Event based twitch chat alert
I use the Browser Source in LightStream to get everything from O.E to show up on mobile & VODs.
( hate that I have to "unlock" URL source everytime i stream. but loving O.Es editing/function capabilities)
Aight to the point.. Thing is the Twitch chat alert doesnt seem to be working, as you can see it is nested in a main layer, yet the nested follow alert works (last time I tested). I have also tried to use it as its own overlay project but it being nested wasnt the issue.
What setting s do i have wrong, if any??
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What did you set as the Message pattern?
A period / . /
do you want all messages to be displayed if so remove the period, the message pattern will only show messages with a period
should i put " kappa " ( idk if it needs to be capitalized ) in its place or make a whole new layer to default the message pattern back to kappa? Also would the chat alert not activate if the account commenting was on the twitch app??
do you only want certain messages to be display?
if you put kappa there then only messages that are kappa will be displayed
your using lightstream to display your stuff so mobile would be able to see the messages, even if you werent and you was using the twitch app it would still work if a mobile user commented they just wouldnt be able to see it
yeah, when a new comment is entered I want that individual comment and/or username to be displayed. like, i have one layer for the chat alert to only display a background image & the username but have another layer next to that alert thats just the chat display hoping that the chat display layer will be from the username display layer ( i assume " slow-mode" is if multiple comments are being entered back to back to prevent overlapping the displayed alerts )
so should i only put kappa in the message pattern, bc idk what kappa architecture is?
kappa is just a display,
if you want all messages to show dont put anything in the message pattern, just leave it blank, message pattern is a filter. if you put a message in the message pattern it will only show messages that match the message patternsays, "please resolve errors before continuing" "String must contain at least 1 character(s) " So I put a space. ( I know this may seem picking / nitty gritty but what if a comment is only one word?? )
Can you send a screenshot of the error
I think the error might be something else cause nothing on my overlay uses pattern match at all
This is why I'm here to help with problems that people are having no matter how trivial you may think your problem is im here to help with them, theres more then likly someone else that has the same problem
can i ask why your using event based chat alerts?
for when i have the BRB layer activated ( when im streaming Session: Skate Sim, atleast. ) the viewer will see who just followed and who's commenting in chat and what ( which in the video in my post is the silhouette on the left & yellow words next to it. )
you can use the content>type>twitch chat widget and just put that above your brb layer and that chat will show on your brb aswell or you can add the chat directly to your brb layer to show on your brb
i created a event based chat alert and its defaults to kappa in all lower case
not a fan of that style, lol i seen the event-based > twitch chat to have individual comments pop up on screen and came up with the silhouette design.
ive never used the event based chat alert so you'll have to wait for marc to reply when he has some free time but i would set it back to kappa in all lower case untel marc can respond at least then you can save all the progress youve done on the overlay
will do and no worries!
Thanks for going over this with me tho and so late in the day! lol
3am here but im usually up tell 5-6am anyways
oh f*** lol, i feel ya tho. Im a night owl as well.
If you put a period for Message pattern, only messages containing periods will trigger the alert.
If you want to match all messages, you must use regular expression and set the Message pattern to
/./ (including forward slashes).
If you do it correctly, Message pattern should change to Message pattern regex.
You can find out more about regular expressions here:
https://overlay.expert/?support_query=regular+expressionsSo i tried reading through the regular expressions and i didnt really understand majority of it. im trying to filter out commands bc they active my chat overlay, what would be the expression to disregard a chat comment with a " ! " at the beginning of a word? ( ex. !commandword ) Yet still have the chat overlay activate with normal words.
To match everything but messages that start with a
!, try /^[^!]/Thank you sir!
Kinda looks like an emoji 😅
Can two layers have the same visibility Chat Command? ( ex. !drink ) I have to have the top layer hidden until the bottom one is activated. If Nested Layers could have Nested Layers, " Chat Head " would be in " brb ".
yes they can, it will activate both of them if there both set to the same chat command
Hmm. Something isnt popping off then, (along with a nested follow alert in " brb " ). The image I have for the brb layer appears but thats about it.
if you have brb and chat heads toggle command set to !drink when you use that command it will activate both of them
I think it might be the Animation settings in the Visibility section. Chat Head has the animations in " Alerts " set but also in Visibility
try moving Chat Head below Brb
It wouldnt be seen. the brb image covers the screen.
why set the animation in both?
I dont even remember doing it. 😅
1 could be messing with the other, i would try setting one of them to none and see if that changes anything
So i made a whole new " Chat Head " andwheni went to set the visibility command and the animation setting was already set. (matching the Alert animation settings.) So i wouldnt think thats the issue.
The animation settings under Alerts and Visibility are the same
If both layers have the same command, they should both toggle
ok. got everything made, ill test it later. Got another question. If i have two follow alerts ( one primary layer and one nested in " brb " layer if i set the command for the visibility for primary as the opposite of the brb will that allow the nested follow alert to display when triggered? bc right now the nested follow does appear when i test w/ a test dummy account.
The nested follow alert layer is showing even if the parent is hidden?
No, I dont have a visibility command set for the nested follow. but when i enter the command for parent to display ( since its a static image), the nested layer doesnt appear when activated by a new follow from a user account.
OK let me test
So im actually streaming using the overlay in discussion and 1 or 4 Alerts work. idk why the Chat Msg isnt diplaying, it is its own layer but using the same command as my "Always Shown" Alert. Question about follow Alerts, does O.E only register a user to follow once? ( on my other Projects) I can follow/unfollow multiple times (for testing purposes) but it will only display the first time i follow.
Yes, to avoid abuse, only the first follow is shown
Use Stream preview to test multiple follows