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Streaming BW has always been a pain due to the full screen color palette, necessitating windowed mode or some ugly hacks to get it working. I wrote a plugin for OBS (obsproject.com) that captures full screen BW and performs the proper palette conversions. Unfortunately it isn't perfect, for some reason the out of game palettes have incorrect values, but the in-game palettes I tested seemed fine. The cursor will also not be visible in battle.net screens.
Screenshots (demonstrates some broken palettes):
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Download:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/BWCapture.zip
Put it in your 32-bit OBS/plugins/ folder, a new source option called Brood War Capture should then become available. Will not work with w-mode, only normal full screen BW.
Note this isn't tested much at all and is very much still proof-of-concept stage, as I only have a single monitor to work with here it was impossible to tell if this was actually working properly. Let me know!
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wow, this is great. Will it be used for TLS? :D
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Australia7069 Posts
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Australia7069 Posts
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Thanks R1CH! I hope this helps people who've only been able to stream BW in windowed mode so far.
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ASWESOME! Makes me even sader that fucking microsoft doesn't release dx10 for winXP.
EDIT: couldn't get it to work, Win7 x64, screen stays black T_T
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Mine didn't show up on the source list when I right click do you just put the dll in the plugins folder or do you need to make a seperate folder inside it?
Edit:nevermind i restarted my computer and it shows up now.
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from screenshots it seems just 1 color from the palette not working? I don't know if you published the source anywhere, but might be just a tiny oversight someone else might pick out from code review
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nice, but most streamers uses Xsplit... Is there any chance to upgrade your plugin resource for FS?
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Australia7069 Posts
change to OBS, it's better
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I would be curious to see how well this works. I am starting to regret having made the decision to switch to w-mode.
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tried to test it but my GPU isnt supported
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I've been using uscreencapture up until now and it haven't had any issues, aside from the initial regedit to get the reso right. Is there anything specific that this does differently? I noticed that it captures the actual game instead of just a "work-around" that uscreencapture is where it just captures that section of your monitor instead.
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uscreencapture makes me unable to use my webcam, webcam can't capture anything, just black screen only. So this plugin will be the best once its perfected :D
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R1CH coded something for BW.
We´re back baby !!
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
Ill test this when I start streaming again
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Norway214 Posts
Wow, this is amazing! I don't mind the out-of-game palettes being screwed up, however, it seems like perfectly white gets converted to brown in-game. This includes the text messages in the middle of the screen telling you you have too few minerals etc. Otherwise this seems... perfect!
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Ah, which map does that happen on?
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