Transparent patch as overlay in OBS studio?
Hi
I have a livestream from a camera input with OBS Studio, and would like to layer some numberboxes from Max on top. I was wondering if there is a way to make the patch transparent so the patch can be placed above the image instead of a separate window at the side.
Yes, the first step is to set the patcher background colors transparency and second to remove the frame of the window with thispatcher window messages like 'notitle'.
...where the notitle-mode is mandatory to make the opacity value with locked_bgcolor have an effect in max 8.
also, full transparency makes the mouse pass, while 1% opacity (or less, if you use float arguments to thispatcher) does not, so you can kind of choose between the mouse passing or not.
this is usually done in OBS, not max, with filters > chroma key, or luma key
