hi guys it's machine dana welcome to the video i hope you're doing really really well in this video
i'm going to be going through some information about how you can change the settings for overlays
of people's names avatars and also preview messages within discord some of you may or
may not know but there is a game overlay that is allowable and some settings you can tweak within
discord that allows people's names to show when people are speaking or to be there permanently
all the time within game and the same is true for some message notification previews as well within
discord so you can see that within your game some people like to have some of these things on other
people don't it's completely personal preference i've noticed recently the message notifications
turned on and i just wanted to remove the preview of the message notification i didn't particularly
like that but i do actually quite like having the overlay on for when people are speaking so
that i can know who is in my channel and who is talking at a particular time at a quick glance in
the corner so in this video i'll show you exactly where those settings are how to get the most of
those settings and how you can tweak them if you do find this useful feel free to thumbs up i'd
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okay first of all what am i actually even talking about here well as you can see in
the top left hand corner of the screen here whenever i speak the notification appears
there and then when i don't speak it turns off you can tweak all of these settings but
there's also another setting where a message preview of any messages you've received
will also be in this corner as well i'll show you exactly how you can change these settings
first of all you want to be opening up discord and going into the user settings here just the
cog so bear in mind these are settings based on your user settings as opposed to a server setting
these are not server settings these are only user settings you need to go to the app settings so
this is the discord app settings on overlay and here are the settings that we need to be tweaking
and i'll just go through all these settings one by one first of all the overlay within itself
whether or not you want it to be toggled on or off you can simply toggle it off or toggle it on
you can even set a keybind here by clicking this and doing some keystrokes that will toggle that
on or off you could then very easily link that to your stream deck as well if you've got a stream
deck using hotkeys and various other stuff i'll do another video about that just for reference point
here when you're in discord if you've got this enabled when you're in a voice server when you're
in a voice channel these overlays will activate or deactivate so these are not relevant when you're
not in a voice channel they're only relevant when you're in voice and of course it applies to both
your avatar and your speech as well as anyone else that's in that same voice channel as you so
first of all we've got large or small avatar i'll just show you quickly what small avatar looks like
there we go it's just a little bit smaller there's the larger avatar there i personally prefer the
larger ones a little bit easier to see then we've got the difference between display names and
display users now it's a little bit weird that they've said avatar size here but then they've
put this one as display users because they could easily do display avatar because that's basically
what they're referring to here so we'll go through these settings display names so this is the actual
text name of the person in the voice channel so that's literally this section here the name of
the person you can have it so that that's always on only when speaking or the name literally never
shows then we talk about the avatar itself we can have it so the avatar is there only when speaking
or always so as we can see only when i speak will my name appear but the avatar will be there all
the time as you can see there's no name there but the avatar does appear there blacked out
when i'm not speaking hopefully that explains the settings well it took me a minute or two to
actually figure out what those settings were the differences between the two but that's what they
are finally we get to the overlay notifications so these are notifications for text channel messages
that you've received bear in mind here that this is only for notifications that you've allowed
so if you've disabled notifications in any particular channels or for any particular people
they will not appear here anyway by default this is only to manage the notifications that
you've allowed for yourself first of all we can choose exactly where we want i don't know why i
said exactly there because you've only got four choices each of the quarters so you can't choose
exactly where you want the notification but you get a choice of which corner you want them in
secondly we can actually just choose to turn them on or off here with this toggle show text
chat notifications personally i just do not like having the chat notifications previews there it
could be something potentially very private or not safe for work channels or stuff like that
that are being shown on there so especially when streaming it's worthwhile being a little bit more
careful with things like that or obvious reasons and that's literally it that's how you can turn
them off the chat notification overlays that's how you can tweak the voice notification overlays it
can make a big difference particularly when you're playing games like a mongers where the person that
is chatting makes a real difference to editing content and video stuff that you might do with
that footage i've noticed some really good among us video edits that i've seen recently for example
on youtube where the discord voice servers is quite an integral part of the video so this is why
all this is quite important okay guys i'm going to leave it there hopefully you found this useful
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