Liquid Fill
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Test Card Shader
Colour bars and alignment grids on a colour source, for building a scene without the cameras.
- By Andi v0.0.1 Free
- Windows macOS Linux
- OBS 28+
Turns a blank Colour Source into a labelled test card, so you can build and rehearse an overlay on a machine that does not have the real cameras plugged in yet.
Four Colour Sources, this filter on each, labelled CAMERA 1 to CAMERA 4, and your scene is laid out properly before the capture cards arrive.
Everything it does
Key features
- Four background styles: SMPTE-style colour bars, a grid with a centre crosshair, a flat colour, or your own image
- Label built from a word and a number, so CAMERA 1, SOURCE 2, FEED 3, NO SIGNAL, OFFLINE
- Ten preset words, plus a None option if you only want the number
- Text size, colour and an X and Y offset
- Label plate behind the text, with its own colour, padding and corner radius, so the label stays readable over the bars
- Frame border with its own colour and width
- Grid colour, spacing, line width and crosshair width
- Image backgrounds with Stretch, Fit and Fill mapping and six aspect presets
- Bars level slider, for when full-brightness bars are too much on a preview
Four backgrounds, one filter
Colour bars give you something that reads instantly as a missing feed. The grid is an alignment chart with a centre crosshair, so it is the one to use when you are lining up a crop or a transform. Solid is a flat colour for a holding card. Image points at your own PNG or JPG.
The grid is for lining things up
Set the spacing and you have a ruler across the frame. The centre crosshair marks the middle, so you can see straight away whether a source is actually centred or just close.
It pairs well with a frame border, which shows you exactly where the source bounds are once the transform is on it.
Why the label is a dropdown
OBS only hands shaders numbers, colours and toggles. It never hands them text, and a shader cannot read the source name either. So the label is built from a Word dropdown and a Number slider instead of a text box.
That covers CAMERA 1 to 4, INPUT 1 to 4, SOURCE, FEED, SIGNAL, TEST, NO SIGNAL and OFFLINE. Set it once per source and you are done.
obs-shaderfilter by Exeldro, installed. Apply to a Colour Source, or any other full-frame source
History
Patch notes
v0.0.1
- Four background styles: SMPTE-style colour bars, a grid and crosshair chart, a flat colour, or your own image with Stretch, Fit and Fill mapping
- Label built from a preset word and a number, with an optional plate behind it and an optional frame border
Ready to try it?
Drop it on a source as a shader filter and it runs there. Nothing to sign into, nothing to keep open alongside it. Questions, ideas or something not working? We are in the Discord.
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