OBS fails to start after text resize

[laughinwhale]

Hello all, I was prepping for my stream and 5 minutes before it started I tried to resize some text to a font size over the limit shown in the dropdown for the source. Unfortunatly this locked the application up, and now it fails to start, after reboot as well. Standard OBS works fine, this happened on Multiplatform. Here is the dump, I wasn't able to find anything through google:

http://pastebin.com/8SShRCj4

 

[Gol D. Ace]

Freetype2 likes to crash / lock up when you do too big text sizes.
It will be replaced in the future (from what I heard).

To get OBS working again you can do this.

Go to %appdata%\obs-studio\basic\scenes (put the path into the search field in the start menu and hit enter).

Now look for the right scene file. It will be named after the name of the scene collection. (make sure you open the file with the .json extension not the .bak one)

Open it and search for "size":

You should find the entry with the too high text size here.
Set the number lower (for example 20) and save the file.

You should now be able to open OBS again.

 

[laughinwhale]

Oh my goodness thank you so much! I was scouring those files and I tried to scrub everything from that scene to no avail. Looks like I just had to resize the text. Thank you notepad++ for your beautiful json formatting.