So lets assume you have Aero activated and can capture the window. If you have to disable Windows-Aero you might run into problems capturing a hidden window that is currently in the background as overlapping windows might get captured. Minimized windows do not receive updates. With Windows-Aero active (transparent taskbar, etc) you can capture "hidden" windows like they would be on top of your screen. On the other hand if you choose to use mIRC or Hexchat you can change every color to your liking and use different themes or just change the font. In my example I used the plugin called "Stylish" for Google Chrome with the Black Theme from. If you are going to use the Twitch popout chat you can style its appearance using a browser plugin and a little script. This way of adding an overlay gives you quite some more options as the above one. Place a picture behind it to create a chat box as seen in my example. This will always show the newest lines of the textfile while you can easily cut off the upper parts which are not needed. OBS offers an option to wrap the text to a "Custom Extent" and keep use Scroll Mode. If you are going to use the logs produced by Hexchat for example, you want to make sure that color codes are stripped and probably also timestamps should be removed. Configure the text to your liking and you will get a result similar to this: In OBS you select "Use text from file" and and link it either to the plugin output or your hexchat logfile. Now after you configured your desired program you only have to select the correct text-file in your Streaming application.
(of course this wont work on a two-pc setup) A normal screen-region/window capture or game capture will not capture this window, so it will only be shown to you. It allows you to show a small transparent window on top of your applications/games so you can see what your viewers are writing to you. And another nice feature is a little overview window, which can be especially handy for users with only one monitor. One other nice feature is the ability to output only the last X lines of chat to a textfile, so you dont have to load the whole logfile. It allows you to enter your Name/Password combination for Twitch and connect to the chat right away. You can find several tutorials for this on the Internet but for mIRC I can recommend this plugin. In this tutorial I will use the chat as an example. mIRC or Hexchat with a Plugin or using the Logfileįirst of all you of course need a running instance of either Hexchat or mIRC connected to your desired chat channel.If you prefer a video version, check this link.
I will explain how to add a chat overlay using the window capture abilty of OBS, as well as using a plugin for mIRC or the logfiles of Hexchat.
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