Support the overlay

[imLinguin]

At least on Windows and Mac it's doable.
Requires opening named pipe connections to one of the pipes \\.\pipe\Galaxy-{PID}-CommunicationService-Overlay
I assume the connection there is also protobuf encoded.

As for Windows games running on Mac and Linux this would require some sort of proxy to let wine process talk with the pipes from "native" world.

Need some input on possibilities and feedback if this feature would be viable

Forwarding of pipes will be handled by https://github.com/imLinguin/galaxy-helper

Check-list

• Enable overlay for native Windows and Mac builds
• Consider a solution for Wine problem

[imLinguin]

It seems that in order for this to work, we'll need further integrations in parts that launch games. In order to trigger overlay injection.

For Linux I believe the best bet would be to have a native overlay that we can inject automatically through LD or Vulkan layers (I still need to research that).

[istudyatuni]

Do I understand correctly that this is about showing notifications such as achievements?

[Fieryfire]

I don't receive any notifications for achievements is that an issue

[imLinguin]

I've started some work towards overlay support.
Introducing galaxy_helper an utility that will run on Wine/Proton side and take care of injecting overlay to game processes as well as handle forwarding pipes between native and windows "worlds".

[imLinguin]

Updated the wiki. If anyone is willing to test current state of the overlay, here are the details https://github.com/imLinguin/comet/wiki/Overlay

Right now you need the absolute latest comet build from git for this to work. Also this supports Linux only right now together with windows versions of games.

note: when galaxy.exe is used it will always try to inject the overlay, even if game doesn't support it

[Fieryfire]

Updated the wiki. If anyone is willing to test current state of the overlay, here are the details https://github.com/imLinguin/comet/wiki/Overlay

Right now you need the absolute latest comet build from git for this to work. Also this supports Linux only right now together with windows versions of games.

note: when galaxy.exe is used it will always try to inject the overlay, even if game doesn't support it

I am trying to test it out but do not know how to. Heroic launcher 2.15.2 still shows comet at 0.1.2 and not 0.2. Are you able to release it to heroic launcher as well please?

[istudyatuni]

Heroic launcher 2.15.2 still shows comet at 0.1.2 and not 0.2

Overlay not released yet, you should build from source

[Fieryfire]

Heroic launcher 2.15.2 still shows comet at 0.1.2 and not 0.2

Overlay not released yet, you should build from source

Hello comet. Im not sure how to update heroic to use the new comet and also I don't know to install galaxy helper. I'm on steam deck and not native Linux user. Can you teach me. Or is there perhaps an ETA on when it's coming on mainline heroic please. I'm waiting for this update before starting my gog library of games. Thanks bro. Love the work you do

[Fieryfire]

Any news for a release my brothers?

[Fieryfire]

Looks like comet 0.2 is out on heroic. do you guys know if the achievement notification works on this release?

[imLinguin]

Hey, I'm still troubleshooting issues with game invitations in the overlay, I want to get this feature as stable as fast as possible, however I'm quite busy with other things.