Text Overlay plugin example?
- Thread starter hershey
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ThoNohT
Developer
How about the text source we already have: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins/text-freetype2
I'll have a look at this, but how would I go about making my own plugin that would display text with that?
ThoNohT
Developer
Follow the contributing guide: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/getting-started-with-obs-development.21326/
Just so you're aware, sources can have sub-sources. So you can create/render the text source from within your own source if you wish, it's perfectly legal. Just make sure to use obs_source_create_private (which may eventually get deprecated if I make everything technically "private")
01F0
New Member
I actually wondered the same thing about half a year ago, and got some mighty fine help from Jim. :)
Here's the code to that plugin. I'm not sure if I did everything 'by the book' though, and I didn't use the private thingy, I should implement that as well. But it works.
I created a pointer which I initialized with obs_source_create, pointing out the text source.. Then I used that pointer to modify the text value and to set width/height etc.
Here's the code to that plugin. I'm not sure if I did everything 'by the book' though, and I didn't use the private thingy, I should implement that as well. But it works.
I created a pointer which I initialized with obs_source_create, pointing out the text source.. Then I used that pointer to modify the text value and to set width/height etc.