InstantClone 0.1.17: Twitch alerts you design, goals and subathon timers

Hey everyone, s1moscs here.

0.1.16 put alerts on your stream. This one hands you the pen: every alert is now a design you can take apart and build again, your stream gets goals and subathon timers, and the OBS dock shows everything that happens, with a Skip button for when you need it.

Seven ready-made designs made of layers. Bigger alerts for bigger cheers. Goal bars that fill as subs come in. Folders you drag integrations into. Let's go through it.

Alerts you design

Every alert now plays a design made in the Overlay Studio: its picture, its title, its words and its card are separate layers, each with its own way in and out. One browser source in OBS still plays them all.

• Seven ready-made designs, built from layers: Island, Signal, Banner, Bubble, Minimal, Paper and Cinema. Move a part, restyle it, delete it, or start your own from one of them.
• The viewer's words on stream. A resub shows the viewer's message and a cheer what they wrote, under the card, up to three lines. The Cheer100s are left out.
• New motions: wipe on, shutter, grow from a dot, stamp and boing, plus words that decode from scrambled letters or type themselves in.
• Each alert picks its design right in Integrations, as tiles. One click, or Use on every alert here.
• A design has its own sound, a built-in one or your own upload.
• The Alerts page is your designs, with Edit in Studio, Use for every alert, Duplicate and Send a test.

Note

Your look from before comes with you. The first time you open Integrations or the Alerts page, your old alerts look becomes a design called "My alerts", with its place, size, font, colours, sound and entrance. A look with custom CSS keeps its exact card. And if your OBS source still has ?at=top from 0.1.15, alerts stay at the top.

Bigger alerts for bigger moments

• Only from an amount. A cheer, raid, gift or resub can play only from an amount up: 500 bits, 10 viewers...
• Bigger ones. On any alert, add up to three bigger versions, each with its own design, sound and words. A 100 bit cheer gets the usual card, a 10,000 bit cheer gets the cinema treatment.
• Hype Twitch alerts, new in the catalog, comes with them built in: cheers from 1,000 and 10,000 bits, raids from 50 viewers and gift bombs from 10 and 50 subs play the Banner or Cinema design, louder and longer.

Tip

Hype Twitch alerts is meant instead of Twitch alerts. With both on, every event would play twice, and the dashboard tells you.

Goals, timers and subathons

The Overlay tab now has a Goals and timers page.

• Goals count subs (new, resubs and gifted), follows, bits, or only what you add, toward a target. Start from 0 every stream or keep counting, set it by hand ("Road to 1,000" starting at 874), nudge it with +1 and -1.
• Timers count down, and subs, bits and follows can add time: a subathon. Tier 2 and 3 subs can add 2 and 5 times as much, with an optional limit.
• On stream in one click. "Put it on stream", then Add to OBS. The bar fills smoothly, pops when the goal is reached, and a timer shows the time someone just added.
• Every part is a layer in the Studio, and any text can say {{goal.subs}} or {{timer.subathon}}.
• Integrations can use them: a new Goal or timer step, and triggers for a goal is reached and a timer runs out.
• Restarts lose nothing. Where each goal and timer stands is saved, and InstantClone restarting mid-stream isn't counted as a new stream.

Events in the OBS dock

A new Events widget lists what happened on stream, newest first.

• Every follow, sub, cheer and raid from Twitch alerts, plus anything your own integrations add with the new Dock event step.
• Filter by group: Follows, Subs, Bits, Raids...
• Replay an alert on stream, or Skip alert to end the one playing now (its sound too) and bring on the next.
• Stream log in the dock, new in the catalog, lists your stream's own moments: going live and ending, crashes and recoveries, platforms dropping and coming back, delay changes, highlights and chapters.

Folders for integrations

• Drag an integration onto a folder, onto "Not in a folder", or onto the "new folder" spot that opens while you drag.
• Folders fold (and remember it), rename in place, and can be removed without losing what was in them.
• Search finds folder names too.

Chat commands that really run

Twitch stopped running commands sent as chat messages, so InstantClone now asks Twitch's API instead. A chat step starting with /timeout {user} 10m, /ban, /unban, /shoutout, /announce or /me just works.

• Viewers can never pick who gets moderated. A ban or timeout of anyone but the viewer themself ({user}) only runs from a command just your mods can use.
• A new "Stream title and category" step, so mods can have !settitle and !setgame. Type the category loosely: "valo" finds VALORANT.
• Up to 256 steps per integration, up from 64.

Note

Logged in to Twitch before this version? Chat commands need your OK once: the Integrations tab and Connections show Log in again.

Fixes

A few you might have hit:

• A Twitch login that just ran out renews itself. After the PC slept, a chat command or channel points step could ask you to log out and in. It now gets a fresh login and runs again.
• A follow counts once a day per person. Follow, unfollow, follow again no longer sets off the alert every time.
• Restore built-ins restores only those. It used to delete every overlay you had made.
• A goal's or timer's overlay stays on its card after you rename it in the Studio.
• AV1 and HEVC from OBS. The InstantClone service no longer forces OBS back to H.264, and the warning names any destination that can't play what you send.
• Overlays update in OBS as you save, no refreshing the browser source by hand.
• A shared overlay file can't run code in the dashboard, and a missing overlay's error no longer shows your Windows user name.

Plus a big polish pass: a compact delay panel (the button beside Help) for when you're working on overlays, a Studio redone in the dashboard's style, overlays up to a third smaller, the dock showing each destination's platform, and a dashboard that stays smooth next to OBS and a game.

The full list is in the changelog.

Updating

The update prompt picks it up as usual, and your settings, destinations, integrations and overlays come along. Saved overlays catch up by themselves the next time you open the dashboard while you're not live.

Warning

Going back to 0.1.16? It can't read integrations that use something new here (the Dock event, Goal or timer, and Stream title and category steps, and Twitch alerts, which now list each event in the dock), and it removes them the next time it saves. Export them as recipes first.

Thanks

To every one of you who trusts InstantClone with your stream. Handing a tool the moment you go live is a big deal, and I don't take it lightly. Thank you for every stream, every report, every screenshot and every "this confused me" on Discord. This release is built out of them.

Keep them coming. Most of what ends up here starts as someone telling me something is annoying.

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