IA is having a resurgence in our state, at least when our 2 neighboring cities join forces. I decided to get a tripod and record our Store Championship tournaments, and this is the first round of the first tournament (of 3!).

Will mostly be Skirmish and X-Wing to start, but look forward to seeing some 2v2 and campaign games in the coming months once store champs season concludes.

Sounds good. Looking forward to it!

I love how you display the lists they are playing.

That helps big time!

PS - genius use of headhunter.

Looking forward to trying out that combo myself.

The CPO on the bottom is a 0-0-0, right? I’ve considered doing that for a friend for a local tourney.

54 minutes ago, Fightwookies said:

The CPO on the bottom is a 0-0-0, right? I’ve considered doing that for a friend for a local tourney.

It's actually the C-3po figure with a chrome paint job. The 000 has his arm positions reversed, with the right arm raised.

Technically you're not supposed to interchange the figures for tournament play, but considering most people can't tell them apart, you'd probably be fine, and I've actually considered this too for if I need to lend out a Scum list to someone when I'm playing Rebels.

2 hours ago, Tvboy said:

It's actually the C-3po figure with a chrome paint job. The 000 has his arm positions reversed, with the right arm raised.

Technically you're not supposed to interchange the figures for tournament play, but considering most people can't tell them apart, you'd probably be fine, and I've actually considered this too for if I need to lend out a Scum list to someone when I'm playing Rebels.

Sure. Yeah, I just saw the silver paint and started speculating

Can you put a Merc attachment on a rebel figure? It looks like headhunter is on chopper

12 minutes ago, buckero0 said:

Can you put a Merc attachment on a rebel figure? It looks like headhunter is on chopper

Yes you can, attachments are limited by the lists faction, but not by the figure. Headhunter on Chopper is an established combo.

2 hours ago, buckero0 said:

Can you put a Merc attachment on a rebel figure? It looks like headhunter is on chopper

· When deploying units during skirmish setup, if a player has one
or more "Attachment" cards included in his army, he places each
of these cards on one of his non-upgrade Deployment cards.

You can only include skirmish upgrades of your own affiliation, but there is no restriction on which deployment cards you skirmish upgrade attachments are assigned to.

Great video! love the overlays. Keep it coming!

2nd game is up. Cleaned up the overlay and now includes deployment card images to indicate which group is currently activating. I find that especially during long activations and while resolving out-of-activation attacks, it can become confusing to the viewer (usually me) who exactly is activating and what is going on. Also added end of round and objective announcements and a little bit of cinematic flair in the sound effects since Vader's involved.

Your work is fantstic! Thanks

I suppose it takes a lots of time in editing. If i can i would suggest a couple of improvement. I have no idea if they are possible ore if they require a lots of works more then you spend now.

1) would be nice if the text's overlay changes color when the unit is activated to remind the exhaust units; even a red dot close to the name would be enough. This because with the overlay is not easy to understand it.

2) would be nice to have damage counter close to the overlay to understand how many damage every units have.

thanks

Fabio

I really want to include damage and exhausted markers in the overlay, but right now that would drag out the editing time ten times longer because I make the overlay in photoshop and have to make a new image file every time the score changes and then sync that in the video to the right time. Having to do that every time a figure takes damage is a hurtle I’m not quite ready to tackle yet. On top of that you can mostly see the damage tokens and activation tokens on the cards next to the map

The overlay is the thing I’ve gotten the most feedback on so far though, so I will keep working to improve it. In the next video I’m working on I’ve squared off the colored bars, and I’m thinking the players names don’t need to be on the screen for the entire match maybe.

I don't think you have to reinvent the wheel here. X-wing has a few out of the box overlays for streams as far as I know. Would be easier to adapt one of those than redo everything from scratch. Might not be a 100% fit, but if it means more content due to lower time requirement that would be a plus.

8 hours ago, Isnigu said:

I don't think you have to reinvent the wheel here. X-wing has a few out of the box overlays for streams as far as I know. Would be easier to adapt one of those than redo everything from scratch. Might not be a 100% fit, but if it means more content due to lower time requirement that would be a plus.

