WEATHER CONTROL! Scripting a Live Display in vMix Like a Pro

[@rudyengels]

It's a gift explaining complex stuff in a way most people can understand. Sometimes it's above my pay grade but every single time I'm learning something from it.

[@StreamingAlchemy]

I am incredibly lucky to have such a great community of folks that watch the show. We try to cover topics that are useful to everyone, so please share any suggestions around specific subjects you’d like to see us do something on. Thanks (as always) for joining us!

[@g4goodness]

A really nice piece of work using loading and parsing of an external XML document and adding info to a GT Title - thanks, John!

[@StreamingAlchemy]

Thanks Gary. I definitely appreciate you taking the time to watch!

[@terrellwright7565]

The Virtual Bob Ross!! Hope all is well with you and yours. Great presentation. Thanks...

[@StreamingAlchemy]

Glad you enjoyed the show, Terrell. All is good with everyone here - I appreciate you asking! Hope all is well from your side. Thanks for watching.

[@jarkkohartikhainen1132]

Thanks, John. I really hope you still take time to teach us complicate stuff in an understandable way.

[@angelmfh-7134]

Can I get this template link please?

[@seans1170]

Is your "Days Overlay" a picture that you imported, or is it 5 separate days that you created using the Title Designer? I notice that you have just 1 layer called Days Overlay, but I have no idea how you created it as a single layer (if you used the Title Designer)

[@StreamingAlchemy]

Hi Sean - The forecast display was made in GT Title Designer using assets created in Photoshop. It has multiple layers with specific named elements in it for the background, title at the top, and the weather information displayed for each day. It is populated by a script that reads the data from the site OpenWeather.org and reformats it for display. The video itself covers this in more specific detail. Thanks for watching!

[@die.Verbreiter]

it is great, is there something to download? I would like to test it with german data.

[@ton80live]

I followed along and created the script but I get an "Error Line 54 BC30451: Name 'DailyForecast' is not declared...Any ideas what I am doing wrong? code looks the same.

[@seans1170]

what are the dimensions of your graphic elements? Did you make this with raster or vector images?

[@Regio1live]

hi, is there a way to download the GT designed title? We'd like to adapt it to a german region...

[@scwfan08]

Why make it hard when you can just load the XML via the data sources and map it to the title?

[@StreamingAlchemy]

The specific reason we used scripting to do this was to do calculations and formatting changes to the values being pull from the source before displaying them. That would not have been possible if we pulled the values directly through data source manager. More generally, our goal with Streaming Alchemy is to give people tools they can apply to their own productions, and sharing the scripting concepts in this show is really core to that broader goal. I hope you found something in the show helpful. Thanks for watching! Best