Challenges Overlay

What this page is

Challenges Overlay is the list of challenges as the viewers see it — "The list of challenges for OBS: counters and live countdowns". It lives at Carousel → Challenge list overlay. What is on the list is decided on the Challenges page; this page decides how it looks, how long names behave and what is heard when a countdown reaches zero.

How to set it up

The page opens on the list of widgets, not on the settings. Create widget sits above it; the first widget is called Main and a new one arrives as New widget. Each row carries the widget's name, a one-line summary of its settings and the buttons Copy link, Duplicate, Delete and Configure — Delete appears only once there are two, because the last widget cannot be removed. Configure opens the settings described below and takes you back to the list. Every widget keeps its own link and its own look, so two of them can stand in different scenes at the same time.

1. Open Carousel → Challenge list overlay. Copy in the header copies the address, and the message confirms it: "The link is copied — paste it into a Browser Source in OBS". A size of 420 x 600 suits it.
2. The preview sits in the middle. Show my list swaps the sample for what you actually have on the Challenges page — the button then reads Show a sample — and Time is up makes the last row finish, so you can see and hear that moment without waiting for it.
3. The sections are listed down the left: Backdrop, Row, Challenge name, Number, Time is up, Sound and Long names.
4. Backdrop is the list as a whole — Background, Corner radius, Padding, Gap between rows. Row is one line of it — Background, Border, Corner radius, Padding, Shadow.
5. Challenge name holds Font, Size, Weight, Color, Letter case and Shadow. Number holds Font, Size, Color and Shadow for the count or the countdown on the right of the row.
6. Time is up is how a finished row is marked: Color and Glow. It applies to the row's border and to its number, so the row stands out without changing shape.
7. Sound picks the file played when a countdown reaches zero, with Play to try it and Volume to set how loud. Files come from the sounds folder of the app, on Settings → Sound.
8. Long names decides what a name that does not fit does. Scroll the name — "A name that does not fit stands still, then slides across and comes back. The number stays where it is." Pause before it moves is 0 to 10 seconds and Speed is 10 to 200 pixels a second, each with its number shown beside the slider.
9. Ready-made looks and your own saved templates sit in the Styling card above the section list. Open "-- Choose a template --", take one from Built-in, Mine — this overlay or Mine — from other overlays, and press Apply. Template name with Save keeps the current look, Delete removes one of yours.
10. Press Save in the page header.

What it cannot do

• The overlay shows what the Challenges page holds. An empty list in OBS means the list itself is empty, not that the link is wrong.
• Whether a finished challenge stays on screen is not decided here. That is Keep finished challenges on screen, on the Challenges page.
• Nothing on the overlay can be pressed. It shows; starting, pausing, editing and marking done happen on the Challenges page or on the Carousel: Challenges tile on the Control Panel.
• There is one sound, and it plays only when a countdown reaches zero. A counter of times or percent never rings, and a sound cannot be set per challenge.
• The Done history is not shown. Only the current list goes to the stream.
• Rows cannot be filtered, sorted, limited to the first few or hidden one by one — the whole list goes out as it stands.
• Scrolling applies to the name only. A number that will not fit is not scrolled, and the row does not grow to a second line.
• Where the list sits and how wide it is come from the Browser Source in OBS; this page has no position or width fields.
• One list, one link, and it is a separate Browser Source from the carousel ribbon and from the pool bar — adding one does not add the others.