RTSS Overlay Editor Megathread

.ovl overlays only show in my games while the Overlay Editor is open. How can I show the .ovl overlays by just launching RTSS?

Thanks!

 

Hi All,

How can I go about inserting custom animations?
So far I've made my own sample.png in the overlay folder and inserted it into the overlay editor (so far so good)

Two problems I've come across are:

1. With my sprite inserted when switching to a game, it defaults back to the original sample.png

2. I can't find the animation timer as found in his video @4:40

 

Hypertext Tags

I created a List of all Hypertext Tags and what they do. Includes macros.

 

Did something change in a recent HwInfo update? I'm no longer seeing any data sources available from it.

 

That's a shame. At least I was able to roll back to 6.42 without issue.

 

UPDATE- After tinkering with afterburner for a while more I almost have it perfect, Just one more thing I would like to change. I have this where the real time fps is in the picture below, however I can't manage to move the FPS text any further to the right without all the units and values moving as well. I would like the FPS text to be centered along with the counter


Does anyone know how I would go about configuring something like this?



I've spent hours trying to figure out how to replicate this image using afterburner and failing miserably.
I couldn't get the larger centered text in between the groups, I cant figure out how to align by center nor can I figure out how to get the lines so close for the other text. I'm also stumped on how they have an inverted graph for frametime (dips down rather than up).
That's when I discovered that RTSS has an overlay editor. Sadly I also seem to be too dense to figure that out either... Is it possible to edit the current OSD that afterburner already implemented? if not, is there a way to hide it in the editor?

Finally, can someone point me to easy guides or help me out in replicating the above overlay? That's my main goal but I'm stumped and pretty beaten trying to figure this all out.

 

@DuskRider To me it appears you are using the MSI AB Layout Editor and not the RTSS Overlay Editor Plugin. This thread is about the latter one.

 

@Andy_K But I'm asking if my current afterburner layout can be implemented into the overlay editor so i can edit the few parts that I can't figure out with afterburner? Is that not allowed?

 

Oh, right. Shouldn't have stopped reading after

Well, yes it is replicable and no, not to my knowledge, is there a way to "import" MSI AB Layout to RTSS Overlay Editor and refine the edit there. You have to build it from scratch.
How to do it: Read the first post of this thread and follow the links to watch those videos.

What do you mean by this?
Do you want to hide the MSI AB OSD Layout and only display the RTSS OSD Layout? If so in MSI AB disable all checkmarks "display in OSD" on the monitoring tab.

 

Hi,

I am about to add a new external data source (the dialog itself calls it data provider later on) to the RTSS overlay editor. So far I found the SharedMemory example, but from that I could only derive how to add new text strings to the Overlay.
What I need is to generate a new data source like the existing ones (Internal HAL, AIDA64, HWiNFO, MSI Afterburner and Windows Performance Counter) that can add say 50 new possible data macros the user can select from (fan speeds, temperatures, etc.). Can someone please point me to a working example in order for me not to be required to reverse engineer the OverlayEdtior plugin code (which might also work, but starting from an example would be way easier I guess).

 

Hi

I'm having a problem with the barchart graph style that I hope someone could help with.

For some reason it adds a space/margin to the sides which I want to remove. In the videos in the OP the barchart if filled without any gaps.

I am measuring CPU 0-7 core usage using HWINFO dataset.

https://imgur.com/fq2owqQ
https://imgur.com/xNSVuy1
https://imgur.com/GcBO9kU

Thank you

 

@Bhudda set margin to 0 and if you want to have all graphs in one layer, define the graph style to use in the first and then just add the other core graphs...
In my screenshot all cores (in blue, in the top right) but the first are at 100%

 

Thank you that worked a treat.

 

@Andy_K What correction formula do you use to get percentages to display like 93.2%?

 

For a longer explanation look up my post on the first page, it's RTSS Overlay Editor Megathread, Post #4

 

Sup everybody. Finally got around to customizing my own overlays and thought I'd share. Screenshots don't show them off very well at all. They also don't show the colored text/graphs for temps/usages. I started from the sample.ovi that Unwinder provided and went from there. Only need RTSS and Afterburner to fill the data. Enjoy!

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