Viewer Buddies
Everyone who chats walks along the bottom of your stream as a little character
Viewer Buddies turns your chat into a crowd. Everyone who chats appears as a little character with their profile picture for a head, walking and hopping along the bottom of your stream.
Add buddies to your stream
Switch the widget on
On the Overlay tab, find Viewer Buddies under Interaction and turn on its switch.
Add it to OBS
Click Copy URL and paste the address into a Browser Source in OBS. It ends in
#overlay-buddies, and the widget starts along the bottom of the canvas, full
width.
Send a test buddy
Click Configure, then Test: spawn a buddy. A sample buddy walks on in the preview and in your OBS source.
The settings show a live preview with sample chatters, so you can see each change before your viewers do.
Choose who shows up
Everyone who chats gets a buddy. Under Who shows up, you can also bring one on for other moments:
| Setting | To start |
|---|---|
| Also when a viewer joins | Off |
| Also on a follow or subscription | On |
| Also on a gift | On |
| Most buddies at once | 20 |
| Leave after being quiet for | 5 min |
When the stage is full, the buddy who has been quiet longest waves goodbye to make room. Viewers you have blocked never appear.
See how buddies react
Each buddy reacts to what its viewer does:
- Chat pops up in a speech bubble over their head.
- A gift makes them jump, with the gift and its count over their head.
- A follow or a share makes them sparkle.
- Likes send hearts floating up.
Under Reactions, Speech bubbles for chat turns bubbles on or off. Longest bubble (characters) and Bubble stays for set how much of a message shows and for how long, and you can pick the Bubble color and Bubble text color. Hearts float up on likes switches the hearts.
Change the look
Under Look, Buddy size runs from 24 to 160 px. A buddy without a profile picture gets a colored initial. A different color for each viewer gives every buddy its own body color; switch it off to pick one Body and sparkle color for all of them.
Name tags show each viewer's name with their buddy, in the text color, background and opacity you choose. Name tag style is a Pill or Plain text, and Name tag color uses the Colors below or, with Per buddy, each buddy's own body color. The font and Name and bubble text size apply to name tags and speech bubbles alike.
In Shadow & depth, the shadow falls from each buddy, while Tilt and Scale turn and size the whole walking band.
Change how they move
Under Movement:
- Walking speed runs from Still to fast.
- Walking band depth spreads buddies out front to back, so they overlap less.
- Distance from the bottom lifts the ground they walk on.
With reduced motion on, buddies stand side by side instead of walking. Bubbles and gifts still show.
Pause, Panic and clearing the stage
While Vfinity is paused, new buddies wait and arrive when you resume. Panic
clears every buddy, and so does Clear viewer buddies (buddies.clear) from a
hotkey, an action step or the widget's right-click menu.