Bracket overlay

Installed separately, as part of the Auction bundle: this module does not come with the app installer. Open Module Catalog → Add-ons and press Install on the Auction card, and the bundle installs all of its modules at once.

What this page is

Bracket overlay prepares the OBS source that shows the tournament bracket of the auction: who meets whom, who advanced and which match is being played right now. It lives at Auction → Bracket overlay. The page builds the link and sets the appearance; the preview in the middle is a sample bracket in the 16:9 proportions of the source.

How to set it up

The page opens on the list of widgets, not on the settings. Create widget sits above it; the first widget is called Main and a new one arrives as New widget. Each row has an On air switch, the widget's name, a one-line summary of its settings and the buttons Copy link, Duplicate, Delete and Configure. Delete appears only once there are two, because the last widget cannot be removed. Configure opens the settings described below and takes you back to the list. Every widget keeps its own link and its own look, so two of them can stand in different scenes at the same time.

On air off takes that bracket off the stream at once, without Save Settings: it disappears, frame included, from every scene that holds its link, and the row is marked Off. The auction, its spins and the other brackets keep going. The Auction: Bracket tile on the Control Panel ignores the switch, because it is your view for running the tournament. Switched back on, the bracket appears by itself with the current state of the tournament. A bracket deleted from the list goes dark the same way, even if its link is still in OBS.

1. The hint under the title says what the source needs: "Copy the link with the Copy link button and add it to OBS as a Browser Source. Recommended size: 1280 × 720. The switch in a row takes only that bracket off the air; the auction keeps running."
2. In Link parameters on the left there are two switches, both on to begin with. Amounts in boxes shows the amount over the name. Follow the current match keeps the played pair in frame and repeats the framing set on the Auction: Bracket tile; with it off the source shows the whole tree at once and ignores the tile.
3. Press Save Settings first: the two switches reach the link only once they are saved. Then press Copy link in the header and paste the address into the Browser Source.
4. The Styling card above the section list holds ready-made looks and your own. Open "-- Choose a template --" and take one from Built-in (Neon, Minimal, Retro) or from Mine — this overlay and Mine — from other overlays. The line under the list says what Apply will do; Template name with Save keeps the current look, Delete removes a saved one. Picking one of your own templates puts its name back into the field and Save reads Update: saving then overwrites that template instead of leaving a second copy behind.
5. The sections under it are the bracket taken apart: Source frame, Node box, Title, Amount, Connectors, Current match and Edge padding. Pick one and its fields open on the right.
6. Source frame is the outline around the whole source: Border and Corner radius. Choosing the border style "none" leaves the source without a frame.
7. Node box is one box of the bracket: Background, Radius, Padding, Border, Shadow, plus Width, % of source and Gap, % of source — those two set how large the boxes are and how far apart they stand.
8. Title and Amount are the two lines inside a box: Font, Size, % of the node box, Weight, Color and Shadow each. Their size is a share of the box, so changing the box width carries the text along.
9. Connectors are the lines between boxes: Thickness, Unplayed line color and Opacity, %. A line whose winner is known takes the colour of that lot instead.
10. Current match is the box being played: Border, Glow, and Eliminated opacity, % for the branches that are out. Edge padding has Top and bottom and Left and right, in pixels: the space between the source edge and the bracket.
11. The name, both switches and the look are written only when you press Save Settings in the header: the note over the preview says "Changes stay here until you press Save." Once saved, a source already added to OBS takes the new look by itself. The switches live in the link, so after changing them and saving, copy the link again and put the new address into the Browser Source. Back to list with unsaved changes asks first. Reset appearance in the header puts the default look back on screen; it is written only when you press Save Settings, and leaving without saving keeps the old look.

What it cannot do

• The bracket is not built here. It comes from the Tournament mode of the draw on the Auction page; while there is no bracket the source stays empty and transparent, and the frame goes with it.
• The source also stays empty until the auction reports its state. While the auction is switched off on Auction: Control, or not running at all, nothing shows from the moment the scene loads, not even an empty frame. So when the bracket source is empty, check these first: is there a tournament yet, is the auction switched on, is On air on in the bracket's row, and is the bracket still in the list.
• The captions inside the boxes — FINAL, MATCH {n}, "not played yet", "spinning…" — cannot be rewritten. Only their font, size, weight, colour and shadow are yours.
• The source in OBS does not answer the mouse. The bracket is dragged and zoomed on the Auction: Bracket tile, and with Follow the current match on, the source repeats the frame set there: Autofocus on the tile follows the current match, and a frame you set by hand stays put. Before strAImer 0.25.0 the framing from the tile did not reach OBS, and the source followed the current match on its own.
• In OBS the bracket glides from match to match and the current match pulses even with animation effects switched off in Windows: that setting is about your own screen, so it calms only the preview here and the Auction: Bracket tile.
• A long lot name in a box is cut with an ellipsis — the box does not grow to fit it.
• Nothing is decided or shown ahead of time: while the wheel is spinning the box of that match reads "spinning…", and the result appears when the wheel stops.