Most people will want the background to be transparent so leave the color as black or #000000 to have a transparent background. These are BetterTTV Emotes and FrankerFaceZ Emotes.īackground Color – you are able to change the background color of the chat box. There are a number settings that you can tweek in this panel.īadges – decide what badges will show in the chat box.Įmotes – by default emotes will work with the chat box but you are given the option to have even more emotes be available to show in the chat box. We recommend sticking to these unless you are confident to style your own with CSS. There are a number of pre-made themes for that chat box which do look good. Here we are going to pre-configure what the chat box will look like in the stream. On the left hand sidebar under Widgets you will need to select Chat Box. Once you’ve successfully logged in you will be taken to your dashboard. If it is you’re first time you will have to grant it authorization to your channel but it’s super simple. You will need to connect with a streaming service – since we’re focusing on Twitch in this tutorial just log in through Twitch.

The first step is the same whether you’re using SLOBS or OBS.

We will look at implementing the chat for both Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS) and OBS Studio. During loading screens or pre-stream windows you will maintain some activity on screen so that people aren’t looking at a blank screen. Keeps the ‘quiet times’ on stream still doing something.Incentivises users to contribute to the chat.A primary factor to a stream’s success is user’s interaction with the stream.īy showing your chat on stream you will do a few things:

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