Stroke Glow Shadow 1.0.2

[FiniteSingularity]

Very nice plugin. I am still figuring it out. I did notice that when I installed it with the Windows Installer on Windows 11 Pro, it replaces the OBS Studio name with Stroke Glow Shadow when I hover over my Microphone on the taskbar. Here is screenshot of it. It is the only plugin that I have installed in OBS that has done this. I am using OBS 30.2.2. Is this intended behavior?

Thanks in advance. :)

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I'm glad you're enjoying the plugin.

Thank you for letting me know about this. What you're seeing is definitely not the intended behavior, and isn't something I've seen myself. The SGS plugin doesn't touch any audio input devices, so its very strange that it is showing up like that. I'll see if I can replicate it, and if so will try to figure out a fix.

 

[mredodos]

hi why when i activate shadow my cam change illumination?

 

[FiniteSingularity]

hi why when i activate shadow my cam change illumination?View attachment 107632
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Hi mredodos,

That was a bug in the rendering pipeline that I thought I had fixed. Can you get me a log file so that I can see what your setup is and try to figure out why it is happening on your OBS? To get me a log file, go Help --> Log Files --> Upload Current Log File, then either paste the link it gives you here, or DM it to me if you dont want it to be public. That will help me troubleshoot what might be happening.

 

[mredodos]

Hi mredodos,

That was a bug in the rendering pipeline that I thought I had fixed. Can you get me a log file so that I can see what your setup is and try to figure out why it is happening on your OBS? To get me a log file, go Help --> Log Files --> Upload Current Log File, then either paste the link it gives you here, or DM it to me if you dont want it to be public. That will help me troubleshoot what might be happening.

https://obsproject.com/logs/zqS5atzLBNFbZ6vX

 

[FiniteSingularity]

https://obsproject.com/logs/zqS5atzLBNFbZ6vX

Thank you for the log. I'm not seeing anything in particular in the logs that would cause this.

One question- I see you have a filter applied right before the stroke filter. What kind of filter is that (I'm trying to see if I can replicate your problem locally).

 

[TMBGeeks]

Did "auto padding" ever get implemented? I've spent all day trying to find a combination of filter order and/or scene nesting to allow a stroke and drop shadow while still being able to resize my camera via only the camera's borders (e.g. - excluding the stroke/shadow). Currently I have 200px buffer padding because I never know what effects I may add in the future and at least auto-padding would fit camera + effects exactly even if resizing camera-only bounds isn't possible.

Also, I'd like to second @mredodos issue, I get the same haze on the preview (only when the filter is set to visible) on a fresh install.

 

[TMBGeeks]

It seems like the solution was to have a group containing my camera (or whatever source you want to have a stroke/shadow) and a color source. The color source is hidden and has a size >= the canvas and is simply for padding. Then the effects filters are applied to the group. Some effects from other plugins such as Advanced Mask's rounded corners need to be applied directly to the camera though so it's still all very confusing as to why a stroke would apply to the visible portion (the most logical in my opinion) but rounded corners applies to the whole, including the hidden portions.

 

[FiniteSingularity]

Did "auto padding" ever get implemented? I've spent all day trying to find a combination of filter order and/or scene nesting to allow a stroke and drop shadow while still being able to resize my camera via only the camera's borders (e.g. - excluding the stroke/shadow). Currently I have 200px buffer padding because I never know what effects I may add in the future and at least auto-padding would fit camera + effects exactly even if resizing camera-only bounds isn't possible.

Also, I'd like to second @mredodos issue, I get the same haze on the preview (only when the filter is set to visible) on a fresh install.

I’m currently updating Composite Blur, but SGS is next up on my ToDo list, and I’ll be addressing both issues. So very soon!

 

[FiniteSingularity]

It seems like the solution was to have a group containing my camera (or whatever source you want to have a stroke/shadow) and a color source. The color source is hidden and has a size >= the canvas and is simply for padding. Then the effects filters are applied to the group. Some effects from other plugins such as Advanced Mask's rounded corners need to be applied directly to the camera though so it's still all very confusing as to why a stroke would apply to the visible portion (the most logical in my opinion) but rounded corners applies to the whole, including the hidden portions.

The reason for this- Advanced Masks applies to the entire source’s canvas, as with an alpha channel, there is no way to know if the transparent parts of the source are due to a rectangular cut (which would make sense for advanced masks), or if they are abstract (like a face cam chroma key). However we do know that the source’s canvas, as defined by OBS is rectangular, and so we can mask based on those dimensions.

SGS on the other hand uses an edge detection algorithm (computationally expensive) to put pixels on any alpha zero pixels that are within some distance of the transition to non-alpha-zero pixels.

Hopefully that clarifies things a bit. And feel free to ask more questions.