FUNKe
New Member
I have a few scenes. One for stream start, one for stream end, one for a "wait" screen, and one for the primary scenes (games/monitor/etc).
In my start/end sources, I use several text sources for the date, time, music name, etc. I've noticed I can't use the same name for multiple sources spanning across different scenes (example: a source named 'Time' in the Starting scene means I have to name the Ending scene source 'Time 2'.
This makes me wonder if there's a way to just use the same source for both, with individual placement on screen depending on the scene in use. I'm also curious as to whether it's a bad idea to have multiple sources using the same file, in fear that it might bog down my CPU usage in the background. I'm still getting familiar with the inner mechanisms of OBS so i'm still very in the dark about a lot of this.
Examples:
Stream Starting
Stream Ending
So my questions summarized are:
- Is there a way to have sources persist on specific scenes, but with individual placement on each?
- Is there any negative impact to having separate sources with the same function for different scenes?
In my start/end sources, I use several text sources for the date, time, music name, etc. I've noticed I can't use the same name for multiple sources spanning across different scenes (example: a source named 'Time' in the Starting scene means I have to name the Ending scene source 'Time 2'.
This makes me wonder if there's a way to just use the same source for both, with individual placement on screen depending on the scene in use. I'm also curious as to whether it's a bad idea to have multiple sources using the same file, in fear that it might bog down my CPU usage in the background. I'm still getting familiar with the inner mechanisms of OBS so i'm still very in the dark about a lot of this.
Examples:
Stream Starting
Stream Ending
So my questions summarized are:
- Is there a way to have sources persist on specific scenes, but with individual placement on each?
- Is there any negative impact to having separate sources with the same function for different scenes?
