Nerdy And Loving It

I looked this up recently and found that there wasn’t a lot of information about it, so I thought I’d share.

First, Hearthstone Deck Tracker is a tool to show pertinent information about Hearthstone while you play. Many people use it on stream to show the viewers what is in their deck and what cards have been played. Some people think it’s cheating and refuse to use it, while others don’t use it simply  because they don’t want to rely on it and would rather use their own memory. (Certainly you wouldn’t be able to use it in tournaments, though I’ve heard professional players take notes on paper as they play.)

Either way, if you want to add it to your stream, you have two options:

One is to use monitor capture on OBS. This is fairly straightforward, so I won’t be covering it here.

The other option is to capture the deck window as described below.

1. Go to options -> Overlay -> Deck Windows in the Hearthstone Deck Tracker.
2. Mark the “Player” check-mark. This will cause a window to pop up that shows your currently selected deck.
3. Click on the “Background” drop-down and select “Custom”.
4. In the “Custom hex” text box enter “#00ff00” (without quotes). This will set the background to pure green.
5. Now, open OBS, right click in “Sources” within whatever Scene you want to add this to and select “Window Capture”. Name it something along the lines of “Hearthstone Deck Tracker”.
6. Select the window called “Player”, Select “Inner Window”, Select “Sub-Region”, Click the “Select Region” button, drag down the top of the window so that you cut off the top of the window and press enter. (My settings are Position 0 29 and Size 230 560). Your settings may differ. If you didn’t cut off enough of the window, just come back here and adjust it down further.
7. Select “Use Color Key”. Double click on the color box. Select the third green down from the top. If you want exact settings, I have Hue 80 Sat 240 Lum 120 Red 0 Green 255 Blue 0. Click Ok. This ensures that all of the green background that we selected previously is hidden, similar to a green screen. Click Ok.
8. Now, just position the deck where you want it. I generally line it up where the deck naturally sits in the normal overlay.
9. NOTE: You must not minimize the window. Just leave it up normally in the background.

You can do the same with other deck windows that are listen in the Hearthstone Deck Tracker options menu.

Have fun.