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Also doable with OnTopReplica, which is super handy in other ways also.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Before I got my second display, this was basically a must-have. VLC Stream on top of my Dota 2 game to watch dota while playing dota? Yes please.
Just FYI even if you only have one monitor there is a cool program called OnTopReplica that lets you clone any window into a little overlay that you can put on the corner of your screen, make transparent, send clicks thru etc. You can even just select a tiny portion of a window to turn into it's own window- such as a countdown timer- then you can shrink it down, put it near your taskbar or wherever to keep an eye on, change opacity and whatnot. I use this for watching netflix while playing some games or monitoring a facebook chat tab without showing any of the rest of the site.
It's free, easy to use and incredibly useful/cool even if you already have multiple monitors.
Here's the link for anyone interested
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Edit: And I almost forgot, if you have a smartphone there is an app called SpaceDesk that lets your computer recognize your phone screen as an additional monitor and stream to it wirelessly. So you can stand your phone up landscape underneath your primary monitor and keep chats or music player whatever down on it/out of the way of whatever else you are doing. Also another good option. Why buy a second screen when you already have one?
Also just FYI in case you think it's a big investment, used 1080p monitors are dirt cheap. I got a samsung and a viewmaster at my local used book store for about $20 each and they are both good enough for gaming. I already had an asus 144hz as my primary and the other two are just fine as side monitors. Sure the colors are a little off and they are 60hz but when you are playing a game you're really only gonna focus on the middle monitor. The rest is peripheral vision and your brain filters out the bezels or little differences.
There's a program called OnTopReplica (https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica) which can be used to enlarge a specific region on your screen, I haven't tested it for the taskbar/dock region but I'm assuming you can select just the discord icon (what you have shown) region and make it expanded to the entire screen.
I've done the same thing before for stuff like monitoring text from a webpage etc, (and I've seen it being used to make enlarged minimaps for games like DotA) so I can confirm it works.
Gonna hijack the top comment and suggest OnTopReplica which has fully working click-through and click forwarding, 4 different transparency settings, and is resizable, and I've been using it for months.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You can combine this with Borderless Gaming and force windowed applications (that don't have a borderless option) to borderless windowed and then add the process name to the list so you can then use OnTopReplica.
https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases
OP's work is a good start, but in case you are having issues, these apps have been around for a while now and they work flawlessly.
OnTopReplica is handy tool for this. It lets you select a window and then crop what section of it you want be visible. You can even make them transparent and enable click-through so that they're completely out of your way. Oh and a tip for anyone who tries it, you can create preset window selections so you don't have to crop netflix/youtube/twitch/reddit/whatever every time.
I use this:
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You have to play in borderless windowed mode, and alt+tab if you want to change what it’s displaying but if you’re just turning on a movie or podcast or long YouTube vid it works like a charm.
You could just use this tiny program though: https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica. Overlays any selected window with sizing, transparency, region definitions, etc. Would be better if you don't want to be flagged for botting from using AHK.
Not the best solution, but I've used OnTopReplica to cover up the subtitle portion of the screen with either a flat color, the area just above and below the subtitle area, or whatever you want really.
If you set two instances of OTR up to replicate the video, one covering a small area above the subtitles and one below, it actually does a nice job of covering the space without being a super distracting color blob.
I've been wondering about this too. What I've found:
- PiP-Tool (Windows)
- OnTopReplica (Windows)
- PiP (MacOS)
With the advent of PiP for Firefox video frames (and the old mpv trick), this is less necessary than it used to be; most of my usecases are covered by Firefox/mpv. Still, it would be cool to have a fancy window manager trick for a fancy window manager...
Thank you! This will help a lot of people!
Let me add that I tweak the face like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAyOLwvSw7M
For the overlay you can use the free tool OnTopReplica
https://www.twitch.tv/popout/YOURCHANEL/chat + https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
OnTopReplica puts a window of your choice always on Top and has useful features like window transparency and click trough.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
works great. You can copy any window into a new one that is always on top. After you selected the window, it lets you cut out the uninteresting parts, so can have only the video part of a twitch or youtube page on top. I changed my wow interface to mostly have dead space in the top right. Moved map to the bottom and questlog to the left. Now it fits a big video into it without messing with any usability
There is sort of a way to do it. You can use OnTopReplica to position a small picture in picture style window of your choice over Elite. https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
I set mine so it's a borderless window of YouTube/Netflix, and then position it in the top right of my Elite window, so it doesn't really block anything if I'm jumping or grinding.
Do you need the window to be interactive while it's in front or do you just need to see it? I use a program called OnTopReplica to watch YouTube and Netflix over games sometimes, but I don't think it lets you interact with the window at all. You can just see it.
