Question / Help Text Background Colour

[Matt Peddlesden]

Hi,

I'm trying to start getting moved over to OBS Studio as it really looks impressive now.

First hurdle - there doesn't seem to be a way of setting the opacity on a text source any more? In old OBS you can set the background colour and opacity of a text source. I've tried playing with filters and just can't see a way of making text sources anything but the transparency that they start out as.

The only other thing i've found so far that i'm waiting for is slideshows - but it looks like they're coming in 0.15 so that's cool.

Cheers - hopefully i'm just missing something and am being my usual blind self :)

Thanks for the assist
Matt
TrainSimLive / DownTheMineshaft

 

[m2020a1]

I am also having the same query.

Cheers

 

[Sapiens]

Right-click on the source > Filters > add a color correction filter and change the opacity there.

A slide show plugin will be coming in 0.15.0.

 

[Matt Peddlesden]

I've done as suggested - what it does is change the opacity of the text, but not of the background the text is on, so this doesn't help at all unfortunately. I.e. it defaults to 100, so the text can be seen. If I change it to 0, the text simply disappears, set to 50 and it's hovering over whatever is behind it.

What I want to be able to do is specify the colour of the background of the text and if this show up on top of anything that's behind it. I tend to have a busy background with the game UI and want to simply mask it out with the background colour being solid or else the text can't be read.

I also use the solid background as a colour blocking tool.

Thanks for your help.

Matt.

 

[santacrab]

Yeah, it would be really good to have a solid background for the text.
It seems that the old OBS version had a better and more intuitive text editor.

Another thing I can't really understand is why there is a tick to check for "read from file", while if you simply select the text from file works, without ticking the box.

 

[Tutejszy]

I solved it by using Browser source instead of text. Then put my text in some simple HTML file ("Local file" property). Then in the "Custom CSS" property put my background:
body { background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;}

The CSS above contains also text centering. I used font size of 60.0px to have short line of text across 1080 pixels screen