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How to add discord overlay to obs
How to add discord overlay to obs









how to add discord overlay to obs

Text Channels have made it to the Overlay! Click the Overlay tab and enable in-game overlayĭ. The overlay is a pretty fancy and fun piece of tech, so there are some important points to go over.įirst steps first: Let's ensure the overlay enabled!ī. The window might be of a different size if you have a scale factor on one of your monitor that isn't 100%.Discordians! The in-game overlay is 100% waiting for you, and it's time to incorporate your voice & text chat into your game for maximum effort, focus, and no distractions from declaring your online gaming supremacy. I doubt that you will need to have a bigger window for the overlay anyway. So in order to avoid any confusion about if my program works or if the window is too small I forced the size of its window. So the window needs to be at least 769*433 and it takes into account the scale factor of each display. Does it have dimensions of at least 769*433 pixels ?.The way Discord detects if it will display its overlay on a window depends of 2 factors : The current RGB color of the background is 46, 49, 54. You'd have a disgusting green under the overlay that you couldn't make disappear. I get that it's not easy to chroma key that color but if there was a green background it would look awful as the Discord's overlay is partially transparent.

how to add discord overlay to obs

With this solution you only need to set it up once and that's it. It means that if you move to another room/server you need to recreate another link.

how to add discord overlay to obs

The link it generates works only for the specific room of the specific server you targeted. The people behind Streamkit clearly never really used it.

  • A DirectX 11 capable GPU to run the program.
  • Add a chroma key filter to the Discord Overlay source, set the HTML color to 2e3136, similarity to 1, smoothness to 1, opacity to 74, contrast to 0.39 and the rest of the values to default.
  • Within OBS add a capture window source and select Discord Overlay.
  • Also in Discord, user settings ► Overlay ► Check "enable overlay in game".
  • Within Discord go to user settings ► Game activity ► Add it ► Select "Discord Overlay".
  • A DirectX 11 window for Windows to host Discord's Overlay in order to capture and display it with OBS.īased on the idea of Discord Overlay Host I made an updated version as it wasn't updated in 5 years and accumulated a lot of issues.











    How to add discord overlay to obs