. I've been unable to use the app for this reason.
I'm so so so so sorry! Somehow I missed your post. I try to get responses to bug fixes as soon as possible so I'm really embarrassed that I missed your item. I'll look at it first thing when I get home tonight mate and repost.
@Jinro - Cool thanks mate! I feel like there's some kind of Picture-in-Picture setup that will work but I'll have to play with it a bit to figure it out. Once I have had a chance to research it I'll post here to let you know what I've found.
Thanks again to everyone who's still expressing interest in this application! I figured this would immediately die when Blizzard added their support for some of this functionality but it's cool to see how many people are still interested in it. I'm still open to adding more features if you guys want any additional enhancements so if there's something missing that you want fire away!
The only big item I had on my development list for feature enhancements still was the auto-populate for the player name fields (i.e. you start typing a name and it gives you the closest matching name based on characters you've entered). Is this something that people still using the app have a need/desire for? Let me know!
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XSplit Picture-In-Picture Setup
Per Jinro's request I have looked into a Picture-In-Picture (PIP) setup for streaming which would allow you to use the overlay application without actually interfering with your gaming. I have currently only researched this for the XSplit broadcaster application so that is what this tutorial will focus on but I'm sure it's possible in different applications as well.
What You Need: XSplit Brodcaster, XSplit Beta Account, Dual Monitor Setup, Alpha Caster and a computer strong enough to run SC2 while streaming.
Setup Steps:
1. Open XSplit Broadcaster and login
2. Click on one of the Scene's that is not being used in your Scene panel in the lower right
3. Go to File->Add screen region...
4. Click and drag the area that you would like to stream SC2 from
5. Open Alpha Caster and put the overlay and settings panel on your second monitor but space them out so they don't overlap
6. Go to File->Add screen region... again
7. Click on the Alpha Caster overlay window (it should highlight the whole overlay when you move your mouse over it)
8. In the Scene preview window for the XSplit broadcaster resize and position the overlay so that it displays where you want it to
9. Begin streaming!
I hope this helps out those of you who would like to stream your game play using my alpha caster app but don't want it interrupting your game play. You can also use the steps above for any image overlays you may have open with Alpha Caster as well and basically run your whole overlay setup to increase production value for your stream viewers without actually interfering with your games.
Thanks guys!
Achaia
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Great software! But I have one issue. When I add an image that got transparent background, the background is getting white.
Is there a way to fix this?
- KimG
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On April 10 2011 05:38 KimG wrote:
Great software! But I have one issue. When I add an image that got transparent background, the background is getting white.
Is there a way to fix this?
- KimG
Sorry the transparent images are no longer allowed in the app right now. The reason being that it would force you to use a "Capture Layered Windows" option because of the way Windows handles application windows with transparency. This was not available in every streaming/capturing program so I took out the transparency. I've been thinking of adding it back in as an option that is turned off by default but could be turned on if desired. Perhaps I'll look at adding that in soon, but currently transparent images will appear with the white background that you currently see.
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On April 10 2011 05:59 Achaia wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2011 05:38 KimG wrote:
Great software! But I have one issue. When I add an image that got transparent background, the background is getting white.
Is there a way to fix this?
- KimG Sorry the transparent images are no longer allowed in the app right now. The reason being that it would force you to use a "Capture Layered Windows" option because of the way Windows handles application windows with transparency. This was not available in every streaming/capturing program so I took out the transparency. I've been thinking of adding it back in as an option that is turned off by default but could be turned on if desired. Perhaps I'll look at adding that in soon, but currently transparent images will appear with the white background that you currently see.
Ok, thanks!
I would also love to have an option that turns off all the hotkeys, since I will mostly be using this software when I'm playing myself (I dont do casting). I might be blind, but I did not see that option for that.
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On April 10 2011 06:10 KimG wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2011 05:59 Achaia wrote:On April 10 2011 05:38 KimG wrote:
Great software! But I have one issue. When I add an image that got transparent background, the background is getting white.
Is there a way to fix this?
- KimG Sorry the transparent images are no longer allowed in the app right now. The reason being that it would force you to use a "Capture Layered Windows" option because of the way Windows handles application windows with transparency. This was not available in every streaming/capturing program so I took out the transparency. I've been thinking of adding it back in as an option that is turned off by default but could be turned on if desired. Perhaps I'll look at adding that in soon, but currently transparent images will appear with the white background that you currently see. Ok, thanks! I would also love to have an option that turns off all the hotkeys, since I will mostly be using this software when I'm playing myself (I dont do casting). I might be blind, but I did not see that option for that.
That's a great idea! I think it would actually be pretty simple to implement so maybe I can get it in there sometime this week. I'll post an update when I get it added. Thanks for the feedback!
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I saw the post regarding xSplit and having image overlay without seeing the images on your screen. Do you think that's possible in FME 3.1 as well? Would be great if it works in that streaming software too.
ninja edit: VhScrCap + FME 3.1 that is.
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Any response to my problem yet?
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