I recommend using this software:
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
It creates a copy another window (you can open more than one instance of the program) and you can crop it until all you need to see (the chat, recent events, etc) are at the size you need them.
It should take you some 20 minutes tops to get everything adjusted, but I also recommend that you try playing a game with it before you stream, so you get used to it.
.... yeah, fuck. I'm sorry. twice now I've said the wrong thing
OnTopReplica https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
(it still showed up as #1 result when i searched for replicaontop, but that's probably just google being very sneaky)
I really want this program to be called something else, as you can probably tell, lmao. sorry again, brain being dumb
Yep, I've done this for years. Only with TV/Movies though, not audio books.
A bit trickier since I only have one monitor but I used OnTopReplica and ran games in borderless mode. That program will clone any window into a resizable on-top window that you can lock in place and allow clickthrough. So doesn't matter if I'm watching YouTube, Netflix or Plex, I can still enjoy viewing while playing. Certainly good for slower paced games like Civ, Stellaris, Eve Online.
Although now you've suggested it, I might start doing it with podcasts now.
This plugin for firefox (and i think chrome) has some really good unadvertised pip features. Its regular intended use I use to make all my streams “full browser” and then use the windows10 corner snap thing to arrange the streams.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/maximize-video/
This windows program is good for when a streaming website isn’t playing nice or is displayed weird. It lets you just choose (almost like a screenshot tool) which part of the window you want to focus on, then gives you a floating window of just that selection.
You might also find this program handy. It allows you to make a window semi-transparent and always on top. When using desktop mode, you can use it to superimpose your reference image on the VaM model to let you better shape the model to match the picture.
Iv been searching a long time for something like this and I landed on OnTopReplica to watch videos over games.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You only need this one program and can clone any open program and have it always on top.
It lets you even select parts of your browser window.
You might try OnTopReplica and target netflix using that. Then in OVRdrop select the OTR window. I used this for assetto corsa so I dont lose target on the main window.
For those who wants to give it a try, the program used is called ontopreplica and can be found on github : https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
i have bad eyes. i play with yolomouse so that i can see my mouse cursor.
i experimented for a while with putting the minimap on my second monitor using a screen replicating app; i can't remember which app exactly (it might have been ontopreplica) - it basically allowed you to select a portion of the monitor and replicate it elsewhere and change its size. but i found that even though i could see the minimap better, i had to turn my head much more to see it.
also, i'm not sure whether it is allowed :/
I got you. Try this program OnTopReplica https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
It allows you to display windows on top of other windows, enabling click through so they don't interfere with your current active window, and has a variety of options like opacity and region select.
I'd suggest getting a plain red image. Opening it in image viewer, then open OnTopReplica and select the image window. Then select a region of just a red surface (That way you wont have any window elements or boarders showing). Next resize and reposition where you want it. Turn off boarders then go Advanced -> Enable Clickthrough. Hope that's enough info to get what you needed.
Before I had a second monitor, I used to use OnTopReplica to play YouTube videos, video podcasts, etc. over games. You can set size, transparency, click through, etc. Works for any window.
OnTopReplica is probably what you're looking for.
Here's a video of someone using it for your exact use case.
You're welcome ;)
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
It allows you to select a window and put a copy of it set to always on top wherever you want, you can watch a video while still interacting with the BDO screen.
If you want to do this sort of thing on a single monitor/laptop I recommend checking out On Top Replica It lets you put a picture in picture style window (or windows,) anywhere on your screen, size it how you want and pull the source from nearly any other application. I use it all the time with Factorio.
I have used it in the past (it's been a while) and basically it copies a window and replicates it to be an always on top overlay. I'd give it a shot. With a quick Google search there seems to be other ways to do it like with chrome extensions but not sure of they overlay games. Most likely you will have to make the game windowed full screen
For ED I used a overlay program so it'd have YT/Netflix over the game. Lets me keep on trucking while still being entertained during the long hauls. Here's the program in question: link
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
That will allow you to select a window and region within that window to keep on top of all other applications. You can even make that selected layer click-through so if you mouse over to it and accidentally click nothing will happen.
I don't think it is a perfect fit for what you want, but take a look at OnTopReplica (https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica). You could use it to select exactly what you want to see and then scale it or arrange differently. I think the drawback is that it scales proportionally, so you may not be able to perfectly fill the 43" tv screen.
idk how this has been done however, I usually throw things on-top of games using OnTopReplica
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You can set it so your clicks go through the window and IIRC you can have it so you can click through it into the window its replicating honestly it's such a good utility program
I used it to watch LoL Worlds whilst grinding lmao (https://i.imgur.com/RrslMev.png)
Since you're on Windows, I can suggest (and use quite a bit) OnTopReplica. It is able to take a section of any non-minimized window, and display it on top of everything else.
