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
• Pango Text Attribute Markup
• Line spacing

Considering Features

• Custom text width
  • Vertical Text Align
  • Word wrapping

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.