Hey everyone, it’s Derek with Nerd or Die, and I’m excited to debut the first item
for our Jackpot alert package, which is available now in the Nerd or Die store.
What your looking at is a slot machine themed alert for Muxy, that allows you add your own
icons, emotes, or pictures quickly and easily.
It also includes default icons and custom sound effects that you can use or replace
if you’d like.
In this video I’ll walk you through the steps of setting it all up, show you how to
add in your own images, and how to change some options such as win chance and more.
Let’s get right into it.
So to start off, this alert is a paid product.
But, if you’re someone that is waiting for our next free product, I promise you it will
be releasing pretty soon, so make sure to check back for that.
For those that are interested in this alert…
it’s one that we put A LOT of work into and I think it’s pretty awesome.
We even made a small app that generates a sprite sheet, which will allow you to use
whatever images or icons you’d like with the slot machine.
I’ll get more into how to use this later in the video.
The package also includes a rainbow slot reel effect, intended for use for large tips or
resubs.
I want to quickly mention that we have more alert games coming soon as well, but let us
know if there’s anything you’d like to see!
We designed this to be used as a fun game to play with your viewers and channel supporters.
It’s up to the broadcaster to decide what winners receive if they hit the jackpot.
I want to stress that you SHOULD NOT offer any rewards with monetary value.
Some ideas for winners would be things like awarding channel currency, setting up a gaming
session with winners, or just sending them a personalized message.
Of course, giving “rewards” is not necessary as well, you could just use this for fun!
It’s really up to you on how to use it.
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To get started, you’ll first need to go to the NerdOrDie.com shop and go through the
checkout process.
Once you’ve checked out, you’ll be able to download the files directly on the webpage
or through an Email that you’ll receive as well.
Download the Read Me and the .zip files included.
If you’d like, you can follow along with the Read Me file, as it explains all the steps
needed.
Extract everything in the the folder from the zip file somewhere on your computer.
You can do this with a program like 7zip or WinRar.
Before we start, let’s first make sure we’re logged into Muxy.io.
To install your alerts you simply need to open up the Muxy link file, titled “Muxy
Jackpot Slot Machine Alerts by Nerd or Die”, by double clicking it.
From here, you should see a quick preview of the slot machine, and all that you need
to do is click “Copy and Start Editing”.
This will create the alert package in your Muxy account automatically.
Next, let’s remove the alerts that we don’t want to use for this package.
Let’s say you don’t want to use this as a host alert, click the host alert tab, and
then find the “Delete alert” button.
To be honest, we originally only intended this to be use as a tip or cheer alert, but
I wanted to make sure you had all the options you needed with this package.
Now, let’s add these alerts into OBS Studio.
With OBS open already, under the “Alert Package URL” we’ll see a button that I
can click to copy the URL.
I can also click the eye icon to show my alert package URL, and then copy it here.
Inside of OBS I’m going to add a browser source.
Paste in the alert package URL and set your width to 1920 and height to 1080.
If this size is too big for your OBS Studio settings, you can click and drag the bounding
box to scale it down as needed.
Let’s test to see if things are working.
I’ll use Muxy’s test alert to send a $2.00 tip.
If things were done right, you should see your alert come through and and the slot machine
spin.
Meaning everything should be working correctly!
Before I move on, if you ever need to get back to editing the alert packages in Muxy,
you can click the “Alert” button on the left, and then use the wrench for which alert
package you’d like to edit.
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Let’s now talk about how easy it is to add in your own emotes, icons, or images to the
slot machine.
All that you need to do is open up the file “Sprite Sheet Maker for Jackpot Slots - Nerd
or Die” in your browser, you can do so by double clicking it.
This will launch our sprite sheet app on Nerd or Die.
From here, you can follow the onscreen instructions…
but, it’s as easy as this.
Decide what icons and images you want to use, and have them saved somewhere on your computer.
You can click the “Upload Files” button and select the images individually, or simply
drag and drop all the images you’d like to use into this drop area.
You need to add at least 3 icons for the slot machine to work properly, but you can add
as many as you’d like after that.
