Hi guys, it's machine Dana, welcome to the video, I hope you didn't really really well. In this video I'm going to be going through some information about how you can change the settings for overlays of people's names, appetisers and also preview messages within discord. Some of you may or may not know but there is a game overlay that is allowable and some settings you can tweak within discord that allows people's names to show when people are speaking or to be there permanently all the time within game. And the same is true for some message notification previews as well within discord so you can see that within your game. Some people like to have some of these things on or the people don't, it's completely personal preference. I've noticed recently the message notifications turned on and I just wanted to remove the preview of the message notification, I don't particularly like that but I do actually quite like having the overlay on for when people are speaking so that I can know who is in my channel and who is talking at a particular time at a quick glance in the corner. So this video I'll show you exactly where those settings are, how to get the most of those settings and how you can tweak them. If you do find this useful feel free to thumbs up, I'd very much appreciate it, feel free to subscribe as well, I do provide loads of streaming content, of discord content and tutorials and just general content creation advice and guidance. Finally, if you want to check me out on Twitch feel free to at twitch.tv forward slash machine data. Let's go. Okay, first of all, what am I actually even talking about here? Well, as you can see in the top left hand corner of the screen here whenever I speak the notification appears there and then when I don't speak it turns off. You can tweak all of these settings but there's also another setting where a message preview of any messages you've received will also be in this corner as well. I'll show you exactly how you can change these settings. First of all, you want to be opening up discord and going into the user settings here, just the cog. So in mind, these are settings based on your user settings as opposed to a server setting. These are not server settings, these are only user settings. You need to go to the app settings. So this is the discord app settings on overlay and here are the settings that we need to be tweaking and I'll just go through all these settings one by one. First of all, the overlay within itself, whether or not you want it to be toggled on or off, you can simply toggle it off or toggle it on. You can even set a keybind here by clicking this and doing some keystrokes that will toggle that on or off. You could then very easily link that to your stream deck as well if you've got a stream deck using hotkeys and various other stuff. I'll do another video about that. Just for reference point here, when you're in discord, if you've got this enabled, when you're in a voice server, when you're in a voice channel, these overlays will activate or deactivate. So these are not relevant when you're not in a voice channel, they're only relevant when you're in voice. And of course, it applies to both your avatar and your speech as well as anyone else that's in that same voice channel as you. So first of all, we've got larger, small avatar. I'll just show you quickly what small avatar looks like. There we go. It's just a little bit smaller. There's the larger avatar there. I personally prefer the larger ones a little bit easier to see. Then we've got the difference between display names and display users. Now, it's a little bit weird that they've said avatar size here, but then they've put this one as display users because they could easily do display avatar because that's basically what they're referring to here. So we'll go through these settings, display names. So this is the actual text name of the person in the voice channel. So that's literally this section here, the name of the person. You can have it so that that's always on only when speaking or the name literally never shows. Then we talk about the avatar itself. We can have it so that the avatar is there only when speaking or always. So as we can see, only when I speak will my name appear, but the avatar will be there all the time. As you can see, there's no name there, but the avatar does appear there blacked out when I'm not speaking. Hopefully that explains the settings well. It took me a minute or two to actually figure out what those settings were, the differences between the two. But that's what they are. Finally, we get to the overlay notification. So these are notifications for text channel messages that you've received. Bear in mind here that this is only for notifications that you've allowed. So if you've disabled notifications in any particular channels or for any particular people, they will not appear here anyway by default. This is only to manage the notifications that you've allowed for yourself. First of all, we can choose exactly where we want. Don't know why I said exactly there because you've only got four choices each of the corners. So you can't choose exactly where you want the notification, but you get a choice of which corner you want them in. Secondly, we can actually just choose to turn them on or off here with this toggle, show text chat notifications. Personally, I just do not like having the chat notifications previews there. It could be something potentially very private or not safe for work channels or stuff like that that are being shown on there. So especially when streaming is worthwhile being a little bit more careful with things like that or obvious reasons. And that's literally it. That's how you can turn them off the chat notification overlays. That's how you can tweak the voice notification overlays. It can make a big difference, particularly when you're playing games like Among Us where the person that is chatting makes a real difference to editing content and video stuff that you might do with that footage. I've noticed some really good, among us video edits that I've seen recently, for example, on YouTube where the Discord voice servers is quite an integral part of the video. So this is why all this is quite important. Okay, guys, I'm going to leave it there. Hopefully you found this useful. If you did find it useful, give it a thumbs up. At least that will definitely help me loads. 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