Text Source using Pango for OBS Studio

This plugin provides a text source for OBS Studio. The text is layed out and rendered using Pango.

Current Features

• Text alignment
• Text color
  • Colors for top and bottom of the text to create gradients
• Outline
  • Configurable width of the outline
  • Configurable color of the outline
• Drop Shadow
  • Configurable offset of the drop shadow from the text
  • Configurable color for the drop shadow
• Vertical Text
• Per Line gradients
• Read from file
  • Chat log mode (Last X lines from file)
  • Reload on changes
• Opacity

Considering Features

• Custom text width
  • Vertical Text Align
  • Word wrapping

Install

Linux

Extract the tar from the latest release into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/

You may need to install the dependencies from the Build section.

MacOS

Download the pkg from the latest release, right click on it and select Open.

You may need to install the dependencies from the Build section.

Windows

Download the zip from latest release and extract into C:\Program Files\OBS-Studio or wherever you have installed obs.

Build

You can either build the plugin as a standalone project or integrate it into the build of OBS Studio (untested).

Building it as a standalone project follows the standard cmake approach. Create a new directory and run

cmake ... <path_to_source>
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path_to_deps_dir>
    -DOBS_DIR=<path_to_obs>

for whichever build system you use (only ninja tested). You may also set the OBS_DIR environment variable to the location of the OBS source tree. Depending on the name of your obs build dir adjust PATH_SUFFIXES appropriately.

If the include cmake find modules fail to find packages on your system please submit a PR with appropriate NAMES to find them on your platform.

To integrate the plugin into the OBS Studio build put the source into the plugins/obs-text-pango folder of OBS Studio source and add it to the plugins/CMakeLists.txt.

Linux

On Debian and its derivitaves you can install libpango1.0-dev for all the build time dependencies. Everywhere else its typically just pango.

For precompiled binaries extract to ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and ensure dependencies are installed.

Windows

You will have to build the toolchain yourself, but it should be simplified if you have a posix shell environment such as cygwin and the visual studio build tools via https://github.com/kkartaltepe/pango-win32-build

Install by extracting into your obs studio folder' obs-plugins

Mac

Install pango via brew install pango and you should be set.