Hey, guys. I'm trying to learn how to do this for a few projects of mine. I'll list off a couple of example situations of what I want, and then try to explain what I want the end result to be:
"The Tournament"
Once I have my own place, I'll want to periodically host local tournaments and if possible, I'd like to stream them to a local monitor and possibly twitch, as well. This will be a 1v1 situation where players have their own computer and webcam set up to where they can trash talk each other but aren't able to see their opponent's screens. I plan for there to be a third computer where I will be running OBS that is able to stream a composite of both player's screens, their webcams, and possibly other overlay elements like twitch chat or "now playing" cards from music services.
Example output would be a screen with player 1's screen in the top left corner, player 2's screen in the bottom right corner, and in each of the open corners would be one of the players' webcams. Or in a game where the screen could be shared (for example, Spectator mode in League of Legends) the player's webcams could be fringe screen assets along with the aforementioned twitch chat and "now playing" card.
"The Multibox"
For the time being, I'd like to try streaming myself multi-boxing various games I like to play. I'd like to be able to have several different scenes set up in OBS. One for each of my computers' with my webcam composites somewhere on there, and also some more complex composites like "picture in picture" scenes and perhaps even a few potentially cinematic scene setups.
Example output would be Scene 3 in OBS, having my desktop's basic streaming setup scaled a little smaller, to something like 80% and 'snapped' to a corner. Then, I would overlay my laptop's monitor output (or perhaps a region of it) scaled to something like 50% 'snapped' to the opposite corner, also incorporating twitch chat and my webcam in there somewhere.
The only thing I really need help figuring out is how to take the raw stream output of OBS running on my laptop (without streaming out to the internets) and utilize it in my desktop's OBS (being the one that actually streams to my twitch). If I have to, I'll fool around with both OBS clients as the need arises. It'd just be nicer if I only needed to manage one OBS interface at a time.
"The Tournament"
Once I have my own place, I'll want to periodically host local tournaments and if possible, I'd like to stream them to a local monitor and possibly twitch, as well. This will be a 1v1 situation where players have their own computer and webcam set up to where they can trash talk each other but aren't able to see their opponent's screens. I plan for there to be a third computer where I will be running OBS that is able to stream a composite of both player's screens, their webcams, and possibly other overlay elements like twitch chat or "now playing" cards from music services.
Example output would be a screen with player 1's screen in the top left corner, player 2's screen in the bottom right corner, and in each of the open corners would be one of the players' webcams. Or in a game where the screen could be shared (for example, Spectator mode in League of Legends) the player's webcams could be fringe screen assets along with the aforementioned twitch chat and "now playing" card.
"The Multibox"
For the time being, I'd like to try streaming myself multi-boxing various games I like to play. I'd like to be able to have several different scenes set up in OBS. One for each of my computers' with my webcam composites somewhere on there, and also some more complex composites like "picture in picture" scenes and perhaps even a few potentially cinematic scene setups.
Example output would be Scene 3 in OBS, having my desktop's basic streaming setup scaled a little smaller, to something like 80% and 'snapped' to a corner. Then, I would overlay my laptop's monitor output (or perhaps a region of it) scaled to something like 50% 'snapped' to the opposite corner, also incorporating twitch chat and my webcam in there somewhere.
The only thing I really need help figuring out is how to take the raw stream output of OBS running on my laptop (without streaming out to the internets) and utilize it in my desktop's OBS (being the one that actually streams to my twitch). If I have to, I'll fool around with both OBS clients as the need arises. It'd just be nicer if I only needed to manage one OBS interface at a time.