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[Z-Gaming]

Hello everyone,

I would like to start streaming with the release of Bless and I have some questions:

What are some of the must have commands, and where can i find how to set them up?

How can i make boarders and logos for the channel? Which program do i use?

Where can i get audio for announcements (follows and such)?

If someone was to donate, will they be able to see the mail on my PayPal?

Thanks a lot

[Slottr]

To answer your borders question,

 

Photoshop or a photo editor & in OBS you can import the image, set it as a setting and then size your gameplay screen to fit inside of the border.

[Z-Gaming]

Just now, Slottr said:

To answer your borders question,

 

Photoshop or a photo editor & in OBS you can import the image, set it as a setting and then size your gameplay screen to fit inside of the border.

Can i somehow import a hand-drawn picture? Like take a HQ photo and somehow edit it in photoshop?

[Slottr]

4 minutes ago, Z-Gaming said:

Can i somehow import a hand-drawn picture? Like take a HQ photo and somehow edit it in photoshop?

Yeah, just take the photo and send it to your pc and throw it into OBS. If you want to edit it just open the photo of your drawn image in photoshop

 

Can also try scanning it if you have one

[LogicalDrm]

PayPal, if you use Donate button or whatever Twitch has default, it will only show info given. Usually your "name" and sum to be paid. Its not gift-payment where email would be required.

 

For other things, you should look at OBS scripts and addons. Or go to Streamlabs which uses OBS as base but has more refined AIO-style service (with premade animations for followers and donations etc.)

 

Your rig is capable for streaming, but hows your upload?

[Z-Gaming]

1 hour ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

PayPal, if you use Donate button or whatever Twitch has default, it will only show info given. Usually your "name" and sum to be paid. Its not gift-payment where email would be required.

 

For other things, you should look at OBS scripts and addons. Or go to Streamlabs which uses OBS as base but has more refined AIO-style service (with premade animations for followers and donations etc.)

 

Your rig is capable for streaming, but hows your upload?

120 down 6 up

 

[LogicalDrm]

4 minutes ago, Z-Gaming said:

120 down 6 up

Thats bit close. But should be enough for 720p30fps. Maybe 60fps. Twitch doesn't seem to have recommended upload speeds said anywhere, but they do have bitrates. Youtube has this equation "main+backup+20% headroom" for upload speed. For 6mbs that would mean up to 2700kbs bitrate. In Twitch recommendations that falls in 720p30 spec.

 

There are couple things to note. If you play online games, have VOIP etc., they all need some of that upload speed. For most of online games 1000kbs is enough to keep things smooth (based on own testing back in BF2 days, so it might have gone up since then). Another thing is Twitch itself. Because platform is so popular and keeping things running is expensive, only partners get scaling for their streams. In practice this means that your viewers must match their download speed to what you are uploading. To watch 3500kbs bitrate stream they would need 5mbs down speed at minimum. This shouldn't be deal breaker as you can get quite nice quality with 720p and 3500kbs. Most of viewers will be watching content and your style over quality and its better have smooth experience than choppy and pretty.

[Z-Gaming]

21 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Thats bit close. But should be enough for 720p30fps. Maybe 60fps. Twitch doesn't seem to have recommended upload speeds said anywhere, but they do have bitrates. Youtube has this equation "main+backup+20% headroom" for upload speed. For 6mbs that would mean up to 2700kbs bitrate. In Twitch recommendations that falls in 720p30 spec.

 

There are couple things to note. If you play online games, have VOIP etc., they all need some of that upload speed. For most of online games 1000kbs is enough to keep things smooth (based on own testing back in BF2 days, so it might have gone up since then). Another thing is Twitch itself. Because platform is so popular and keeping things running is expensive, only partners get scaling for their streams. In practice this means that your viewers must match their download speed to what you are uploading. To watch 3500kbs bitrate stream they would need 5mbs down speed at minimum. This shouldn't be deal breaker as you can get quite nice quality with 720p and 3500kbs. Most of viewers will be watching content and your style over quality and its better have smooth experience than choppy and pretty.

i mean, i will have my voice chats etc on my laptop from which i will be moderating the stream, so my main rig will be just to play the game, and distribute on twitch. I would hope 720p 60fps will be doable

 

[LogicalDrm]

9 minutes ago, Z-Gaming said:

i mean, i will have my voice chats etc on my laptop from which i will be moderating the stream, so my main rig will be just to play the game, and distribute on twitch. I would hope 720p 60fps will be doable

Every device connected to internet by same connection will count to how much that connection can upload. Try and see how stream looks. Choppy and buffering is definetly something you don't want to see.