Even if you do not have VR, you can still do this.
What to pin a video PiP to watch tubes, streams, or do whatever you want?
I've been using OnTopReplica myself, but there are also other examples of similar software you can use.
Yes!
However, you can't pin the PiP off axis like it shown in VR.
I use OnTopReplica to watch streams or downloaded vids all the time. Works great.
Use OnTopReplica. Let‘s you select a window or a specific part of it (like the queue dialog) and keeps it always on top of others. Not sure if it works with fullscreen apps but it‘s worth a try.
( windows only )
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Once downloaded you can use this application to capture a region of ff14 in another window and have it display on top of your current window. This has made my life easier since i typically need to start queue about an hour before work ends and it gives me a constant region where i can glance at for queue
OnTop Replica: https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You pick an active window and it will create a PIP style window displaying that windows contents. It also has an 'always on top' feature to keep it at the top of your desktop.
It's not ideal but you could try OnTopReplica to capture parts of your HUD, resize it, and keep it on top of the game window, or on another part of the screen entirely. It's useful for maps and chat.
Open the photo that you want to work with (as an overlay) in any image display program that supports rotation and scale positioning...then using OnTopReplica set the opacity to multiples of 25% (Right Click -> Opacity), position the projection window wherever you want on your screen (overlaying the 3D modeling program workspace) then enable click through (Right Click -> Advanced -> Enable Click-Through).
https://cmdrs-toolbox.com/guides/empire-rank
OnTopReplica put a small window above your game, you can view youtube or netflix in a corner of your cockpit.
Ack, cross-post not as detailed as I thought. Here's a summary; see full comments on the original post.
- Download OnTopReplica which is a screen overlay viewer (pick the installer, not the source code). https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
- Install OnTopReplica.
- Launch OnTopReplica and then follow these steps to get a zoomed screen overlay of minerals, gas, supply...
>Start OnTopReplica
>Start Starcraft
>Start a game against AI, pause it
> In OnTopReplica, right-click / Select Window / Starcraft (you may need to be running Starcraft in Windowed mode)
>Right-click / Select Region and roughly pick the upper-right with the minerals, gas, and supply. It doesn't have to be precise...
>You'll now get a zoomed version of the region you selected. You can adjust X,Y and Width, Height to be precise. Once adjusted, click Done.
>You can resize the OnTopReplica window by dragging the corners. You can also click in the middle of the window and move it around the screen. Get it just right with supply right over the existing supply..
>Lastly right-click / Advanced / Enable Click-Through. This will let you hover over supply and see worker count.
>You're good to play! Especially for new players, it really helps to have a much larger view of minerals, gas, supply staring you in the face.
If you are on PC then what i do is use the Spotify App and OnTopReplica to get the video player into a movable / resizable window: GitHub - LorenzCK/OnTopReplica: A real-time always-on-top “replica” of a window of your choice (on Windows).
For everyone who wants to recreate this:
1: To use my phone as the touchscreen I used this guide: https://community.citra-emu.org/t/how-to-use-your-smartphone-as-a-touch-screen-for-citra/27289
In the comments you can find people having problems with Citra's qt-config not saving the edits made to it, so see "hector2icarus" comment below and copy his settings (except for the screen size pixel values, calculate those with the guide's OP). For the pixel values I could just use the same values as the guide since I'm also using a 1920x1080 screen and 1024x768 phone window size.
2: To get the HP and rockets to show up on the main window (also works for other games that have important stuff on the second screen) you can simply install OnTopReplica: https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
Install it, open the program and in the window that appears right click and select Citra's double-screen game window in the "Select window" option. To crop it to the HP and rocket counter right click again and select "Select region" and drag a box around the HP and rockets. You can then resize and position the window to your liking, it will stay on top despite selecting Citra afterwards.
That solution using "OnTopReplica" worked for me.
PS. the language is Brazillian Portuguese, but easy to understand.
I have no idea if it's what you're looking for or not, but I remember resorting to using an overlay for displaying the MINIMAP as the big map - before we could hide map mods always showing.
It was pretty much instant as far as I could tell, with no delay and caused 0 fps drops for me, the problem is, I don't remember what it's called anymore.
:edit: Nevermind, figured it out. It's OnTopReplica...
