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Wags hoped on my stream the other day and mentioned tooltips and training highlight boxes fixes are in the works and should be fixed soon. Obviously no release date, but its good to know they are working on resolving it.

I understand that what is seen on the desktop is a projection of what is seen in the left eye. This part is fine, what I want to know is if we will ever be able to have a desktop resolution mirror instead of the portrait view we get now. This would be very helpful for streaming, and recording in VR. My current solution works fine for now, but I'm just wondering if there are plans to look into doing this. I've seen it done with other games, so I'm sure its possible.

Yes, sound is spatial, I often use the sound to figure out where a helo, or plane is relative to me, turn my head, figure out which ear got louder.

Version 0.0.6-alpha released https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/releases Features and Fixes Fixed a bug with username casing. Twitch2DCS will always use a lower case username to login with.

Ya found that out the other day and fixed it, just need to do a release. Thanks though.

I totally agree about VR, I have only ever played DCS with VR, and when trying to do some mission making for the Spitfire, I was playing in 2d, and I could not for the life of my take off without quickly smashing into the ground. I do not usually (sometimes i get overzealous) in VR, much more obvious control and a better reaction time when you feel like you are really sitting in the pit.

Awesome work man! Really Awesome! I just starting using this and already see a huge potential. The ability to do so much with such little effort is amazing! This is going to make mission building not only easier but I feel like it will change how missions are made, allow them to be more interactive and less linear. Really great job, looking forward to getting some really innovative missions off the ground with this!

Did you add it to Saved Games/DCS/Config/Twitch2DCSConfig.lua? It should look like this config = { ["username"] = "[b]jabbers[/b]", -- Your twitch username ["oathToken"] = "[b]oauth:12345sasdwerrr[/b]", -- Go to https://twitchapps.com/tmi/ connect your account and generate a key. Copy paste the full value including the "oauth:" example: "oauth:2mwce4mdsgasddg3ml99k3phwa9l7" ["useMutiplayerChat"] = false, -- Please be aware that twitch chat will only work in muliplayer. In the future I'm planning on making a first time setup step when you start DCS, but need to wrap my head around a few things with DCS UI first. Hopefully the above example gives you an idea of how it should look, and its just typed in incorrectly.

Can you send me the logs from both dcs.log and twitch2dcs.log (if it exists)? The should both be located in Saved Games\DCS\Logs. Also what version are you using? I just released a new on last night. Additionally, what client version. I believe this only currently works on the latest 1.5 client code. ED made some changes that I do not believe are backward compatible for UI stuff.

Version 0.0.5-alpha released https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/releases Features and Fixes More changes to user color Fixed viewer count, for real this time Installation Upgrade Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "Upgrade" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. New Installation Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "New Installation" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Open the file Twitch2DCSConfig.lua in the Config folder with your favorite text editor. Add your Twitch username Add your Twitch oauth key from TwitchApps.com make sure you include the "oauth:" text Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame.

Twitch is basically a IRC backend, so it should work for anything with the same backend. I have not implemented all the commands, just JOIN/PART/PRIVMSG, so anything else would need to be coded.

Thanks! Yeah as soon as I made this I realized the potential for SRS and created a issue on Ciribobs github :). I was pretty amazed that no one else had done any custom UI stuff with dcs

Version 0.0.4-alpha released https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/releases Features and Fixes Fixed a bug caused by the latest DCS update that caused major frame drops Fixed random colors again Fixed viewer count Installation Upgrade Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "Upgrade" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. New Installation Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "New Installation" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Open the file Twitch2DCSConfig.lua in the Config folder with your favorite text editor. Add your Twitch username Add your Twitch oauth key from TwitchApps.com make sure you include the "oauth:" text Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame.

Version 0.0.3-alpha released https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/releases Features and Fixes Viewer count now shows at all times User chat color is now sequential instead of random Installation Upgrade Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "Upgrade" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. New Installation Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "New Installation" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Open the file Twitch2DCSConfig.lua in the Config folder with your favorite text editor. Add your Twitch username Add your Twitch oauth key from TwitchApps.com make sure you include the "oauth:" text Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame.

Awesome, glad that worked out, once i get through this next iteration of Twitch2DCS i should have time to help bring over some of the control functionality.

