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Building the cool streaming overlays in OBS:

A project log for Control My Lights

Control My Lights using a website, Twitch chat, YouTube chat. controlmylights.net

edward-c-deaver-ivEdward C. Deaver, IV 10/16/2020 at 21:070 Comments

Adding a donation overlay: 

To get Tiltify, (the charity platform for this project), updates when someone donated I used a part of Streamlabs. Using their Alert Box I was able to connect the Tiltify campaign and show a message / animation when someone donated. In OBS I set the browser to point to my Streamlabs alertbox URL.   

Adding analytics overlay:

I wanted to give a sense of gamification and community across the different platforms, so I decided to display the viewership numbers across all platforms. For the website, I screen-grabbed the Google analytics real-time visitor count. Twitch and YouTube are both just screen grabs of their streams.   

Text design:

I wanted the overlay text to give a futuristic, clean vibe coupled with being easy to read. This brought me to using Adam GG Pro. I purchased a commercial desktop license.    

Color Command slideshow:

To get the color command slideshow I took screen shots of the color commands on the website. Then I brought the screengrab into Affinity Designer, removed the purple background and created a new image per row of the commands. Those are fed to OBS Studio Slideshow. 

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