Having a chat overlay on your stream is a great way to be able to go ahead
and increase engagement because viewers love to see their name pop up on screen.
So in today's video, I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and set up your chat
overlay directly inside of OBS studio.
Let's go ahead and dive in.
So the very first thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna wanna make
sure you have your OBS studio open.
Then you wanna gonna come to stream elements.com and I'll put a link
in the description of this video.
Once you get to this webpage, you're gonna want to go ahead and log in
with your Twitch account, and then it's gonna ask you to authorize Twitch
to have access to stream elements.
And then you're gonna see a dashboard just like this.
On the left hand side, you're gonna select streaming tools, you're gonna
select overlays, and we're gonna go ahead and create a new overlay.
We'll go ahead and bring.
It's gonna say overlay resolution, you're gonna leave it at 10 80 p and
then you're gonna go ahead and hit start.
Now we're gonna come to this plus icon here at the bottom and we're gonna
select stream tools, your stream chat.
So now you can see here that we have this black box and what we want to do now is
we wanna go ahead and customize this.
So to be able to do that, we first wanna go ahead and use Dark Chat.
We'll leave it there for just a few.
Show message permanently, and then you can go ahead and put a delay for two seconds.
This is what I recommend.
That way you can give people time and they don't try to spam, and
it keeps the chat flowing nicely.
So next we want come to where it says position, size, and style.
So the first thing we want to do is we want to go ahead and make
sure that it's at 5 41 by six 70.
This is gonna give you a nice.
Size, and then we can resize it directly inside of obs.
Then we want to come to where it says text settings.
We're first gonna go ahead and enable the custom font.
We're gonna name this impact, and that's gonna give us a nice, bold, easy to read.
And then we're gonna check this color and we're gonna make it white.
And then from there, what we want to do is text size.
We wanna put this at about 25.
That's about a good size and you can always adjust this later.
So now that we have that in place, we wanna go ahead and hit save.
And once you hit save, you're gonna name this overlay chat.
You're gonna hit save.
And now we wanna do is we wanna grab this paper clip and what we'll come back here
to stream elements in just a few seconds cuz there is one setting that we need
to adjust before finalizing everything.
So we'll come back to o Bs studio, we'll come to the scene where we
want to go ahead and add this.
Okay.
And you can see I have the chat here, so I'll delete this one here for the moment.
And then what we wanna do is we wanna go and use the plus icon.
We're gonna come to Browser Source.
We wanna name this chat, you'll simply select.
Okay, and now here where it says url, we're gonna go ahead and paste
the link that we just went ahead and copied from Stream Elements.
Then for the whiff, we're gonna do 1920.
Okay.
By 10 80, and then you're gonna press, okay, and you're gonna see
here that the chat is gonna go ahead and come up here for this black box.
So now we wanna do is we wanna position this where you're gonna want your chat
and we want to go ahead and test this.
So if you've gone ahead and come to settings inside of your O B S studio
and you've connected your Twitch account, then you should have a chat
option pulled up just like this.
If you.
You can go ahead and do this directly on the Twitch app as well.
So we're gonna say this is a test just to make sure everything is working.
We should see the chat pop up here.
Perfect.
It's popping up.
So now we wanna come back to stream elements and make an adjustment.
So inside of Stream Elements, we're gonna come now and make the chat transparent.
That way this black border is not blocking anything on your stream.
So to be able to make this transparent, we're gonna come to
settings in where it says Dark Chat.
You're gonna select custom.
Once you do that, you're gonna see here that it's gonna go ahead and adjust.
Now I want to go ahead and make the size of this text a little bit bigger,
so I'm gonna go ahead and use 30.
It's gonna give it a nice size, and the beautiful thing is once you
hit save, it's gonna automatically update inside of obs Studio.
So let's go ahead and come back to obs.
We can go ahead and do another test.
This is a test.
We'll go ahead and see it pop up and now you'll see here that now
we have our transparent chat.
Now if you want any of the overlays that you see that I'm utilizing,
like this countdown timer, you can come to StreamDesignz.com
where they have tons of overlays.
You can select from emotes, static Twitch panels, stinger transition, and
so much for you to be able to utilize.
So I'll put the link in the description of this video.
Now, this isn't the only way to be able to go ahead and increase engagement.
There is a way for you to be able to get more followers, more subscribers,
and that's by utilizing stream alerts.
So go ahead and watch this video right here where I walk you step by
step on how to set up stream alerts.
That way when somebody follows the subscribes, their name pops
up on screen, which makes other people want to do the same.
So go ahead and click that video right there to learn
how to set up stream alerts.
I'll see you guys in the next video.