How to integrate with OBS?

[XenHat]

I currently use EDDiscovery AND EDMC at the same time while I play Elite Dangerous.

I would prefer to use EDMC alone, but I could not find any existing plugin that would convert the JSON data to plain text files for OBS text overlays.

Could we get such functionality, or a workable way of achieving the same result?

[Marginal]

What's OBS?

[Maldor]

Open Broadcaster software. Basically allows for streaming gameplay to twitch or similar service.

[Marginal]

Writing an EDMC plugin to output to OBS should be easy, or at least do-able. But the only reference I can find to text input sources is this, which only talks about plain text not structured JSON. Is there any other documentation I should be looking at?

Other alternatives are:

• set EDMC to use the transparent theme with "Always on top", and set OBS to use Display Capture.
• write a plugin that uses EDMC Overlay to display whatever text you want directly in the game window, and set OBS to use Game Capture.

[XenHat]

But the only reference I can find to text input sources is this, which only talks about plain text not structured JSON.

The way most users I know do this is indeed through plain text. The software monitors the content of a file and displays it as an element. An example would be:

# ship_model.txt
Krait mkII

I could write a C# application that would parse the JSON file repeatedly and split the relevant data into several text files but I think a plugin would be much more convenient.

EDDiscovery has a plugin for this, so it is at least doable in some way, here's an example with system name and nearest body/fallback to system name, and universe coordinates, overlaid with a texture (another OBS element that can be added)

I do not wish to use the EDMC Overlay feature for everything as the data is mostly there for the viewers. That is however an interesting idea for global position at least.

[Marginal]

Please try this plugin and let me know how you get on.

[XenHat]

Thank you very much! It is pretty late and I have to head to bed but so far it seems to be working. I will spend more time reviewing this the next time I play and will post issues/improvements/suggestions on that plugin's bug tracker.

https://imgur.com/2ouzCs0

[Marginal]

Great. Please do.