I personally find about 9 to be the best number to go with.
I’ll go ahead and do that, and now you can see a preview of your sprite sheet here on
the right.
From here, just hit “Download” to download your new sprite sheet.
Next, we need to go back into our Muxy alerts, and go to the “media” tab.
We’ll see an image of our default icons, and when we hover over that, we’ll click
the pencil icon to edit which image to use.
Click the upload button, then find your newly downloaded sprite sheet.
Once you’ve selected it, it will be added to your alert, and you just need to hit “Save
Changes”.
To test if the new icons are working, click the “Open Preview Window” button to get
a quick test of your new alert.
Repeat this process for any other alert that you’d like to use the slot machine for.
You can use the same sprite sheet, or different sprite sheets for all your icons.
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Let’s get into changing the options for our alerts.
There’s two sections of options.
First, there’s the built in Muxy rules.
Let’s click the “Big Tip - Slot Machine (Rainbow Effect)” alert and go to its “General”
tab.
We’ll see the “Display Condition” towards the bottom.
This section let’s us set rules for when each type of alert applies.
So, right now, the Rainbow Effect alert will play when a tip is at least $10.
We can easily change that to 20, by changing the amount to at least $20.
Let me quickly hit the preview window button to show you what the rainbow effect alert
looks like.
Also, I want to mention that sometimes the preview window does not follow your rules,
so the donation amount displayed might be under $20.
However, if you use the test function inside of OBS to send a tip of a certain amount,
it will work properly.
Anyways, you can edit the rules of the Muxy alerts for each alert.
For example, if you want the Rainbow effect alert to play for resubs at 3 months, instead
of 6, you can change it the same way I just showed you.
Also, if you need to duplicate an alert, like the rainbow effect ones, you can do so by
clicking the duplicate button, and then editing the rules, icons, and sounds as needed.
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Let’s move on to the next set of options that each alert allows you to change.
This part is completely optional, and you may skip it if you’d like.
Click the HTML tab to get to this area.
Now, this might seem a little intimidating if you’ve never used HTML before, but I
promise it is quite easy if you follow along.
All the alerts have options located at the top in their code.
If you look here, you’ll see winChance, matchTwoChance, useDefaultSounds, and vertical
spacing.
After each, you’ll see a number or the word yes, which is in quotes.
Let’s say you want to change your win chance from 1 percent, which is its default, to 25%.
To do so, I will simply change ONLY the 1 to a 25. Make sure you do not edit anything
other than the numbers, or the word yes when changing these options.
If you accidently delete the the comma after the number 1, it will cause the alert to not
work properly.
If you do break these somehow, you can always reclick the original link and recopy the alerts
back into Muxy.
Anyways, you can also change the match two change, which means the chance of matching
two icons in a row, but not a third, as well.
The use default sounds option can be yes or no.
If it’s set to yes, it will properly play the default sound effects we’ve included
in the package.
If you’d like to change the sound that’s used, set this to “no”, and then go into
the media tab, and upload the audio that you’d like to use.
In this tab you can also enable text to speech as well.
Finally, the last option is vertical spacing, or the amount of pixels vertically seperating
each icon.
I have the default at 20, but feel free to increase or decrease as needed.
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Lastly, the zip file also contains the code and image needed to make the alert work.
If you ever needed to build this alert from scratch in Muxy, or repair an error, you’d
just need to make sure that you enable the advanced tab, set the alert time to 16 seconds,
and then copy and paste the respective HTML and CSS into each tab.
You will need to set the image in the media tab as well.
The easiest way to achieve this is by opening the HTML or CSS files in a program like notepad,
and copying everything from that file, and pasting it into the HTML or CSS tabs in Muxy.
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With that, you now know everything you’d need to, to completely customize this alert
package.
As I mentioned, myself and Tehkhop have worked extremely hard on this item.
We’re already looking into patching some updates, so make sure to follow me on Twitter
from the link below, to stay up to date on any improvements.
Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions or suggestions about this
alert package.
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Thanks for watching.