As a streamer of MSFS we have a lot of interaction with our followers and viewers alike.
More and more options come available to us through either community or solo projects.
For instance introducing random failures during flight.
Now yesterday I was in the chat of TheFlyingFabio and he uses a community developed mod to do exactly such a thing.
We got talking about how incredible it would be if it was possible that the chat could randomly, without letting the streamer know, introduce a failure during flight.
We are already aware that it is possible to let the Twitch chat fly an airplane. Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) has done so during his streams and quite succesfully.
But it would be nice for streamers if that could somehow be introduced as an integration with Twitch.
Any thoughts on this?
Keep up the good work with this incredible piece of programming.
No. Features like this should be kept away from the official MSFS2020 dev team and kept a private project because it is not something that many users will benefit from.
The author of RandFailuresFS2020 already has a project that uses these.
What is missing is twitch integration, however the author has a private option where he has integrated to twitch and is willing to offer that capability for a price. I haven’t seen any info on it, so I’m not sure about it’s capabilities.
Twitch has a well documented REST API here:
And newer products such as Flow have integration with Twitch and SimConnect built in, so they can bridge between the two.
So I believe we have all the pieces to build something, perhaps a set of Flow scripts?
From a streamer point of view, it could be a lot of fun for either a student (as myself) being tested on random failures and the correct procedures to diagnose and react to them. Or for someone like Fabio, listening to the ways he diagnoses problems and solves or reacts is educational. From an audience perspective, who doesn’t love chaos?
Quass has an integration working on his stream, albeit I think that’s X-Plane and Twitch… but I suspect the same pieces are there with the XP API.
I’ve been collecting this info with an eventual plan to use it if I ever get the time, but maybe other devs can take these and roll forward with it? I haven’t seen the details of how Flow exposes the Twitch bot api, but it sounds pretty sweet from what I’ve seen/read, so that might be the simplest way to script. Otherwise, it’s dusting off Visual Studio C#/C++ which I haven’t done in a while. (Really any CLR .NET language can work… hmmm, I wonder if PowerShell scripts are possible… maybe.)
(Really any CLR .NET language can work… hmmm, I wonder if PowerShell scripts are possible… maybe.)