Question / Help Help with webcam layer for Twitch stream

[Garnett]

Help for a new user please. I've searched and not been able to find an answer to my problem.

I simply want to add a window box with my webcam feed to my stream feed to Twitch. Everytime I try I can see the webcam in stream preview by itself. I can see the game--I've been testing with D3--if I alt-tab to the game and then back to the desk top, but the webcam refuses to work as a layer over the game feed.

I've tried setting it up as a global, moving it to top in order, all with the same result.

What am I missing?

 

[Sapiens]

I can see the game--I've been testing with D3--if I alt-tab to the game and then back to the desk top, but the webcam refuses to work as a layer over the game feed.

Refuses to work how, exactly? Can you post a screenshot of the OBS window?

 

[Garnett]

When I fire up OBS and create a D3 scene it will be black in preview until I alt-tab to the game and then back to the desktop for OBS. Once I do that Diablo 3 will be showing in preview.

If I then turn on the webcam scene it does not appear in the preview. But if I switch to it, it becomes the only thing in the preview. I can then edit to resize and drag it to where I want it and all that but it will not overlay the game. And once I have gotten it visible, then selecting the D3 scene shows a black screen again until I alt-tab to the game and back again.

To see if the webcam just wasn't previewing I tried a couple of quick tests but no, only the in-game shows.

I am using a 770 GTX and have the new beta drivers which I read have an issue with NVENC so I have encoding set to x264. Webcam is the logi C920

 

[eathdemon]

you confused scenes and layers. scenes contain several layers. the layers show from the top down. in edit scene in preview stream you can re size it. put the camera layer on top of the other layers in the same scene and re size it.

 

[Garnett]

Yes, thanks so much eathdemon. That's exactly it. What I didn't grok was that I want one Scene to represent playing a game, say for instance Diablo 3. And then I can bring in multiple sources to that scene. I completely misunderstood and thought I needed to create a new scene for each input I wanted to bring in.

So if I understand correctly now, the scenes I'd use to have setup for each of my different games. Like a Diablo 3 scene, Hearthstone scene, etc. Right?

 

[eathdemon]

if you are only playing one game at a time you can drop them on the same scene. you only need more than one, if you were switching between several different things at once. but only one scene is needed for what you want to do.

 

[Cryonic]

Yeah you can have a scene for each game. But you can also change the layers/sources live while streaming. Most people will have one scene for the current game and one for browser/desktop/fullscreen cam.