[Pre-Alpha] Working on a Tournament Shoutcaster Overlay, need some ideas!
Hi everyone!
So, right now I'm in the middle of working on a program that Amateur Shoutcasters can use to improve their streams. The overlay will soon-enough be able to do it all... Include team monikers, current team scores, apply exciting Objective information, show tournament name & show a tournament icon!
Unfortunately, due to technological problems with Windows, it will never be as simple as downloading and running through OBS alongside League of Legends... Windows will only pass keyboard/mouse input to one application at a time, so you can't run both on the same computer. The user will absolutely need two computers and a capture card connecting them. Good news is that my application is quite lightweight, so that second computer doesn't need to be very powerful!
So, as I was saying, right now I'm in Pre-Alpha. As you noticed with the icons above, the greenscreen effect is none-too-pretty for them. This was something I could not tweak out of OBS (as I was trying to go with a semi-transparent effect), so I'll probably have to leave the icons fully visible at all times. Not what I hoped for, so we'll see.
The Icons currently represent the first objective of it's type being capture by a team: First Blood, First Tower, First Dragon, First Inhibitor and First Baron.
So, here's what I'm looking for: any ideas on what other shoutcasters may want to have included with the application! I'm still quite open to ideas, especially since I'm trying to use it - not just for my personal tournament stream, but also as part of my application toward a Game Design/coding internship.
Thanks all, I'm looking forward to your thoughts!