Open Brush, Open Blocks, Icosa Gallery•2y ago

Twitch Chat Overlay support

I've uninstalled / reinstalled, I've verified the files, the Twitch overlay works in Tiltbrush, but not in Openbrush and the information in the config files is exactly the same. Then I tried just including the Twitch infomation in the OpenBrush config and that doesn't work either. What's going on here? Is OpenBrush just not supporting Twitch IRC at all? Because if that's the case, please tell me so I can stop trying to fix something that doesn't work in the first place. I've been at this for two hours and nothing seems to be working.

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andybak•2y ago

As far as I can tell Twitch chat support has never been present. i.e. it was removed in the first release of the codebase that Google made when they open sourced it.

mikesky•2y ago

oh, really? It would have been nice for them to mention that in the README 😅

andybak•2y ago

https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush/blob/c5fb8671934fe4f164ce315c675367d46267b1b5/Assets/Scripts/UserConfig.cs#L24

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andybak•2y ago

ctrl+F twitch... I'll update the docs to remove any mentions of it

namespace TiltBrush
{
    public class TwitchChat : BaseChatScript
    {
        void Start()
        {
            ClearChatLines();
            AddLine("Twitch IRC not supported", "<color=red><i>", "</i></color>");
            RefreshChatText();
        }
    }
} // namespace TiltBrush

namespace TiltBrush
{
    public class TwitchChat : BaseChatScript
    {
        void Start()
        {
            ClearChatLines();
            AddLine("Twitch IRC not supported", "<color=red><i>", "</i></color>");
            RefreshChatText();
        }
    }
} // namespace TiltBrush

lol they should have left the config file as it was...

mikesky•2y ago

Should get rid of the icon for the next release too then 😅 does youtube chat still work?

andybak•2y ago

Dunno. We should probably give some TLC to streamer-friendly features. It's good for marketing/awareness etc.

mikesky•2y ago

LIV definitely needs a look at...

andybak•2y ago

was just gonna ask that!

mikesky•2y ago

the refusal of LIV to use OpenXR right now poses a challenge with the whole OpenXR runtime thing some users will be using the oculus runtime, so LIV won't work

andybak•2y ago

Does liv works with steam + openxr?

mikesky•2y ago

Yeah that's fine, as it hooks into SteamVR directly for it's overlays

andybak•2y ago

so - can a quest user who wants to use Liv, use SteamVR+OpenXR?

mikesky•2y ago

Yes that should work, but I think it'll incur a performance hit from the translation layer from non-openxr oculus over to steam, then to OpenXR I noticed some stuttering last time i tried - but maybe that was just link shenanigans! what a mess...

RunesaelOP•2y ago

Aw heck! D: I guess the next question is - does OpenBrush have any plans to support Twitch chat in the future? I’ve just started using VR to paint music (I have synesthesia) and I’d much rather use a program that has active support / more powerful tools. (The line smoothing assist is particularly good!)

andybak•2y ago

I don't use Twitch so you might need to help me understand exactly what you're after. My understanding is that you're streaming live and you use the chat to interact with your viewers. Is that correct? Is it mainly about reading or do you type stuff back? If so - how do you type? I guess you can just reply using voice (doh!) This looks promising: https://github.com/lexonegit/Unity-Twitch-Chat

RunesaelOP•2y ago

I am streaming live, and I do use the chat to interact with my viewers, yep. It's just about reading, I don't need to type back as yeah, I have a mic. :) Gotta be honest with you, I don't know anything about Unity. I'm willing to learn, of course, but I have no idea what to do with this link. ^^;;

andybak•2y ago

That link was more for me than for you! Just trying to get a sense of how much work it would be

RunesaelOP•2y ago

Anything I can do to help re: testing, I'm happy to do. :)

andybak•2y ago

that really helps. what would really swing it however would be if there was more than one of you! let me explain a bit better 😉 Do you know anyone else that would also benefit from this? Anyone that either streams now or would stream if we had Twitch support? It really helps if the "benefit" part of "cost vs benefit" is nicely weighted It's definitely something we should do and something we'd like to do at some point. I'm just trying to work out how to get it higher up on our overly long to-do list

RunesaelOP•2y ago

Hrm... genuinely, and unfortunately no. VR is kind of a small field, and VR artists are... as far as I can tell, even less common? Which is to say, I don't know anyone else who does art in VR, personally. I'm sure folks are out there.

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