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
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just such a great environment to be in,
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subscribers, I'll see you in the next video. Peace!
