Question / Help Can you make OBS ignore Fullscreen

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Egobyte83

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Is it possible to have a source in OBS Studio ignore if you toggle the source-program itself into fullscreen? I want to have customized dimensions for the source window in my stream that never changes regardless of windowed or fullscreen mode, but if I toggle the source-program to fullscreen on a secondary monitor, the dimensions for the source follow suit and changes in OBS as well. This makes it very difficult to adjust the dimensions that I want the source to output during fullscreen. Is there any way to bypass this?
 
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Egobyte83

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Suslik V said:
Depending on the effect you want to get, set Bounding Box Type of the source's Transform other than No Bounds.

OBS Studio Help Guide: https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...ware-studio-multiplatform-help-guide-pdf.365/
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Problem is, if I use any of the other settings for the bounding box, I can't crop away the black borders that come with a 4:3 game being projected in fullscreen on a 16:9 monitor. Using any of the other settings for the bounding box squishes the entire 16:9 fullscreen into the box, black borders and all, and they even show up no matter how wide I drag the source. I should probably mention that I don't even know what these inner and outer bounds are, I'm just trying to experiment my way forward with the different settings.

Though it was a pain, with no bounds I could always crop the black borders and make the projected source fit nicely into the set borders on my customized backdrop. However, this process was way too infuriating as I had to roughly estimate the ratio by making educated guesses as to what the fullscreen game was going to look like. I had to resize the source for when it would show up as windowed, while at the same time take into account the estimated difference between what the source looked like as the game was in windowed mode as opposed to what the source looked like when the game was in fullscreen, thereby indirectly determining what the dimensions would be for a fullscreen game. An extremely convoluted process. It was also kind of unreliable as the dimensions would screw up once in a while for some unknown reason and I had to do it all over again.

It would be so nice if I could just resize the source in OBS as I want it, crop the borders, and then make OBS ignore fullscreen toggle for the source.
 
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Suslik V

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Why you can't crop first and then change bounding box or why you can't use Crop/Pad filter? Also, OBS Studio has Scaling/Aspect Ratio filter where you can fix aspect ratio to any new value or set Size in Transform.
 
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Egobyte83

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Suslik V said:
Why you can't crop first and then change bounding box or why you can't use Crop/Pad filter? Also, OBS Studio has Scaling/Aspect Ratio filter where you can fix aspect ratio to any new value or set Size in Transform.
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I haven't really tried to use any filters yet. I will try your suggestions when I get home. :)
 
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