Question / Help Profiles are all the same??

[RocknRoller]

This is a weird thing I have noticed with multiple installations of OBS (desktop+laptop of mine).

If I save a setup, say "Bob's Setup" and quit OBS, later all of the Profiles will be setup as "Bob's Setup" if I click through them all. I don't get that. Isn't the point of having multiple profiles is to save the characteristics of each? How come they aren't unique?

I am concerned because I need multiple setups and it took forever to set up my main one. I don't want to have to keep switching settings+GFX everytime I choose to stream something...

Any ideas? I tried switching setups but they all come up the same.

 

[FerretBomb]

You create the profile first, THEN change the settings while it's selected. Any settings changes are saved to the currently active profile. I had the same impression of 'make changes, then create new profile to save them under' when I started using profiles too. I know, it's a little weird.

 

[RocknRoller]

Nope! Did not fix the problem when I saved it to that profile. Now I have to re-do my whole setup. Fack.

 

[dodgepong]

Profiles only save streaming settings. They do not save scene and source layouts.

 

[RocknRoller]

Could that be changed in the future? What if you want a cast with 4P and then a streaming profile with 1P or 2P?

Edit: The idea of having 10 - 20 scenes for multiple aspects of a show is concerning..

 

[dodgepong]

The OBS rewrite will have that ability. For now, if you want to save scene layouts, you can make copies of the scenes.xconfig file in %appdata%/OBS.