What's up guys, welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel,
where we aim to teach you everything you
need to know to make it as a streamer or
a content creator in the gaming niche.
Today's video we're going to be looking
at a brand new feature in Streamlabs
OBS. Something that they've had in the
back end of Streamlabs OBS for a little
while but they haven't linked it to
alerts until this latest release.
That is face masks. What face masks
are, they are ways that your viewers can
donate and apply a special filter to
your webcam like those
silly snapchat filters, where they make
you into a dog and things like that. They
can choose one of these filters which will
apply live to you in your stream within
Streamlabs OBS.
I'm going to teach you all about it,
talk to you about all the different
types of filters, and show you exactly
how to set it up in this video, so let's
check it out. So I think the main reason
that Streamlabs OBS have decided to add
this feature is obviously to encourage
donations. This is a massive incentive
for your viewers to be able to have more
of an impact on your stream by donating.
Previously people have been able to
write messages and maybe have
text-to-speech converting their donation
message, but this is a real way to
interact and make other people
that are watching your stream laugh. I
think it's a really great idea and I
haven't seen many people using it even
though it came out in the latest version
of Streamlabs OBS and maybe that's
because they don't know about it yet.
Hopefully I am going to be teaching
everybody how to do it and encouraging
more people to use it. But it's definitely
going to incentivize your viewers to
donate to you more, because they can have
more of an impact on the outcome of your
stream. It is probably worth me
mentioning that this is exclusive to
Streamlabs OBS, so this functionality
does not exist within regular OBS Studio.
Obviously Streamlabs OBS are trying to
create some features that differentiate
themselves from the core OBS Studio
package that they brought over when they
first came out with the software. I think
this really is one of the
greater features and one of the reasons
some people might start to transition
over to Streamlabs OBS. So obviously if
you haven't yet downloaded Streamlabs
OBS, I have a link at the top of the
description where you can download it.
We're going to have a look at the 17
filters now that are included within the
SLOBS face mask plugin,
so as you can see Streamlabs OBS have
come out with 17 different face masks on
this release. I'm sure they're going to add
more over time and I don't know if
they're going to open up for developers to
add more and things like that. I'd
imagine so, but for now we have 17 to
choose from. You can see underneath
each one that they have a rarity, so
let's just have a look through some of
the ones that you can get. They have one
called tea bag which seems to drop a tea
bag on your head and sort of affect the
shape of your face. Calculated, which is
that one with all the maths equations
running around your head. Hot dogs,
call of God, make it rain, you can see
some of the examples here but they also
as you can see underneath have a rarity
for each one. So the reason that the
masks have a rarity comes down to how
the actual face mask donation works. If
you as a viewer go to donate to one of
your streamers that have face masks
enabled, how it works is you will roll a
random mask to unlock it permanently. So
to start you'll roll a random mask and
based on its rarity, you can see some of
them will be more common to unlock than
others. You're randomly rolled masks will
then appear on these streamers face.
So the first time you donate you really
have no choice as to what mask is going
to appear, but you're randomly rolled one
will appear along with your donation
message. Since you have
unlocked this mask, you can use it in future
donations or you can choose to randomly
roll to unlock a different one. So if
you're donating often to a streamer then
you're going to have lots of
choices as to which face mask gets used,
but if you are just looking to donate
once then it's going to be completely
random and obviously the more rare ones
are more rare. They're going to be
appearing above the streamers face. Okay
so I've convinced you and you've decided
that you want to enable these face
alerts into your stream to encourage
more donations from your viewers. How do
you actually go about doing it? Well it's
very simple. You come across to your
Streamlabs OBS software, go across to
the dashboard and you should see an
option down here that says face masks.
If you click that, you'll see an example
of some of the face masks being used and
all you have to do is click here to
enable face masks and you get the choice
of which device you want to add face
masks too.
Here is where you're going to be
selecting your webcam, your camera if you
have a capture card or however you're
capturing your camera. This is where you
need to select it so for me I've got a
mirrorless camera plugged into an elgato
cam link, so I need to select that device
here. If you have a webcam it will be the
name of your webcam, really it's whatever
the source is called in Streamlabs OBS.
So just click Save and you can
see that we have a few different options
here to play with. I'm sure more options
are going to come around but for now
it's really just how long you want the
face mask to last for, and how loud you
want the alert volume to play for. So I
personally would turn the volume down a
bit just because of how I've got my
stream set up and maybe I'd reduce the
duration from 20 seconds but we can
leave that default. Click save settings
and then everything should be set up for
you. Once you've done that you can come
back across to the editor or
where the stream setup section of Streamlabs
OBS is, come down to the bottom right,
click test widgets. You should see you've
got this mask button now and if you
click that you should see a test of what
it would look like when somebody donates.
So let's see which one I get and there
you go, I got the purple eyes I think
they're called or sparkly eyes. You can see
where the donation message will come as
well, so you can you keep on
clicking through mask and see some of the
variations that come up. This looks so
silly with me talking whilst having
these eyes and I really do think that
this is going to be an amazing feature. One
which honestly might make some people
switch from regular OBS to Streamlabs
OBS. I really can't wait to see what they
do in the future in terms of more face
masks. I'd love to see a disco one
where disco lights are going on
and maybe you get like a big afro with an
80s wig type thing. I think there's so
many options here to really spice up
your stream and make donating a real
incentive for your viewers. Hopefully you
found this quick guide very helpful and
you now have face masks set up within
Streamlabs OBS for your stream. I
really would like to see some of your
twitch clips of people donating to you
using this function, I'd love to see some
examples of this being used in the wild,
so do send them to me on Twitter, send
them to me on discord, however you need
to get in touch. I would love to see them,
I'll probably
tweet some of my favorites. As always I
would like to give a massive thanks to
my patrons, if you have not yet checked
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that are helping support Gaming Careers
month to month, enabling me to do this
full time and keep creating tutorials.
Also I want to say that it is a couple
of weeks away from Twitchcon now, which
I'll be flying over to the United States
to go and be a part of Twitchcon. I'm
going to be at a lot of the different
talks and presentations and things like
that as well as just hanging out so if
you are heading to Twitchcon also, do get
in touch, I'd love to meet up with some
of you and have a beer or have
a coffee or whatever it ends up being.
Thank you very much for watching,
subscribers I will see you in the next
video. Peace!