Want to show emotes from chat on your stream? In this guide, we'll teach you how to use KappaGen to incorporate your favorite emotes into 'Emotesplosions' or display them separately from alerts using the !kappagen command.
Setting Up KappaGen
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Navigate to Overlays
- From your dashboard, go to 'Streaming Tools' and select 'Overlays'.
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Create a New Overlay
- Click on 'New Overlay'.
Add the KappaGen Widget
- In the overlay editor, select 'Add Widget'.
- Hover over 'Alerts' and select KappaGen.
General Settings
Above them, you will see some general options that will affect both tabs:
- Bounding Box: Stretch the bounding box to cover the entire canvas by selecting and dragging the bottom right corner. This ensures KappaGen is shown across the screen.
- Enable Seasonal Hats: Add seasonal hats, like Santa's hat.
- Emote Size: Customize the size of emotes. Avoid using very large sizes to prevent stream delays. Experiment with sizes during your live stream to find the best fit.
Chat Emotes Setup
Chat Emotes display emotes from chat on screen with various animations. The Chat Emotes tab will show emotes or emote combos sent in chat.
Options:
- Animation Option: select from 5 options in the drop-down how you want the emotes to appear on your stream:
- Combo mode: means that when emote combos (a chat bot module that should be enabled) are sent in chat, the widget will display it in the overlay. Set it up as you wish:
Additional options: You can also decide if emojis are enabled for everyone, or only subscriber's emotes will trigger the widget.
Set the amount of emotes per user per second and the emotes duration on screen. You can save the overlay then, and test in chat by sending out emotes!
How to add Custom Emotes to KappaGen:
Press the cog wheel on the right of 'Custom Emotes' to add your custom emotes to KappaGen:
If the file is an animated gif, make sure the checkbox is ticked.
If you have experience with regex and you want this custom emote to be triggered based on certain text patterns, tick that checkbox and set the regex.
Otherwise, type the exact text to match from chat that will trigger the custom emote from the KappaGen widget.
Emotesplosions Setup
Emotesplosions will flood your screen with emotes during events or when triggered by the !kappagen command.
Options:
- Animation Option: Choose from 5 animation options for how emotes appear on stream.
- Alert Types: Select events that will trigger Emotesplosions.
- Emotes to Show: Choose amount of emotes to be displayed overall.
- Select Emotes: select the emotes you want enabled for Emotesplosions by clicking the button as shown in the image below:
From there you can select which emotes you want to appear in the Emotesplosion:
You are now ready for some emote fun during your stream!
Tip: For better control over visuals, consider adding the KappaGen widget to its own dedicated overlay.