OBS's built-in overlay tools are too easy, so why not run a node.js app?
For best results, use with the CLR Browser Source plugin for OBS.
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Make sure you have node.js and Redis installed. Windows users will probably want to download it from MSOpenTech and follow these steps. Alternatively, just download the latest executable from https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads. You will have to start the service manually the first time, but it will start up on boot afterward.
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Clone the repo change directory to the repo's root.
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Run
npm install
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Mac/Linux, run
DEBUG=web-overlay bin/www
to start the project. In Powershell, set an environment variable with$env:DEBUG = "web-overlay"
before runningnode bin/www
.