OnTopRelica batch file for multiple screen segments

[Will]

I am seeking a way to launch multiple ontopreplica instances through a batch file.

I currently open ontopreplica and then position and define at least three windows everytime I open tgc2019 along with ignite (uneekor qed).

OnTopReplica copies segments of a window and displays them wherever you choose, on top of another window or full screen game, and at different opacity.

There is a need to capture several portions of a launch monitor window and overlay these snippets onto a specific location of tgc2019, repeatedly.

These launch commands have to have the coordinates of the target launch window and the target screen position within tgc2019.

[Noob20]

I am trying to download and install OnTopReplica from GitHub. As a computer novice, I can't find the .exe file or other instructions. Can anyone provide a location to find step by step instructions for downloading, installing and setting up/using OTR?

Thanks!

[gojoholo]

I am trying to download and install OnTopReplica from GitHub. As a computer novice, I can't find the .exe file or other instructions. Can anyone provide a location to find step by step instructions for downloading, installing and setting up/using OTR?

Thanks!

I was going to install OTR today anyway. I have a monitor plus projector. I run Uneekor view on the monitor and TGC on the projector. Here's what I did:
1) Download the OTR zip from https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/releases
2) open the zip and double click the msi file
3) once installed, find it in the windows menu and start it.
4) a white window appears with text something like "right click here to start", right click it and select the program you want to view in the window. In my case "View"
5) The whole program window is now replicated in the OTR window. Right click OTR again and select the "region" option, left click and drag to select the portion of the window you want replicated. For me this was the club replay
6) left click on OTR and drag it to the position you want on the screen. Drag a corner to resize it to your liking.

Apologies to OP for hijacking this thread.

[Noob20]

Yes, apologies for hijacking. I can't seem to run the msi I guess. I have Windows 10, new computer. I'll PM you, if you don't mind.

[Will]

Any comments about OnTopReplica are appreciated. This program really makes an informative presentation on the impact screen.

[brockndsu]

Batch file or macro would be awesome. I only do club head replay, which isn't bad if you save the size and position.

[Will]

I also placed the uneekor red "No Ball"/ green "Ready" text over the word "Ready" on the tgc2019 "Ready to Swing".

The uneekor ignite's five bottom data tiles are nice to have just above the club cam.

I'd like to make all of this in a batch because those tiles have data that can be rearranged. Therefore, I always really just want the 5 main data points that I am currently interested. I turn off the thc2019 club/ball info screen now that I have the club path and the 5 data points.

[gojoholo]

I've had a play with the command line and found that starting OTR from the shell with the --help option gives some useful info:

--windowId=HWND Window handle (HWND) to be cloned.
--windowTitle=TITLE Partial TITLE of the window to be cloned.
--windowClass=CLASS CLASS of the window to be cloned.
-v, --visible If set, only clones windows that are visible.
--size=WIDTH,HEIGHT Target WIDTH,HEIGHT of the cloned thumbnail, or
--width=VALUE Target WIDTH of cloned thumbnail, or
--height=VALUE Target HEIGHT of cloned thumbnail.
--position=X,Y Target X,Y of the OnTopReplica window.
--screenPosition=TR|TL|C|BR|BL
Resolution independent window position on
current screen, with locking. Values:
TR|TL|C|BR|BL.
-r, --region=X,Y,W,H Region X,Y,W,H of the cloned window.
-p, --padding=LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM
Region padding LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM of the
clone.
-o, --opacity=0-255 Opacity of the window: 0-255.
--clickForwarding Enables click forwarding.
--clickThrough Enables click through.
--chromeOff Disables the window's chrome (border).
--fs, --fullscreen Starts up in fullscreen mode.
-h, --help, -? Show command line help.

So after a bit of experimentation I created this .bat file:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\OnTopReplica\OnTopReplica"
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=VIEW --region=1300,65,600,700 --width 200 --position=1700,800
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=VIEW --region=525,875,1200,135 --width 600 --position=1300,0

Save this somewhere as a .bat file e.g. "OTRx2.bat". Place a shortcut to the batch file on your desktop and double click it after you have started View and selected the "Club" tab. For IGNITE change the windowTitle parameter to the name of the Ignite window (presumably "IGNITE"). You will probably have to experiment with the coordinates and window sizes. I have VIEW running windowed, full screen, on a 1920 by 1080 monitor. The first OTR window (line 2 of the batch file) focuses on the clubhead replay&photo area of View, the second one shows the stats running across the bottom of the window (ball speed etc). The only thing I haven't worked out is how to place the OTR windows on the 2nd screen (the projector, where TGC is running). They always appear on the primary monitor (where View is running). So I have to manually place them on the TGC window.

[Will]

@gojoholo

That's the type of example I need to get started. I'll post my results when it's complete.

Thank you.

