What's up guys, welcome back once again to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel,
where we aim to teach you everything that you need to know about live-streaming
and about content creation within the gaming niche. Today's videos is for
those streamers out there that have been thinking: 'Wouldn't it be nice if my
entire streaming set up looked super consistent?'. You want your
overlays, your alerts, your donation tickers, your recent subs, all of these
designs to look totally awesome and super consistent. Well today we are going
to be looking at streamlabs OBS' solution to the problem, which they are
calling widget themes. These are free themes that they built that can style
all of these kind of widgets that you use on your stream. We're also going to
be looking at some premium options and there's a exciting little exclusive
announcement that I'll be giving towards the end of the video, but we're gonna
start with the free options that streamlabs OBS offers. Let's dive in!
So streamlabs announced this feature in one of their updates a couple of weeks ago. If
you go across to the library tab and click widget themes, you can see as of
right now they've added about 25 free widget themes to get us started.
They have mentioned that they are promising over 500 of these widget
themes are going to be added over the coming months, so even if none of these
widget themes take your fancy right now it's still worth learning exactly how to
add and customize them because in the future maybe they will add a widget
theme that you quite like. As you can see here they have added various different
styles many of which have taken inspiration from a certain game. If you
click into one of the widget themes you get taken to a listing page which shows
lots of different screenshots on how each of the widgets look as well as a
list showing which of the Stream labs widgets are supported by that theme.
Personally I like the design of this one, which is called vivid IRL and I'm just
going to quickly look first to see if there is an overlay theme with the same
name, since I want everything including my stream starting soon scene and my
be right back scene to look super consistent. As you can see Streamlabs
have got an overlay called vivid IRL, it's very simple but is exactly what I'm
looking for and it's going to integrate nicely when I eventually add the widget
theme of the same name. So I'm going to install that and once it has installed
you can see that it has some fields here to display my Twitter, Instagram and
YouTube. So I'm just going to quickly edit these so that you can get a rough
idea of how my stream might look using this overlay. Since I don't have an
Instagram for Gaming Careers I think I'll just rename this one Patreon and
put my Patreon username in here instead. The last thing I'll do before installing
the widget theme is just swap over to the live scene and replace this default
background image with something that looks a little bit more like a game,
although of course this is where you would actually would be replacing this
with your game capture or window capture. And I'll also just add a webcam still
image up here so that you can get a good representation of how this design might
look when we stream. Okay so this is looking pretty good but now it's time to
add the real bits of magic which are the widgets. So let's head back to the
library tab and click on widget themes, find the one that we want to install and
click 'install widget theme'. This will then add the widget theme to your
currently selected scene collection. Now by default every widget that the theme
supports is added to your scene, which may look like it's too many but it's of
course super easy to remove the ones that you want to remove. So let's look at
what has been added, right up here at the top we have the stream boss widget. Now
this is a widget for those of you that don't know that allows your viewers to
seize the opportunity to become a boss in your channel by interacting with your
stream. This is a source that I personally don't really want to display
on my stream, so all I have to do is either hide it by coming over here to
the sources window and clicking the little eye icon next to the stream boss
source, or I can remove it completely by selecting the source right-clicking it
and selecting remove. It's worth me quickly mentioning here that some of
these sources might display a little strangely, most commonly the stream boss
one and the donation goal one. This is because you probably have never set that
widget up before, so if that is the case the widget might display something like
'to set up this source you must configure it in your dashboard' or like for my
donation goal here it says 'you need to set a goal first'. All this means is that
you need to right-click the source, go to properties and then select 'go to widget
settings'. This will take you to the dashboard tab and the correct widget so
that you can set it up properly first. Usually, all that's required is for you to
set a goal up or change some settings just to make sure that you've actually
set up the widget. Then you can click save settings and
head back to the editor. Then you need to right-click the source again, click
properties and scroll down and click 'refresh cache of current page' and the
preview should update to show the proper widget as it was designed. Let's keep
going through our widgets to see which ones we still have. We have a credits
widget which I'm going to cover in a completely separate video at some point,
but for now I'm just going to remove that one. We have the viewer counter
widget which will display on your stream how many viewers you have on Twitch or
on YouTube or whatever platform you're streaming to. I quite like this one so
I'm going to keep this up here in the top left. Next we have our chat box
widget, so to test how that's going to look, I'm going to slide open my stream
chat here on the right-hand side and type in a couple of test messages. Now I
do like the design here but I'm going to make a couple of changes just to the
functionality. First of all I'm going to resize it a little bit, just to make it a
tiny bit bigger and move it over so it is aligned with the right-hand side of
my screen. The second change that I'm going to make is that I don't want the
messages to stay on screen forever, I'd like them to fade out after a certain
number of seconds so that it doesn't look so stale. To do this I just
right-click the source again, click properties and click go to widget
settings. Here in the widget settings for the chat box I want to uncheck the
'always showing messages' box and set the slider to hide the messages after five
seconds. I'll scroll down to the bottom and click Save Settings, head back to the
editor tab and hopefully now if I test a couple more messages, I should see that
they disappear after five seconds.
