Alerts

Alerts play on stream when someone follows, subscribes, cheers, raids or tips. They live in an Alert Box rift, and you design them in the Alert Studio.

#The Alert Box

Add an Alert Box from Add rift. A new one comes with eight ready-made alerts:

Press Open Alert Studio to change them or add more.

#Use one Alert Box on several overlays

Every Alert Box is saved under My Alertboxes in the rift picker. Add it to another overlay from there. Changes to the alerts show on every overlay; position and size stay per overlay.

#The Alert Studio

The Studio shows a live preview of your Alert Box at its real spot on screen, your list of alerts and the settings of the selected alert.

• + Alert adds an alert, + Group adds a group to keep things tidy.
• Each alert can be switched on or off, duplicated, moved to a group or deleted.
• Press Save when you are done. An UNSAVED badge shows when you have changes.

At the top of each alert:

#Triggers

An alert plays when one of its triggers matches. Press + trigger to add more than one. You only see the platforms you connected.

#Conditions

Triggers with an amount have a condition: Any, At least, Exact or Between. Resubs compare months; bits, gift subs, raids and tips compare the amount. Sub triggers can be limited to Tier 1, 2 or 3.

#Which alert plays

When several alerts match, the most specific one wins:

1. An Exact match beats an At least match.
2. A higher At least beats a lower one.
3. Both beat an alert for Any amount.
4. A tier filter breaks a tie.

So a "resub 12 months" alert beats your general resub alert when someone resubs for 12 months.

With several equally specific alerts, each rolls its Chance and one of the winners plays. When none pass, Fishrift tries the next less specific alerts. If nothing plays, the event still shows in your activity feed.

Gift bombs play the gifter's Gift Sub alert once, not one alert per gifted viewer.

#Alert text variables

Use these in the alert text and in text to speech:

{amount} already includes the unit. Write {user} cheered {amount}!, not {amount} bits.

#Visuals

Layout: use a preset (text only, media with text above or below, media only, media left, media right, text over media) or Free to place the media, name and message yourself.

Media: an image, GIF or video from your Media Library, with volume, fit and size.

Sound: add one or more sounds. Each has its own volume and chance weight, so you can play a random sound per alert.

Text: font, size, weight, separate styles for the name and message, and an animation (typewriter, fade in or slide up).

Style: outline, shadow, solid or gradient text, a highlight colour for the name and amount, and a background.

Animation: entrance and exit (fade, slide, scale or bounce), their speed, and how long the alert stays (1 to 20 seconds).

Text to speech: pick a voice (Brian, Amy, Emma, Joanna, Matthew, Ivy, Lotte or Ruben), speed, delay and volume, and what it reads. The default is {user} says: {message}.

Advanced: limit long usernames and add your own CSS.

#Your public Alerts page

On the Profile tab of an alert, choose if it shows on your public Alerts page, with a display name, rarity (Common to Mythic), category, description and a preview.

#Alert queues

Alerts wait in three queues: Q1, Q2 and Q3. Each queue plays one alert at a time, and the three queues play side by side. An alert uses its own queue setting, or the Alert Box's Queue priority (Q1 by default).

Each queue has a state:

Change the states with the Q1, Q2 and Q3 buttons in the chat dock (green, amber, red) or with your Stream Deck.

#Pause, mute and skip

Pause, mute and queue states stay the same when OBS reloads. An alert never plays twice when a platform sends the same event again.

#Testing alerts

EMULATE in the editor: pick an Alert Box, pick an alert, fill in test data (name, tier, months, gift count, bits, amount, raid viewers) and press Fire Test Alert. Turn on Send to OBS too to see it in OBS as well.

Emulate in the Alert Studio plays the selected alert in the preview. Use Custom values to test a specific amount and see which alert would win.

Test alerts don't extend your subathon, move goals or fire integrations.

#Replay

Events in your activity feed that played an alert get a Replay button. It plays that alert again on the same Alert Box.