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App settings

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App settings

After entering your license key you will arrive at the Setup screen.

Plugins/extensions for each of the host apps are installed here.

  • After Effects / Illustrator: CEP extension

  • Photoshop: UXP plugin

  • Figma: Plugin

    • We recommend installing the plugin from the Figma Community to be able to run in the browser and desktop versions of Figma

    • If you you have corporate limitations on using Community plugins, you may install it manually.

Recomendations

We recommend that you enable:

  • ✅ Start Overlord on login

    • Whenever you restart your computer (which you should probably do more often), Overlord will automatically start up so you don't have to manually launch it

  • ✅ Auto-update plugins

    • This makes sure that

Optional:

  • ✅ Launch in the background

    • Whenever the Overlord app launches, it will not show any windows and go right into the menu-bar/system-tray

    • This is to reduce the number of windows that popup when you restart your computer, but it can be confusing (see App won't start again)

This displays all the apps that are available to talk with the Overlord system. This means the app is open, and there is an extension/plugin running.

App targeting

In v1, messages were crudely sent to any app with a matching name. If you had 2 versions of Ae open, both would create layers in both. For some users, multiple versions of Ae would open. There was also no way to know if there was a problem with a host app receiving messages.

In v2, you send messages to a specific apps and are only able to send to apps that are open. What you see on this page is much clearer picture of how Overlord is sharing data.

App targeting

In v1, messages were crudely sent to any app with a matching name. If you had 2 versions of Ae open, both would create layers in both. For some users, multiple versions of Ae would open. There was also no way to know if there was a problem with a host app receiving messages.

In v2, you send messages to a specific apps and are only able to send to apps that are open. What you see on this page is much clearer picture of how Overlord is sharing data.

New in 2.4.0

Show or hide buttons in the plugin/extension panels from within the Hosts section of the app. Click Edit plugin button visibility to enter edit mode and switch buttons on or off. Save to update the buttons in each app.

Overlord will check for updates once per day and notify you in the menubar when updates are available. Open the app to Updates to download and install the newest releases of Overlord.

All the boring stuff about Overlord lives here.

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Unlink this machine

Click Unlink this machine to deauthorize your license key on the current computer. This allows the license key to be used on a different computer and will lock the app on your current machine. This may also be done on the manifest page but it's quicker to do it within the app.

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