Hi all,

i have slowly been getting streaming equipment together, laptop, camera/tripod, microphone, the plan being to put out a regular stream of matches just for kicks and maybe catch a local tournament or two.

What i dont have is an overlay for the stream to show ship setup and damage inflicted during the game,

Theres some excellent overlays on the streams on youtube, however i dont have the skills to make one myself,

call this charity or just plain begging but do any of those talented overlay designers have any discarded/unloved overlays and a quick tutorial they can share with the community? the easier to use the better please,

lots of great resources available out there for x wing, a streaming template would also be one of them,

any info / resources / feedback appreciated please,

many thanks

J

Bump. I have this same question.

I've been fiddling with this: https://test.tabletop.to/xwstream if you'd like to give it a try?

Straightforward: just load in two XWS files and the rest of the UI control is click based.

Works best loaded into stream software as a window capture, can setup like in the attached screenshot.

Just realized I put the wrong link in! should be https://test.tabletop.to/xwstream

Could you make up a tutorial on how to get it to work with OBS? I tried Windows Source and Browser Source, and neither works.

Hi Krunck - I'll see what I can write up later tonight for you.

You want to use the "Window Source" option to capture the browser window and if you find the browser window is just coming through as a black screen you may need to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings.

My little hobby project is an overlay generator called xhud ( https://github.com/sirjorj/xhud ). I will say right up front: it is not as user-friendly as the one shown above! It is a unix command-line based program that generates an image that is transparent except for the squads on the left and right side. As the game is running, you can enter commands to change the gamestate (+/- shield and hull, enable/disable ships when destroyed or deployed, etc...). For the programming types, the code is on github. I also have builds available for macOS and linux, and if you have Windows 10 with the bash-on-windows thing installed, the linux build works there too (see the README on the github link above for details).

I fully realize that a command line X-Wing overlay generator caters to a subset of a subset of people, but it is what I wanted to make so i made it!

I do think it could be useful in cases where someone is streaming a tournament from a location that is not near the gaming table. Someone with a separate laptop (or even tablet) could have a wifi connection to the streaming computer and run the program remotely (ssh'ed into the streaming machine) and update the gamestate from the table itself where they can see exactly what happened.

Anyway, again, this is not for everyone, but it is an option if you know your way around a unix command line or are willing to learn.

I really should make a tutorial video sometime...

UPDATE: I have made a lot of changes since the last build (v0.4) and I’m waiting for Guns for Hire to drop before releasing 0.5. For this reason, some of the documentation may not match because it is actually ahead of the last build.

I have released a v0.4+ build that has all the new stuff I've added since the last release went out a couple of months ago. I kind of like the idea of doing the '+' incremental builds to get new features out there before I commit to a major release. The idea is that the '+' builds will be removed when the next '+' build or version is released.

Info/Source here: https://github.com/sirjorj/xhud

Builds here: http://sirjorj.com/jorj/xhud.html

Hi im trying you use the TTT overlay i have OBS and XSplit and i cant seem to get it to work i just get a black screen when i use window source. any help would be muchly appreciated.

Hey there, if you're using Chrome, the black screen is caused by hardware acceleration. If you disable hardware acceleration it should start appearing in OBS.

https://www.technize.net/google-chrome-disable-hardware-acceleration

Cheers!

Dennis

These overlays are great but I was wondering if there was one out there that dealt with Damage Cards so that when a critical pops up I can show the viewers the card or is there a way to add the name of the crit to a specific ship?