Manage your overlay links

Where do I find my overlay links?

Open your profile and go to Configure my links. It has two lists: My generated overlay links, for the designs you published from the configurator, and My shop purchases, for the designs you bought in the shop. Open any of them to copy its link, check its counters and change how it behaves on stream.

How does the 2-device limit work?

A link is personal and opens on up to 2 devices, for example your main streaming PC and a spare. Each link shows how many are in use, such as 1 of 2 devices used, and the date it was last opened. Reopening the link on a device it already knows never counts twice, and a device that has not opened the link for 30 days stops counting. A third device sees a blocked message instead of your overlay.

A device here means one browser on one computer, because that is where the link remembers it. In practice:

• A desktop at home and a laptop for events are your two devices, however often you reopen the link on each.
• Several scenes, profiles or scene collections in the same OBS count as one device, and so do a horizontal and a vertical canvas on the same PC (see Add an overlay to TikTok LIVE).
• OBS and a web browser on the same PC are two devices. To check your overlay, use the live preview on the link's settings page rather than opening the link in Chrome.
• A reinstalled Windows or a new browser profile can be seen as a new device.

How does the design changes counter work?

Each link shows how many design changes are left, for example 3 of 5 changes left. A static link includes 5 and an animated link 10. Free shop designs are published as they are and include none. A change is counted only when you apply a new version of the design from the configurator. Editing and previewing never count. After applying it, refresh the Browser Source in OBS or reopen the link to see the new version.

When no change is left, the link keeps working with its last design, and its button becomes Create a new link: publishing another version then requires a new link.

What can I adjust without changing my link?

Each link has its own settings page, with a live preview. Whatever you save there applies to the same link, so your OBS scene does not change. The overlay picks up the new settings the next time it loads, so refresh the Browser Source to see them at once.

• Personalized text, in the text zones the design allows.
• Stick movement, from subtle to expressive.
• Dead zones for each stick. Raise the minimum only if the preview moves while your sticks rest, which hides the drift of a worn stick. Lower the maximum to show a stick as fully pushed before it reaches its edge.
• Trigger fill: L2 and R2 light up at once, or fill gradually while you hold them, at a quick, normal or slow speed.
• Hiding the controller when you stop playing, after 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
• The Padcraft animation: off, after 20 seconds without input, or always. Free shop designs always show it.

None of these settings change what your game receives or add input lag. They only change the picture.

How do I keep my link private?

Anyone who opens your link takes one of its 2 device slots, so treat it like a password. Close the Browser Source properties before going live, crop screenshots of your OBS settings, and never paste the link in chat or on Discord. On a shared computer, use a separate OBS profile so other people do not see it. If a friend wants your overlay, share the design idea: they can build their own in the configurator.

Why would a link stop working?

• It was opened on a third device: see the device limit above.
• The controller is not detected, which looks like an empty overlay: see Controller not detected.
• Padcraft disabled the link. The cases, and what you get back, are in Refunds and replacements.

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