I'm not a coder, but maybe this is something useful? https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
i would reccomend a program called ontopreplica, not sure if it will be able to do exactly what you was thinking but i use that to see my friends webcams on discord chat whilst still bieng able to play full screen
OnTopReplica seems like it would do what you are asking. It allows you to mirror your entire screen, an application, part of the screen, etc. and makes it really easy to do so.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
You can assign this to the Hulu program (or FFXIV) and have it always on top and scale the size however you'd like.
Enjoy!
You can do this:
with https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
The window is adjustable, and keeps focus on the minimap even while you're not using poe.
Looks like you can use OnTopReplica to have another window always-on-top. You could move some other window (like notepad or something) over the area you want to block out, and then use that program to keep it on top. Not as nice-looking as a black bar, but it gets the job done.
OnTopReplica is really great for that, assuming you use windows. You can choose any (part of) window to put on top of everything else, change the size, the transparency etc...
Use OnTopReplica and crop the video, then full screen it (by double clicking the cropped image). https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
You'll want to make whatever you want to display fullscreen as large as possible before hand so you don't have to upscale it as much.
Dude : https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
This allows you to 'copy' another window (let say chrome with Netflix) on top of everything. It allows to watch Netflix while playing the game with only one monitor.
I use OnTopReplica for this kind of stuff. I only have two monitors, so it makes it great while programming to be able to write code, use the other screen for debug, AND watch something on Netflix as well.
Link to program (windows only) on GitHub:
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Latest Relase:
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases/tag/v3.5.1-fix
Credits to the author :)
OnTopReplica can do this for most programs. I don't know if you will have problems with games (maybe as long as you don't run full screen).
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica https://alternativeto.net/software/ontopreplica/
You might try the program called OnTopReplica.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
(see #1 and #9 below)
Features:
- Clone any of your windows and keep it always-on-top while working with other windows,
- Select a subregion of the cloned window, which:
- Can be stored for future use,
- Can use relative coordinates from the target window’s borders.
- Auto-resizing (fit the original window, half, quarter and fullscreen mode),
- Position lock on any corner of your screen,
- Adjustable opacity,
- “Click forwarding”: allows to interact with the cloned window,
- “Click-through”: makes the replica ignore any mouse interaction (turns OnTopReplica into an overlay if set together with partial opacity),
- “Group switch”-mode automatically switches through a group of windows while you use them.
On Top Replica should be able to do what you want.
If you've got plenty of hardware to throw at the problem I also think you could probably get Open Broadcaster Suite (known as OBS) to do what you want, as it is very configurable and scalable. But it's also very heavyweight as it's not really designed for putting overlays on games, it's designed for putting overlays on streams of games. so you might have to do some clever configuration to get it to do what you want. Many streamers run OBS on a second computer because it is so resource intensive. Still, it's a cool tool for creating overlays.
I use OnTopReplica to do this. It allows you to choose either between a whole window or a region you want to display picture-in-picture. I have two monitors, so usually what I end up doing is opening up Netflix, launching full-screen, selecting the entire window using OnTopReplica, and then alt-tabbing out of the screen.
That way, I can play my game, watch something in the corner, and have something up in my other monitor. Usually Discord or something.
My old friend showed me the program to help with grinding in WoW.
i've found this: https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
this seems a little bit in the direction of what i am looking for. now i need to create a program that will display the buttons and hook it up with the ontopreplica program.
I'll let you guys know if this worked
It's not a mod but I found a program that lets you do this called OnTopReplica that I will probably try out myself. There are a few threads about using it to pass time in games with a lot of farming. It works for windows vista, 7, and 10. Codeplex is shutting down so it has moved to github. https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Windows only!
> A real-time always-on-top “replica” of a window of your choice (on Windows).
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In case you need to piece together a solution, OnTopReplica (https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica) is great for displaying a window always on top and wherever you want it. You'd just have to find the timer program to use with it.
Hey! I just remembered to reply now that I'm actually starting my stream, hahah. It's called "OnTopReplica" and it works fairly well, You can also right click when it is open and enable the ability to click through the window so you aren't clicking on it and messing up your game.
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
Enjoy! It's not the greatest app for it, but it gets the job done and I have few issues using it. You only might run into problems playing full-screen applications, so always run the game in borderless window.
No-Second-Monitor crafter tips:
1) OnTopReplica will let you overlay something over your game window, such as youtube or netflix. You can make it click-through for easy pausing/resuming
2) MPC-HC can be set to be always on top, and you can press "1" to make the window borders go away
With a ton of tweaking many webcam suites would allow for this - but it would be buggy at best without a LOT of effort.
You could, instead, use a webcam and just have it always showing on your screen in a mostly transparent window. Maybe use OnTopReplica to have a non-interactive mostly clear window playing the video in your screen bottom corner.