hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're doing really really well in this video i'm gonna
be showing you how to set up alert box version one on your stream labs obs software those of you that
don't know what alert box actually is uh alert box is where you see when somebody follows or
give bits or donates or whatever on someone's stream it's where the um gif appears and some
writing appears on screen at a certain point and you can resize the alert box you can configure the
text size uh the duration the sound levels all kinds of different stuff but it's essentially
an overlay of a notification uh with information about what's happened but it's highly customizable
and in this video i'll show you exactly how you can set it up how you can add it to your
streamlabs obs and also of course how you can customize it to its fullest we will briefly
touch on uh custom themes for it as well but i'll do a more detailed video about custom themes most
custom themes now tend to come with also some custom alert box themes as well i've been using
alert box pretty much since the very start of streaming i would regard this as one of the most
important aspects of things that you should be setting up on your stream you probably should be
setting this up really in the first week or maybe even before you go live but certainly within the
first week or so i remember for the first few days of streaming i actually didn't have this
set up i got a new follower and the alert did not appear and the guy actually said in my chat
i can't believe that that didn't appear i felt really bad that he didn't get the kind of kudos
that uh most people get when when they followed i think viewers have come to expect this so it's a
good thing to add to your stream it's not specific to streamlabs obs it's also not specific to twitch
or youtube you can have it on twitch youtube facebook gaming you can also have it on xsplit
on obs on stream elements on a number of others it's essentially a widget or a browser source i do
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if you navigate to streamlabs.com once you've done that you can log in using your twitch credentials
or your youtube credentials essentially you've got a load of different options that you can use with
streamlabs on online loads of different functions are free and there's also some extra paid
functions for prime if you do decide to upgrade to prime check the link in the description below
and you'll get a money off that you will get by using my affiliate code so alert box is one of
the free functions so you do not need to upgrade to use alert box so once you've navigated and
logged in you can simply select on alert box now there are two versions of alert box i'm gonna be
going through version one in this video and i'll have a separate video for version two alert box
version one is their established version and version two is currently in beta make sure
that it is uh either toggle to version one or two depending on what you want
there is a tutorial button here which will be very similar to the tutorial i'm giving you
the problem with the streamlabs tutorial videos is they don't go into a lot of depth they really give
you kind of the skin deep information the absolute minimum information to get it going and that's the
reason why i've done lots of different tutorials around streamlabs streamlabs online integrates
very well with streamlabs obs we'll forget about these custom themes for the time being
but essentially with with these custom themes you can import the custom css or customized alert
box themes and alerts and when you get into this you're greeted with all the settings there's a lot
of settings and it can be quite overwhelming we'll break them down and go into them one by one first
of all you've got the option here at the very top to choose which events you want the alert box to
apply to so for instance if you want follows to work but subscriptions you don't want there to be
an alert on screen then you simply make that tick there and as you do that this url will change so
we'll not copy the url for the widget the browser source just yet a key one here if you don't have
merch there's no point in having it on um cloud bot redemptions and redemptions these can get
quite annoying most of the others you're probably going to have we've got the opportunity here to
test all of the different things here which we'll get into a little bit later general settings the
background query you can basically ignore this for now this is a background call for preview purposes
only the alert delay this is a whatever the delay will be on your alert so when somebody subscribes
for example do you want to wait two seconds or would you prefer to wait 30 seconds before the
alert goes off then we get into some moderation tools here so unlimited alert moderation delay
is essentially like a censorship review and all this means when you enable it you have to enable
the alerts and to be approved manually this is going to be really important if you allow messages
custom text message you may want to just have mods that are approving if moderator is a proven event
it's uncensored for the streamer so all that does is it means that there's a censorship for
the viewers but not for the streamer you can add an alert moderation delay so this is just a delay
for the actual moderator of up to 600 seconds which is an insane amount really now we get into
the actual layout itself and all this is is you get a picture and some text or if you just want
text over the top of the picture or if you want to text the right of the picture it's again just
personal preference resetting the stream labels session automatically bear in mind these are
global settings i think all this does is refresh the settings almost like a caching facility
so that if there are new alerts to come through it will allow them to come through or not by default
it's undisabled i would probably leave it as disabled alert parries all this does is allow your
alerts to interrupt each other so if you disable it you'll have one alert complete itself if you
enable it what will happen is the net a new alert that comes along will interrupt an alert in front
of it if you're a really big streamer and with massive high volume you might want to enable that
but most people i think the same way that will be the right move you can have some profanity words
filters here replacing bad words with happy words adding messages with bad words so you can hide
them all together or disable alerts containing the bad words there is a standard bad word list so
you can enable that standard bad word a list which you can add to and moderate yourself and anonymize
names containing bad words so anything that contains bad words it will anonymize but again
kind of defeats the object of having the alert box if you're anonymizing the person that's done it in
which case you'd be better off just hanging having a profanity filter that disables the
alert containing bad words to be honest click save settings once you've made your changes
and now all we do is we're going to go into every single setting so for now i'll just go through the
settings and follows but depend for each of these different events you can specifically customize
virtually everything and it's really really good that they offer that level of flexibility
completely for free first of all you've got the option to enable or disable it here but that's
