
How to improve your content using shader filters? Unless you (think) you know what you're doing, I would leave these settings as is, because there is a chance it will crash your OBS if used incorrectly. For the effect filter you also have to check the box that says 'Use Effect File (.effect)' For every shader or effect there are a separate set of variables you can enter. Finally you have to decide if you want to use a shader or an effect filter. The filter you then need to select is the User-defined shader. After this you can open or restart OBS and you can start using shader filters right away! To use a shader or effect, you right-click the source you want to put the filter on, and select filters. There are several OBS plugins for this, but the one that I found had the most different shaders and effects and also happens to have the most documentation is the plugin simply called obs-shaderfilter, which can be found here: Īfter downloading the zip file, you simply copy the obs-studio folder in the zip file over your OBS installation folder and it will automatically put all the files where they need to be. And the effect changes the behaviour and the orientation of the source, while the shader doesn't. So the shader only changes the way the source looks, while the effect doesn't. And a good example for an effect would be the shake effect, this will make the source shake in random directions. An example of a shader would be the rainbow filter, this will add a flowing rainbow effect on your source, making it change color over and over again. You use them in pretty similar ways, but shaders change the way your source looks while effect change the way your source behaves. You basically have two different sets of filters you could use on your sources, shader filters and effect filters.

The camera source is mostly used for this, so I'll mostly be using that as an example. Last time we talked about Nested Scenes and what they can do to improve your stream, but this time we'll talk about something that combines very well with those nested scenes: Shader Filters! Shader Filters are filter effects or shaders that you can put on any visual source, whether its a still image, your game footage or your camera source.


Did you know you could use shader filters to make your stream more interesting? My name is Aeridos, and I'm here to explain how to get them and how how you could use them.
