Profile actions overlay: layouts, groups and style

Where to open it

Go into a profile and click «Overlay» in its header. «Configure Overlay» opens: the live preview on one side and the Layout, Content, Style, Effects, Groups and Platform tabs on the other. At the top you pick the platform you're editing: each one keeps its own layout, what's shown and its URL.

• «Local» URL («This PC»): for your streaming software on this same PC.
• «Cloud» URL: shows up once you sign in and doesn't depend on your local network.
• Next to each URL, one button copies it and another opens it in your browser so you can see how it looks.

The layouts

In Layout you choose how the actions are arranged. Simple is the default, and each layout keeps its own zoom.

• Simple, Stack, Card and Tile: different list and card shapes for each action.
• Compact: a grid of columns by rows; whatever doesn't fit rotates in pages every few seconds.
• Strip and Split: band layouts, a row of same-size items that takes up little height.
• Gifts: just the gift's image, with its action's text on top.
• Matrix: a grid with the action and the gift side by side.

Many actions: fit, pages or scroll

In «How they're shown» you decide what happens when they don't all fit. «Fit» shows every action at once and sizes them to fill the canvas; «Slides (pages)» and «Continuous scroll» show a maximum and cycle the rest. «Canvas ratio» sets the source's shape and the app tells you the recommended size. If «Fit» makes them too small, it suggests splitting them into groups.

One overlay per group

Groups are created from the ⋯ menu in the profile header, under «Groups»: you create them, rename them and assign triggers in bulk. On the overlay's Groups tab, each group has its own URL and uses the same style as the main overlay.

• Open a group: the preview switches to it and you can give it a style of its own, with its own layout, flow, colors and text.
• Anything you leave on «Inherit» follows the main overlay, so whatever you change there reaches it too.
• «Skip already-grouped triggers» removes from the main overlay whatever already shows in a group.
• Deleting a group only removes the label: its triggers stay in the profile.

Content, style and effects

In Content you decide what's shown: the action's name and image, the gift's name and image, the ×N / ⏱ indicator and the chat command with its cost. In Style, the text size, colors, each item's box and the background, with green or magenta chroma if you need it. In Effects:

• Action images: an outline or glow and an animation (pulse, bounce, shake, swing, spin, float or blink).
• Gift images: the same, plus brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, grayscale, sepia and blur filters.
• Animated item background (Pro): aurora, waves, neon grid, stars, snow and more, with its palette, speed and amount.
• «Factory reset» goes back to the default look if the overlay got too busy; it doesn't touch the groups' styles.

General settings or this profile's

By default, every profile shares the «General» settings. With Pro, under «Which settings» you pick «This profile» and that profile gets its own overlay; the rest keep the general one. The URL is the same either way: the overlay always shows the active profile.