[Will]

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\OnTopReplica\OnTopReplica"
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=VIEW --region=1300,65,600,700 --width=200 --position=3620,800
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=VIEW --region=525,875,1200,135 --width=600 --position=3220,0

I added 1920 to your horizontal position. Does this get your OTR to the correct position? Also, I had to use "-size" instead of "-width" for the windows to scale correctly on mine. You were missing an equal sign and I left your width value.

[Will]

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\OnTopReplica\OnTopReplica"
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=144,26,130,58 --size=132,58 --position=1758,259 --opacity=255 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=1160,1120,1360,290 --size=750,160 --position=3000,1341 --opacity=192 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=24,234,750,230 --size=750,230 --position=3000,1500 --opacity=192 --chromeOff


This text for the bat file is only for TGC2019 at 2160P on the left primary monitor, and Ignite set to 2560x1440 in windowed mode(display right). The "region" is the target position within the Ignite software. The size, position, and opacity is all related to where and how it is displayed over TGC. So, if you are running TGC2019 at 2160p, these values should be good. If you are running Ignite at a different resolution, then you will have to redefine the region entries.

These entries, in order, place the "READY" or "NOBALL" in the upper center of TGC. It finally made that "Ready for swing" area useful.
Position and scale, 5 tiles of info to the lower right of TGC, opacity is at around 75% so you can see menu items.
Postion and scale the swing path cam, just below the tiles, opacity 75% (192/255).

Thanks again to @gojoholo for a great example!

Here are the results that now launch automatically with TGC2019. (I just tapped a putt as an example.) Now I don't have to create, resize, and move these windows everytime.

[Will]

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[Will]

I added the above text to my other batch file that launches TGC2019 and the TGC server service. Now, all launch together.


start /min " " "c:\ProgramData\ProTee United\TGC Simulator\TGCSim_Data\Server\server.exe"
Timeout /T 6
start " " "C:\ProgramData\ProTee United\TGC Simulator\TGCSim.exe"

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\OnTopReplica\OnTopReplica"
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=144,26,130,58 --size=132,58 --position=1758,259 --opacity=255 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=1160,1120,1360,290 --size=750,160 --position=3000,1341 --opacity=192 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=24,234,750,230 --size=750,230 --position=3000,1500 --opacity=192 --chromeOff

[Will]

This post is for those people running both TGC2019 and QED_Ignite in a dual monitor setup, at both full screen 1080p.

Here is the text for your batch file to open the same three windows that are displayed in my example above with OnTopReplica.

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\OnTopReplica\OnTopReplica"
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=108,19,98,44 --size=66,29 --position=875,120 --opacity=255 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=870,840,1020,218 --size=375,80 --position=1500,658 --opacity=192 --chromeOff
start OnTopReplica.exe --windowTitle=QED_Ignite --region=18,176,563,173 --size=375,115 --position=1500,740 --opacity=192 --chromeOff

[Noob20]

Hey Will I use OTR to watch TV while practicing. For the last month or so, OTR freezes when I go back to FS Golf or to TGC2019. You still hear the audio but the picture freezes. Do any of your adjustments fix that issue, or is this a use you do not experiment with?

[Will]

@Noob20

Currently, the only use I have for OTR is to display the three items from ignite software. It has video and has never locked up. Ignite is not minimized nor sharing the same monitor as a full screen app such as TGC2019. Either may be your issue.

My second monitor has a roku stick plugged into it and simply plays under the monitor's own pip system. The default audio source for that monitor is also the roku. Ignite wouldn't even know the roku was present.

[Will]

@Noob20

https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/issues

Use Microsoft edge and see if that works.

Alternatively, there are some flags that may have to be changed in chrome.
The following was copied from https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/issues/103

go to chrome and type: chrome://flags/
type --> occlusion <-- in the search box
set "Calculate window occlusion on Windows" to "Disable"
relaunch browser

[docdawgdmd]

Ty for doing this! Works great for me. I’d say I am a medium knowledge base and this was very easy to create and execute. I had to atweak the vertical value for the ball status OTR slightly, but very cool.

[SpookyCamzilla]

Will is there any way to get this working if your primary monitor is to the right of the TGC monitor? Mine is a TV, so it makes sense to have the right monitor primary, but I can't figure out how to position the snippet to the left of my current screen. Negative values don't seem to work.

[SpookyCamzilla]

Sorry, to be clear: I have a 4k TV on the left side of my 1080p PC Monitor. OTR launches on the monitor, which is the main display, but I run TGC on the TV right now. Adding horizontal moves the OTR to the right, off the screens. I need to move it to the left of the screen... But even using 0,0 places it at the top left of the PC monitor.

[Will]

The "right monitor as Main Display" does not appear to be supported according to
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica/issues .

Negative values do not work and this free software has not been patched. You can move the TV to the right of the monitor within display properties or make it the main display.

[SpookyCamzilla]

Thanks Will!

[timsiegle]

I recently heard about OBS (open broadcaster software), would it work for this? I have no experience with it so I realize I might be way off base but I'm curious about taking pieces of Ignite and overlaying on GSP