Question / Help Features Says Custom Transitions?

[Fourgees]

Hey all,

been using OBS for awhile and wanna start delving into the deeper meat of the program - it says on the main website under features that there are custom transitions but...How? I've done a few google searches but with no luck. There are some work around for doing custom transitions i've found but would rather do them internally if the feature list is to be believed. Thanks for any help!

 

[Nirrudn]

So I did some digging on this and figured out how to do a custom luma wipe. There's 3 key things to making a custom transition:

1. Your image file of the transition effect, obviously. This goes inside the OBS installation folder at data\obs-plugins\obs-transitions\luma_wipes . You can look at the other images in that folder for examples of the existing luma wipes and how they work/animate.
2. Inside that same folder is "wipes.json" which you need to edit to add your new image to the list. A simple text editor will work fine. Again the existing structure should give you an idea of how to define your new image.
3. In "data\obs-plugins\obs-transitions\locale" are a bunch of language files, you need to open up the language file that OBS uses for you (en-US.ini in my case) and add in your transition to give it a localized name, this is how it will appear in the dropdown menu. The left side corresponds with the .json file from step 2.

Once you've added the image, registered it with the .json file, and added a localized name for it, restarting OBS should show it in your list of possible Luma Wipes.

 

[Fourgees]

Took me a bit to understand what you wrote and implement it but it worked! Thanks! I'll be playing around with these now to see what cool transitions I can come up with.

Thanks again.

P.s. where did you find the info to do all this?

 

[Nirrudn]

P.s. where did you find the info to do all this?

I just poked around with the files until I figured it out, honestly. I've searched for how to do this before to no avail.

 

[Yurlyn]

If you are a little bit handy with video editing or you know someone who is you can also use this https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/video-transition-stinger-transition.498/ to give you that unique feel :D

 

[Fourgees]

If you are a little bit handy with video editing or you know someone who is you can also use this https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/video-transition-stinger-transition.498/ to give you that unique feel :D

THIS! THis is what I was looking for! Thank you so much.

 

[Yurlyn]

No problem :D I would use it myself if my current setup wasn't so dependent on external things. It works so well :D

 

[yonyonyon]

Can you add more than one custom luma wipe?