teaching-journal

How To Show Chat Messages On Stream (“Featured Chat”)

by Gaming Careers

• Initial Setup
  1. Go to featured.chat;
  2. Login with Twitch account and authorize the app;
  3. Click Enable Featured Chat;
  4. Add browser source into OBS (or whatever streaming software):
     1. Copy the “Main” URL;
     2. In OBS add “Browser Source” to a Scene of your choice and paste the URL;
     3. Set the dimensions to match your Canvas Resolution;
     4. Check “Control audio via OBS”.
• Test Twitch chat message:
  1. Open Twitch chat;
  2. Type test message of more than one word;
  3. Go back to the featured.chat website -> My Dashboard;
  4. Find test message and click + to add it to the queue;
  5. Click Twitch logo next to message to show on stream.
• Customize Styles:
  1. Go back to the featured.chat website -> My Settings;
  2. Blah, blah, bah
• Highlighting Messages: Auto-adds messages to the queue if a viewer redeems a “Highlight My Message Channel Points” reward.
  1. Enable “Automatically put highlighted messages into the On Deck queue”;
  2. Enable and customize the cost of the Highlight My Message reward in the Twitch Channel Point Dashboard.
• Q & A Chat: Allow viewers to prepend a message with custom characters to auto-add questions.
  1. Instruct viewers to ask a question by starting the message with q: (or whatever);
  2. In featured.chat:
     1. Go to AMA/Q&A tab in the Dashboard;
     2. Click settings cog and enter your prefix;
     3. Start filtering by clicking the Play icon.
• Chat Dock: Access chat directly in OBS
  1. Go to featured.chat > My Settings -> Other;
  2. Enable “Broadcaster - Skip Queue”;
  3. Copy the “OBS Dock URL”;
  4. In OBS go to View > Docks > Custom Browser Docks;
  5. Add new Browser Dock and paste URL;
  6. Arrange the new Dock as desired. You can now feature a message directly from OBS.
• Moderator Permissions
  1. Click “Add Moderators” to add your Twitch mods with one click;
  2. Have mods log into featured.chat using their Twitch account;