Applications
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Grid, Player, IM, Games, Doodle, Groups, Smilies and Translate are applications found on tabs on the left of chat group pages. They can be activated and used while chatting with your friends. This Guide will help you get started with applications.
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Grid
The grid allows you to view the avatars of all users who aren’t using a xat default avatar or smilie for an avatar. If you click their avatar you will go to their xatspace, if you mouse-over their avatar and click their name you will see their user details on the chat.
Player
Using the YouTube player you can watch videos while you chat. When you start the player you can click the Link button and watch a video alone, or if you’re a moderator/owner click Broadcast and the video will be sent to all users on the player, unless they have the no broadcast (key) button. The player can play videos from Youtube, Veoh, Youtube Live(Google Hangout), and Myspace video, as well as display Photobucket pictures.
IM
Using xat IM, you can talk to your AIM and MSN friends while on the chat. To find them, go to your xat Friends List and click their name and click Private Chat. Note you can not block, add people, or join in group convos while on xat IM.
Games
Play games with friends on xat! You can find the games on the left hand side of your chat box below the im feature. Games include Chess, Pool, Smilie Shooter, and 4 in a row. For details on games, see Games.
Doodle
Using doodle you can draw with everyone in the chat who is also using doodle. If you Private Chat people you can draw with them alone. Good for playing tic tac toe!
You can also import images from Photobucket into Doodle with the Dood power. See powers for details.
Smilies
Click the smilies tab to view the complete list of all of the avalible smilies. You can click one and it will put it into the chat box for you.
Effects
Clicking your name and clicking “Add Effects” under your picture link will allow you to add cool animated effects to any picture (not counting the “toon” pictures). Below are all available effects and what they do:
- BOUNCE
Bounce makes a smilie “bounce” around your avatar.
- LED
LED lets you write a message to go across your avatar with LED lighted-effects. You can also change the color of the LED lights.
- BEAMS
Beams makes search-light style beams go on your picture.
- BLOOD
Blood makes blood fall down your picture. You can also set the color of the blood.
- EQU
Equ makes DJ-styled bars go on your avatar.
- GLITTER
Glitter allows you to add glitters to your avatar, for an extra shine effect.
- HEARTS
Hearts makes balloon-hearts go up in your pic.
- LIPS
Lips makes kissy-lips go on your picture. You can change the lips to any smilie you like.
- UP
Up makes smilies go up in your picture. You can use any smilie.
- DOWN
Down makes smilies go down your picture. You can use any smilie.
- WALK
Walk makes a smilie “walk” along the edge of your picture.
- SNOW
Snow makes snowflakes fall to the bottom of your picture, and snow build up and eventually break. You can use any smilie and snow color.
- XMAS
Xmas adds christmas lights to your picture.
Trading
To open the xat Trade Engine, either type “Trade” in the chat and click on it or click someones name and click Transfer, then click “Trade” . You can use the trade engine to trade subscriber days, xats, and/or powers amongst users. For more information on trade, please see the Trading article.
Translate
If you are subscribed. Translate allows you to translate your language to a different language. Set your, “Chat Language” to Auto-Detect Language, set, “Your Language” to whatever language you speak and set,”Speak In” to whatever language that you want it to be translated in. It’s used to help people with all sorts of interesting stuff like telling people it’s an, “English Only” chat, etc.
Webcam
The webcam feature is a new innovation added to xat, it allows you to use video chat or voice chat with the person in your private chat. To Use the webcam feature, simply pc the person and make sure the other person is in the pc with you and press either “Voice call” or “Voice Chat”. Once you see the text “Incoming call” Simply press the Blue Button (Video camera icon) or the Green Button (Telephone Icon). Once you see the text “Call Established” in the lower bottom, You can now go to the main chat and move off the pc tab and still be streaming your voice/video to the person you can webcam’ing with.
Frequently Asked Questions about webcam
- What is “Allow xat.com to access your webcam?”
If you access webcam for the first time, you may get a prompt to allow xat.com to access your webcam and microphone. Click okay to allow xat.com to access your webcam. This is required to use the webcam functions and to voice/video call with your friends.
