Question / Help How to set up OBS correctly | Game Stream | Sources/Scenes

[Retilus]

Hello everyone,

so i just started streaming for a few friends of mine, to show them some games they didn´t play. So they can decide on which choices to do and also how to minmax in certain games. Or just for fun.
Now i have a few scenes:
- a "Game" scene that capures the game (obviously, duh)
- a Spotify Scene that records the music
- an entire screencapture in case i want to show them somth on the browser or desktop/documents
- and one for break time.

My question: is there something like a automatic source switcher that switches to defined games and captures them if none of the others is running?
Right now i have to edit the game capture everytime i want to switch to another game. I know theres a Fullscreen thing, but all my games are set to fullscreen (borderless window).

For example, i want to stream WoW and my game capture is set on WoW, but no i want to stream League or something else, then i have to manually switch the source of the game scene to League. In that time the screen is just black because wow is closed but league takes a while to start.

Maybe someone who has experience knows how to setup scenes/sources the right way.
I already searched this forum and also watched a few OBS guides, but i found none that explains my problem.
I hope you understand what i mean, because my english isnt that good. Sorry!^^

best regards
Retilus

P.S.: if anyone has time i would also appreciate if we could talk together in discord so i could show and explain what i mean.

 

[Narcogen]

The options are:

1) Create a different Scene for each game, containing a Game capture source configured for each game;
2) Create a single Game scene and reconfigure the game capture source on a per-game basis.

Do NOT use multiple game captures in a single scene; even hidden they can conflict and degrade OBS performance.

Create another scene to switch to while you reconfigure the game capture; either a video loop or an image and some BG music.

My usual setup includes a minimum of 4 scenes:

Intro/Countdown with image, video loop, countdown and browser chat source
Break screen (same as above with longer timer for bio breaks)
Thanks screen (outro) same as above with just a message to thank the audience and a hidden timer that fades to black when its done

Game screen (game capture plus lower thirds for last sub, alerts, death counters, etc).

Microphones are usually live ONLY in the game screen, and the other 3 all have a trailer or some music playing.

I also usually have one more scene that I can switch to in case of technical difficulties, a simple static image or a quiet video loop, where mics are active so we can talk to the audience while I set something up, reconfigure it, address a technical glitch, whatever, but isn't a full-on "break" that could be 5-10 minutes.