Over the past year a few people who’ve watched streams I’ve run have asked how I do my overlays. It’s something I’ve actually been sitting on for some time (nearly a year) and now I’ve finally gotten round to releasing it!
StreamControl at it’s core is basically a program that writes an XML file that gets loaded into a SWF file inside XSplit. The result is a fairly easy to manage stream and nicer visuals and animations. Here are some examples of what is possible with it.
Now the first thing people must be asking is “isn’t this exactly what the 8WAYRUN XSplit Panel Writer does?”
Yes and no. Flash allows for much greater flexiblity with how you present data to the viewer. Animations are possible and you’re able to program any amount of logic into your SWFs as you want.
Using Flash of course comes with it’s own set of disadvantages:
More CPU intensive. (it’s actually not much more CPU intensive than the default SWF plugins included with XSplit if at all)
It’s a good amount harder to set up as you want.
You need to know Actionscript to do anything advanced.
On the plus side:
Once it’s set up it’s much easier to manage. No more switching scenes to update your overlays.
It’s of course possible to achieve much prettier results.
You can program logic into your SWF files so it’s possible to say, hide a scoreboard if the player fields are empty. Or load a Flag with 2 character country codes as in the video above. (I plan on releasing the Flag loading scoreboard with source in the future by the way.)
Do check it out if you stream and let me know if you have any feedback. There are a bunch of example SWF files with source for you to play around with on the website.
If you like the software donations are of course appreciated at my website.
wow… im extremely impressed by what you have managed to do. I’m going to try to implement this as best I can and i’ll be giving you shoutouts in my youtube description. I’ve been on the hunt to improve my production quality and I knew someone at shoryuken would have something interesting to show. Thank you very much for releasing this for free!
Added rudimentary error checking
Datasets (aka auto-complete)
Radio buttons
Checkboxes
Fix always on top
Add scrollable tabs
Add placeholder text to lineEdit
New tweet widget
Hello i was trying to use your MKX scoreboard and i followed the directions to the T and it doesnt work in either OBS or XSLPIT for me. All the other scoreboards that you have put out work wonderfull but that one (the one i need most lol) doesn’t. Will you be putting more boards out any time soon ? Is it possble to change it to SWF instead of HTML ? love the work you do by the way.
