hi and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're doing really well this is a video about how you
can call your chat in twitch the short answer here is that there are two versions of it
and i'll show the two versions of it but it really depends on whether you're coming from the angle of
being a streamer or if you're simply a viewer if you find this video useful give it a thumbs up
feel free to subscribe and you can check me out daily at twitch.tv forward slash machine dana
i stream six o'clock at uk times let's get into it there are really two answers to this question
answer number one if you're a viewer and honestly you only need to watch the rest of the remaining
30 40 seconds of this video you can simply type forward slash me and your lovely text into the
text box as you can see in the bottom here um and whenever you type forward slash me it will color
the text the same as your name and it is as simple as that okay your lovely text and you can change
the color of your name by simply going into the chat settings uh make sure you're on the uh the
chat settings view here and look at your identity you can click this to edit and you can change the
color here you can also choose whether or not you want to show badges and things like that
um if you're not happy with any of these chords here you can click on more colors and then you
can go into more specific chat settings including hexes i'll just move the camera out of the way
and then you can go into more chat settings specific color settings and other kind of
stuff like that and it shows you an example of it in dark mode and light mode but if you're a
viewer that's pretty much all you need to know however if you're a streamer you may want your
bot commands and your timers and various other things the same color as the color of your bot so
this is where the answer gets a little bit longer it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes
i'm using streamlabs so i'll show you how to do this in streamlabs but you will be able to do this
in stream elements um and other bot providers as well so really the main aim here is that
you can distinguish between what is bot chat and what is not bot chat so obviously you want to be
responding broadly to your viewers responses your viewer questions and your viewers chat um whenever
they are chatting but you don't really need to be responding and trying to figure out what is a bot
uh chat and what what isn't botchat and that might seem obvious if you're a very very quick reader uh
being able to read quickly it might come straight forward to you it might not be an issue but if
you're having to read bot text just to figure out that it is bot text to move on to the next message
in the next message that can take time and it can also detract away and deflect away from your chat
and responding to your viewers so having your bots and timers and commands also respond in a color
helps you to immediately distinguish what is box man's and what is not and that just helps
you manage chat a little bit better i have done a longer video on managing chat so please do
feel free to check that out if you're a streamer and you want to manage your chat better there's
a load of tips on how you can manage your chat better i will link it in the description below
and the short answer here if you're a streamer and i'll show an example of what this looks like
on one of my past broadcasts so here's a pressed broadcast of mine and as you can see i've got
bot commands here that are coming through as purple as my bot and i've named the bar i'll
also show you how i can name the bot and i've got viewers that are doing chat in their own colour
most of the time it's white some chat is now and then we'll do it with the forward slash
me commanders i've just shown as you can see it's now really easy for me as the streamer to hone in
on the chat that is white on my viewers chat as opposed to my bot chats and it also is a nicer
experience for the viewers because they can learn to broadly ignore the bot chart unless
it's a bot command that they've requested if that makes sense some viewers may choose still
to read it but at least they've got the time and they're not sort of focusing on the broadcast for
that so that's what it looks like or of course the core that you choose if you want to name your bot
in stream labs online the way you do that is on the name function here so you log into streamlabs
using your twitch credentials or your youtube gaming credentials that will allow you to log in
if you call on cloudbot here and on the name function first you need to make sure that cloud
bot is actually enabled and you need to forward slash mod stream labs in your chat so type forward
slash mod and then space and then stream labs once you've done that you can basically add
a name here which is your bot now the thing to bear in mind here it will initially ask you
to log in if you're already logged into your twitch here you've got to take into consideration
that if you've used your twitch credentials to log into streamlabs you then need to log out of twitch
and then log into this namebot here i'll just show what that looks like by removing so by
default streamlabs is the name of the bot and the color is a similar color to this so the text
color will also be a color the same as that so by default your cloud bot uh when it's turned on and
modded will respond in this color and it'll be that's the name of the user so if you want to
name you can either create a separate bot account you may already have a separate bot account that
you you want to simply link so to do that you select this option here it'll take you here
now because i'm logged in as machine dana which is my my streamer account i need to log out of that
rather than authorizing machine danger to be the bots it's not advisable to have your main
account as your bot account i'm just going to say it's not me and log out and type my girth machine
which is the name of my bot account two-factor authentication on you'll be asked to provide a
key for that of course then you authorize your new account um your bot account with streamlabs
and this should now update just like that so it's now logged me into my twitch what i can now do
on my bot account if i'm a streamer is going to chat go into chat settings go into the identity
settings and change the color of my bot account here or by going onto more calls choose a more
specific hex color but that's now linked to my bot account and i've been able to update the color of
my bot account there is some final things that need to be done at this point if you do decide
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final thing if you're a streamer your bot is going to respond commands and your bot is going
to respond timers the timers are obviously things that happen when you turn them on here and you
edit them these things happen if the line minimums are hit on chat and also the interval minimums so
that this is in minutes has been hit all you have to do is simply edit your timers to have forward
slash me at the start of it you need to do that for every single timer and that will work so all
the time is now when they arrive will turn up with colored text from your bots i have done a more
specific video about timers please feel free to search through my videos and see the timers video
it's quite a good one secondly your commands if you're anything like me you've probably got quite
a lot of commands i've got something like uh six pages of commands there's lots of different things
uh over over time that have been added uh i probably should clean these out a little bit
you've got custom default variables and then settings here and again this is within cloud bot
and commands you can search for specific commands that you want to be coloured if you want to or you
can simply go into every single command and add forward slash me to the start of that command
and that in itself will color the text of the command responses when people use these
commands you do it on the customs then you've got to do it on the defaults as well where applicable
though if i go into here you'll see i've added forward slash me forward slash me there and every
single one forward slash me and it just means that even the default commands that already exist
all of them this may take half an hour to do but it's worthwhile doing
and then settings there's also some cool downs some cost messages some permission
settings i've also put forward slash me on them so every single piece of bot communication that
comes from my linked bot account will now be called text and it will allow you as a streamer
to only view bot text in the course so it helps you distinguish viewer text from bot text
so there you have it hopefully you found this really useful hopefully this helps you improve
your chat helps you manage your chat better helps you distinguish it better again if you've
enjoyed this please do thumbs it up it helps me it helps the visibility of the video and i really
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of streamlabs videos and streaming videos in general and finally have a great day take care