Yup already created a bug with that information. Im in the process of refactoring all of this now so adding this is less trivial. Right now I just create a TCP connection to twitch's irc backend and wait for messages in realtime. Youtube on the other hand is a web api, which means i have to make requests. The downside to that is requests can take time to process I would need to make the request and receive the response within a frame call. Doing this the wrong way is going to really destroy framerate. So i need to give it some thought, or find someone whos done something simular in DCS.

Hmm, I can possibly do that. Would have to look at their API and see how complex it is. Give me some time, this wont be a huge priority for me unfortunately but I will definately evaluate it's difficulty

Version 0.0.2-alpha released https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/releases New Features Random colors assigned to each user in chat (simular to twitch) Colors are customizable in Config/Twitch2DCSConfig.lua Ability to use Multiplayer chat instead of Twitch chat. Using Multiplayer chat will only allow you to see twitch chat during multiplayer games. Installation Upgrade Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "Upgrade" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. New Installation Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "New Installation" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Open the file Twitch2DCSConfig.lua in the Config folder with your favorite text editor. Add your Twitch username Add your Twitch oauth key from TwitchApps.com make sure you include the "oauth:" text Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame.

Interesting, hopefully just a false positive.

Greetings, As promised I wanted to give everyone access to a mod I made to make my VR streaming life easier. Description Twitch2DCS was primarily created so that DCS World streamers who played in VR could interact with Twitch chat without the need to take the HMD off, or have Twitch chat hooked up to a text-to-speech engine. By allowing the chat to be visible within DCS the immersion of the game does not have to be broken, and VR streamers can still interact with the audience. Twitch2DCS is not restricted to VR users, it will work for single monitor and surround setups. Current Features Separate in-game chat window (similar to multiplayer chat) Easily installed to Saved Games directory In-game twitch chat communicate both read and write Join/Part messages Customizable hotkey Not dependent on mission start. The UI exists in every aspect of DCS (Main Menu, Config, Mission Editor, In-Mission) allowing you to always be connected to your twitch audience. Random colors assigned to each user in chat (simular to twitch) Colors are customizable in Config/Twitch2DCSConfig.lua Ability to use Multiplayer chat instead of Twitch chat. Using Multiplayer chat will only allow you to see twitch chat during multiplayer games. Viewer count based on how many users have joined or spoke in chat. Installation Upgrade Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "Upgrade" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. New Installation Get the latest version of Twitch2DCS from here. Make sure you download the "New Installation" package. Extract the zip to your Saved Games DCS folder (C:\Users\ username \Saved Games\DCS) Open the file Twitch2DCSConfig.lua in the Config folder with your favorite text editor. Add your Twitch username Add your Twitch oauth key from TwitchApps.com make sure you include the "oauth:" text Example of what the config should look like (Edits are in red): config = { ["username"] = "[b][color="Red"]jabbers[/color][/b]", -- Your twitch username ["oathToken"] = "[b][color="red"]oauth:1K5JHN849HNVQA59[/color][/b]", -- Go to https://twitchapps.com/tmi/ connect your account and generate a key. Copy paste the full value including the "oauth:" example: "oauth:2mwce4mdsgasddg3ml99k3phwa9l7" ["useMutiplayerChat"] = false, -- Please be aware that twitch chat will only work in muliplayer.[/Code] Launch DCS and enjoy communicating with Twitch from ingame. [b]Ingame Images[/b] Read mode: Write mode: Ingame VR screenshot: Please report any bugs, issues or feature suggestions here https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs/issues This is currently in its infancy and an alpha, so it may have issues.

I started pushing some stuff to github, mostly to back it up, its no where near a "working release" I'll get to that tonight or this weekend. Have to go through and make it configurable on the 3rd party app code because its all hard coded to my stuff (oath, username, etc). You can see how I did the dcs side of things though https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs

Here is an image of this working if anyone wants to see

I got this working, will post my solution and release the mod soon. Need to finish testing, and make sure its solid first, but so far so good.

OK, maybe this needs another avenue of attack. So currently, I use the standard Export.lua hook LuaExportAfterNextFrame to poll the udp port for data sent from the twitch client. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong since it seems impossible to access a way to show this information in chat. After some though it would seem that I could just include this same code in mul_chat.lua to achieve the same result, and have access to multiplayer chat. However, I'm stuck trying to find a way to poll the udp connection since LuaExportAfterNextFrame doesnt exist. I looked into timer.scheduleFunction but this doesnt seem to exist, or I am doing something wrong. So the question now is, how do I schedule a callback to poll the udp connection? Obviously a while loop would be ineffective as it would be blocking.