- What is Vrx?
Vrx stands for Video Receive. If this is checked, you will see the other person on webcam; if it is unchecked, you will not see their video.
- What does Vtx stand for?
Vtx stands for Video Transmit and it’s used to change the video quality of the video. You can re-arrange it to make it look blurry or you can make it look clear. By unchecking the box which is above the slider it, it won’t show anything. It will show just a black box instead. The lower the slider is, the faster the webcam performance will be, but the quality will be lowered by a bit. The higher the slider is, the sharper the picture will be. You wont see any quality change, only the person you can using the webcam with will. If you are capped to a certain amount of bandwidth with your ISP(internet service provider), Your frame rate will be slow, the frame rate is how many times per second the picture will update. You will need to adjust the VTX slider until it is adjusted for your usage.
- How do I use the Mic?
Mic stands for Microphone and it’s used to change the volume. You can use the slider to change it from loud to quiet. By unchecking the box which is above the slider it, it will turn the volume off. Above it, it says SPK which stands for Speaker. It’s used to change the volume of the person that’s using the microphone. By unchecking the box, you won’t be able to hear any sound from the person that’s using the mic.
- I am receiving feedback e.g a loud squeaking sound through my speakers.
Adjust your computer speakers to low volume and your microphone to low volume, the feedback should be fine now.
- How do i change Audio Codec/Quality?
To change the audio quality/codec, Click the settings tab on the bottom, this will open a new iframe window. Once you have opened it up, In the 3rd dropdown area, there are 2 codecs. Speex and Nollymoser, The Higher the Q or the higher the frequency, the better the audio quality is.
- I am watching my friend on video chat and I get loud feedback!
Most of the times, you will experience feedback issues with watching someone on webcam/voice chat with them, To solve this issue try lowering the Mic slider lower until it stops feedback. If this doesnt solve it, Try lowering your computer speakers as well.
Common error messages
- Not on Private Chat
It shows the person is not in PC you right now. The person didn’t exit out the window but switched to main instead.
- Incoming Video Call
It shows that the person either wants to use the webcam or the microphone. You can click on the green button or the blue button to accept the invitation but you don’t have to use a webcam or microphone in order to see the person using a webcam/microphone.
- More errors will be entered in here soon!
xat Live
The Live panel lets you manage messages sent while your chat is on Live mode. For more information on this, please refer to the Live article.
Power Applications
- xat Music
xat’s Music power includes a Music Application to use with (piano) smiley, For more information on this, please refer to the Music article.
- (snakeban) – Snake game
xat’s Snakeban power includes a Snake game Application to use with the ban feature, for more information on this, please refer to the Snakeban article.
- (spaceban) – Space Game
xat’s Spaceban power includes a Space game Application to use with the ban feature, for more information on this, please refer to the Spaceban article.
- (matchban) – Matching Game
xat’s Matchban power includes a matching game Application to use with the ban feature, for more information on this, please refer to the Matchban article.
- (mazeban) – Maze Game
xat’s Mazeban power includes a Maze game Application to use with the ban feature, for more information on this, please refer to the Mazeban article.
- (codeban) – Code Game
xat’s Codeban power includes a Code game Application to use with the ban feature, for more information on this, please refer to the Codeban article.
- (doodlerace) – Doodle Race Game
xat’s DoodleRace power includes a DoodleRace Application where users can play, for more information on this, please refer to the DoodleRace article.
- (matchrace) – Match Race Game
xat’s MatchRace power includes a MatchRace Application where users can play, for more information on this, please refer to the MatchRace article.
- (snakerace) – Snake Race Game
xat’s SnakeRace power includes a SnakeRace Application where users can play, for more information on this, please refer to the SnakeRace article.
- (spacewar) – Space War Game
xat’s SpaceWar power includes a SpaceWar Application where users can play, for more information on this, please refer to the SpaceWar article.
- (hearts) – Hearts Card Game
xat’s Hearts power includes a Hearts Application where users can play, for more information on this, please refer to the Hearts article.
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