Next we have our donation ticker, obviously if I had any recent donations
these would show down here. On the left hand side here we have the event list.
Now this is one of my favorite widgets that streamlabs have built and I really
like it in this design. This will show all my recent followers, subscriptions,
donations, bits and hosts. We'll be able to see this in action when we test the
alerts widget in the next section. Finally we have our donation goal which
you saw me set up earlier and our alert box which we will see in action now. So
to test how our alerts will show, we come down here and click test widgets and we
are given all the different types of actions that your viewers can take to
support you. So let's test a few, first we're going to test out what it looks
like when we get a new follower. As you can see the alert box displays an alert
at the top of the screen as well as in the event list we're updating with our
newest event. Let's test out the other actions: subscriptions, donations, bits and
hosts and see how they look.
Now hopefully you can appreciate how easy that was to set up and how quickly
you can get a pretty professional-looking stream design
that's all consistent with each other all set up within streamlabs OBS. Of course
the main disadvantage with the free overlays and the free widget designs
that come included with streamlabs OBS, is that they aren't that customizable and
they are super super popular, so there's probably a hundred other streams that
have the exact same stream design as you on Twitch or on YouTube. There's a
massively emerging market within streaming and on the internet of
companies that want to provide professional stream alerts and stream
overlays and things that you pay for and you can download and then you can
implement yourself into OBS or streamlabs OBS to get a really
professional-looking stream. And over the last year that I've run the Gaming
Careers channel, lots of these companies have reached out to me and asked me to
do some sponsored content, talk about their products to you guys and hopefully
promote them, but I've turned them all down because personally I don't think
that I would use them and I always want to be super transparent and super honest
about the products that I promote to you guys and the companies and brands that I
work with. I really want them to be companies that I myself have used before
and I would definitely recommend using without any sort of financial incentive.
So over the past a year or so that I've been running the Gaming Careers YouTube
channel I've had many of you the Gaming Careers community reach out to me on
YouTube, Twitter, Discord and email asking where I get my overlays
from, where I get my alerts from and where I'd recommend somebody that wanted
to get a more professional looking stream to get these sort of designs from.
And I've always recommended the same company, even though I've never been
associated or affiliated with them, just purely because I think they are the very
very best at what they do. They're called NerdorDie and I was
recommending them to you guys so much in fact that I eventually last week emailed
them and asked them if they would want to work together and to my great
surprise they said that they would. So for those of you that haven't heard of
NerdorDie, it is a place where you can purchase premium design packages of
alerts and overlays and they usually have some sort of theme,
sometimes to do with a game but sometimes just a general design theme that
runs through all of the different widgets that they cover. They've done
some completely custom designs for some really big streamers. People like
MANvsGAME, JoshOG and sodapoppin, they've all had their designs done by
NerdorDie and I said it before but I'll say again I really do think they
are the best place to purchase these things on the Internet. The store allows
you to purchase either the complete full package of all the different elements
that you could possibly need to upgrade your stream, or you can of course just
purchase the individual elements like the alerts or just the overlays. Now the
exciting news is that if you use the custom link that I've included in the
description below this video and then you use the coupon code 'GAMINGCAREERS'
when you get to checkout, you'll get a further 10% off the already discounted
prices. So go and click the link down below in the description and head over
to NerdorDie and check out all the different designs and all the different
packages they offer and grab yourself a discounted price whilst you're at it! I
just want to reiterate that I'm only recommending NerdorDie because I use
them myself so much and remember that I reached out to them because I was
recommending them to you guys so much anyway. I'm super proud to be working
with them and that has allowed me to get you guys a discount on their products so
I hope you appreciate my transparency in working with them and that you can go
and check out their products if you'd like to. If you do purchase one of their
products, the downloads all come with a super easy to follow instructions file
as well as some video examples of how you can add and customize these overlays
into OBS and streamlabs OBS. Hopefully you guys have found this video helpful and
you either have one of streamlabs OBS' free widget themes installed,
or maybe you purchased one of the premium options from NerdorDie. Either
way I'd love for you guys to send me a screenshot or maybe a quick Twitch clip
of how your new stream design is looking and tweet at me at Gaming Careers. I'll
be retweeting some of my favorites. Finally as always I would like to give
a massive thanks to my patrons. These people here are supporting the creation
of these Gaming Careers tutorials to help the greater community learn new
things about streaming and content creation, so massive thanks to these
people here for supporting the creation of these videos and of course if you
would like to support yourself you check out my page on patreon.com slash
gaming career. Finally if you haven't yet joined my discord please do, we're over
400 members and everybody in there, it's just such a great environment to be in,
people talking about streaming, helping each other out, we've got
channels for OBS, streamlabs OBS, Twitch, audio, all those kind of things so join
the discord if you haven't already and subscribers, I'll see you in the next video. Peace!