text box properties and formatting

Mike666

New Member
Hi all; I'm hoping I've just missed something simple here. Using 27.0.1 on Mint 20.

I create a source of type 'Text (FreeType 2)', and open its properties window. I see options for two colours that seem to provide a vertical gradient effect, plus outline, drop shadow and word wrap tick boxes (plus some other non-formatting related stuff).

If I look at OBS videos on youtube, I find mention of other useful options, such as opacities, gradient direction and even a tick box to enable the gradient. (eg https://youtu.be/Dw27xJjTYQs)

I can't find any way to access these. Is this just a linux/windows/mac difference, is there an extra plugin needed, or have I missed something obvious?

Thanks.
 

Mike666

New Member
I'll answer my own question. Grubbing around the source tree, I see there's a second plugin, obs-text, that is indeed windows-specific. Shame, the extra knobs and twiddlies would make it much more usable :-{
 
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