kind of controlled here anyway and again you've got the option to do the layout of the alert so
we've already done it at global level now we'll do it at specific follower level it may be the case
that for follows you want it the picture above and the text below rather than overlaying and
so on we've got some alert animations different animations allow different things so fading in
and down and it's just purely the animation of how the alert itself appears i'm not going to
go through every single one of these but they all do different things like bouncing onto the screen
or sliding onto the screen or flipping onto the screen fading in is pretty cool to be
honest and then you've also got an option for it to fade in or out you can now have a message
template and again this is specific for follows but you want to be careful here because there's a
trade-off between not having too much text so i'm going to remove that but it just shows that it can
be customized you can then separately define the text animation if you want you can select an image
so here's the fun part you can actually select an image that can appear when uh somebody actually
in this case follows so you can choose to upload by clicking this button here from the uploads here
drag and drop to upload but there are a number of stock images and gifs available already so you
might want to choose these for the time being and then at a later stage when you get a bit more time
to customize these with your own gif images so you can literally select something for instance
whatever the option here for the link if it's a hosted image you can select a hosted image and
it will drag that hosted image from online it's normally best to upload an image so that it's
hosted onto streamlabs and their content servers you do the same thing with an audio file if
there's an existing audio file you can link it or you can select one and again there are a number of
existing ones available already we can browse through a number of different sounds that are
available or you can literally upload your own sound here's where you can choose the volume
of that sound bear in mind this is just the base volume here you do also get option to control that
within streamlabs obs you can here choose the duration of the alert and then an alert delay
um specifically for the followers again we've already gone through the
general global settings what we can do here is enable or disable custom css now if you
have integrated and set up alert box themes what happens as part of that setup is it will enable
the custom css and it will drop in the code for that by default this is set to disabled
now i've got custom themed css alert boxes and i'll do a separate video on that if
you're interested in how to do that so for me the images and the text sizes and the padding and all
the other stuff is pulled in from an overarching theme html css javascript and then custom fields
if you're not planning on using custom themes just leave this as disabled we can specifically
go into more detail about fonts the color of the font the weight the size and the font itself and
also you may want to add variations on the default settings as well so for instance if you want three
or four different follows alerts you can do that by adding variations in here and it will
pull in different settings and it'll mean it'll randomize the selection of the alert that comes up
you can literally customize all of these one by one to your liking at this point once you've done
all that you can hit save settings here and then all we would want to do there is copy the link you
get a confirmation that it's copied to clipboard here and now we jump over to streamlabs obs to add
this as a browser source onto your stream so once you're in streamlabs obs here you want to find
and locate the scene that you want to add the source to let's say if i want to add it to
this one here as opposed to this one by the way i've also done a separate video on how to do
transitions like this on the video then within sources you want to click add new we want to
add a browser source click add source toggle to add new source instead we can give it a
name add the source at this point what happens you'll see that the source has appeared here
with a placeholder image we want to paste in the browser source url you can choose whether these
these are all standard settings when you add any browser source not just alert box uh whether it's
stored on a local file you can set the width and the height although you can resize this anyway
so that's irrelevant using custom frame rates if you want controlling or audio via obs custom css
shutdown source when not visible i just tend to leave these as default but you may have a
press preference there once you've done that we can click ok and that now is our alert box
if we want to also here within the sources we can right click this and copy the actual source and
paste it into different scenes we can resize this to be any size you want let's let's just make it
super super huge and put it in the middle of the screen so bear in mind the actual browser source
covers this section of the scene even though you can see my streamlabs obs which i'm recording this
video in and also the settings for the alert box here now i could just do a test follow
now bear in mind for me i've got custom themes installed on mine so there should be some custom
themes that appear through the css and the html and javascript that i've gotten that i showed you
earlier now we can do a simple test by clicking um the test follow button here as an example
and there you go this is pulled in my synthwave css once again we can taste test something
else for instance a raid again for me it's a different theme so that's what appears on mice
i mean i wouldn't mind an 896 raid that'll be fun final thing uh you may also even though it's not
a part of this particular video you may also want to have a notification that appears in your chat
as a text message in the chat that says so so has subscribed or followed or whatever and
that literally will mirror the activities that are taking place it's just a better experience
because there's a confirmation on the screen and also in the chat that will also help you as the
streamer to see the notifications better i've done a separate video about chat alerts and i will also
link that in the description below one very quick note as well is another alternative to copying
the browser source and pasting in as a browser source url if you're using streamlabs obs and bear
in mind those alert boxes will work on obs studio and xsplit and other different streaming softwares
if you are specifically using streamlabs obs you can click add source and instead just select the
alert box widget and all that does is pull in some of the settings but just uh have a look
here add source it pulls in some of the settings and this just allows you to make some of those
changes that we made on the web browser within the software without having to go on the web browser
and this is the benefit of using streamlabs obs and also streamlabs online they integrate very
well together it just gives you a little bit more flexibility to do it within the software
so there you have it how you can easily set up alert box version one from stream labs
online into your stream labs obs hopefully you found this video useful if you have give
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