I have looked at adapting their overlays for my needs, but The X-Wing overlays only works for X-Wing unfortunately. It uses the XWS format to put lists on the screen, doesn’t have activation indicators, and shows ship, hull and shield icons to track damage that make no sense in IA and would make it very obvious that I was trying to use an X-Wing overlay without a ton of editing, at which point it just makes more sense to use a tool that I’m already familiar with.

My buddy made a streaming overlay for X-wing that he also adapted for Imperial Assault skirmish. You might want to check it out. @kingargyle

3 hours ago, defkhan1 said:

My buddy made a streaming overlay for X-wing that he also adapted for Imperial Assault skirmish. You might want to check it out. @kingargyle

Omg I had not seen this one, you are awesome!

So I installed Xstreamer and kind of tried to play around with it, and it is not user friendly at all. Also the overlay screenshot featured on the website is not especially... aesthetically pleasing. The only video tutorial I found for the program is for version 0.0.2 from almost 2 years ago. Might not be the answer I was hoping for. Is there a better tutorial out there for how to actually use the program?

15 hours ago, Tvboy said:

So I installed Xstreamer and kind of tried to play around with it, and it is not user friendly at all. Also the overlay screenshot featured on the website is not especially... aesthetically pleasing. The only video tutorial I found for the program is for version 0.0.2 from almost 2 years ago. Might not be the answer I was hoping for. Is there a better tutorial out there for how to actually use the program?

TVBoy, I'm the author of XStreamer, and the best introduction on how to use it is to start with with the X-Wing tutorial, the same items in that tutorial will apply to the Imperial Assault version. The overlays are configurable but you do need to know a bit of HTML and some programming logic to use the Freemarker Templates to construct your own.

The source code for X-Streamer is available free for anybody to want to make changes to. I haven't had time to go through and do an Imperial Assault specific tutorial, but the X-Wing tutorial and Imperial Assault side work the same. You do need to use TableTop Admiral to export the lists and then Import them for each player.

Source Code for X-Streamer is available at: https://github.com/NineWorlds/xstreamer

X-Wing Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkQsfaRIcc&feature=youtu.be

11 hours ago, kingargyle said:

TVBoy, I'm the author of XStreamer, and the best introduction on how to use it is to start with with the X-Wing tutorial, the same items in that tutorial will apply to the Imperial Assault version. The overlays are configurable but you do need to know a bit of HTML and some programming logic to use the Freemarker Templates to construct your own.

The source code for X-Streamer is available free for anybody to want to make changes to. I haven't had time to go through and do an Imperial Assault specific tutorial, but the X-Wing tutorial and Imperial Assault side work the same. You do need to use TableTop Admiral to export the lists and then Import them for each player.

Source Code for X-Streamer is available at: https://github.com/NineWorlds/xstreamer

X-Wing Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkQsfaRIcc&feature=youtu.be

Thank you for the resources, eventually I will need to learn how to use this stuff if I want this channel to keep going.

Been working on the overlay some more in the mean time. Figured out how to add multiple lines of text over the video without having to go into photoshop every time something changes, so tracking damage on the overlay should be pretty easy to do now. This is what the current version of the overlay looks like. The deployment cards will pop up on the sides when a figure is activating just like in the last video. The health numbers look a little wonky but I just need to straighten them out. Also spoilers for the next video I'm working on. Adding things like ready/exhaust or conditions on top of that will probably be too much, and I'm hoping viewers can just look at the figures or the cards on the table for that info.

Edit: just noticed Ahsoka has the wrong health, oops.

New video is up, and the new overlay along with it, now tracking figure health in addition to the score and slimmed down for less overall screen clutter. Now that I'm doing almost everything in the video editing software instead of photoshop, I should be able to edit these in hours instead of days.

This is pretty cool. My only suggestions would be an initiative indicator and if possible mark who is exhausted already.

Other than that though, that's a really big improvement on the videos where you can't tell who has what or what damage.

On 7/25/2018 at 10:48 AM, DTDanix said:

This is pretty cool. My only suggestions would be an initiative indicator and if possible mark who is exhausted already.

Other than that though, that's a really big improvement on the videos where you can't tell who has what or what damage.

Your wishes have been granted! I thought it would be impossible, but I was actual able to make a pretty efficient process for updating health, activation indicators and initiative markers without having to ever having to alt-tab out of the editing software.

Thanks. Keep them coming please. There is no IA scene where I live and so its great to see real interaction.