Dark · red · modern. Built‑in multistreaming, creator tools, and a bleeding‑edge toolchain.
Note
Empire‑OBS is a personal, modernized fork of OBS Studio (GPL‑2.0).
It rebuilds the entire interface in a cinematic Netflix palette (#141414 / #E50914) — a top Command bar,
seamless Scenes · Sources · Audio · Controls cards, a right navigation rail, status badges over the preview,
a full Vertical 9:16 studio, multistreaming, live performance graphs, ready‑made scene templates and a
Smart Setup assistant — all on the latest upstream OBS, compiled on the newest Visual Studio 2026 toolchain.
- ✨ Features
- 🖼️ Screenshots
- 🖼️ Look & feel
- 🏗️ Architecture
- 🧱 Tech stack
- 📊 Progress
- 🗺️ Roadmap
- 🚀 Build from source
- 📦 Changelog
- 🔒 Security
- 🤝 Contributing
- 📄 License
| Feature | Description | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎬 | Cinematic UI rebuild | A full Empire layout — top Command bar, a bottom row of Scenes · Sources · Audio · Controls cards, and a right navigation rail — over the bold Empire Modern theme (default), with seamless card headers | ✅ |
| 🟥 | Preview badges | LIVE / REC · resolution · scene name drawn right over the program preview | ✅ |
| 📐 | Vertical 9:16 | A portrait canvas you can preview · compose (drag / scale / add sources) · record · stream — toggled in one click from the top bar | ✅ |
| 🎚️ | Empire Audio | Per‑source faders with live VU meters + a dB readout + mute | ✅ |
| 🎞️ | Scenes & Sources cards | One‑click scene switch (+ new / rename / duplicate / remove) and source visibility (+ add / properties / filters / remove) | ✅ |
| 🔀 | Transitions panel | Pick the active scene transition and its duration | ✅ |
| 📡 | Multistreaming | Stream to multiple RTMP destinations at once (Twitch + YouTube + Kick + …), sharing the main encoders — no extra GPU/CPU | ✅ |
| 📈 | Performance dock | Live graphs: CPU · FPS · render · dropped frames · bitrate, with a stream‑health banner | ✅ |
| 🧠 | Templates + Smart Setup | Ready‑made scene collections + a detected‑hardware summary in the auto‑config wizard | ✅ |
📡 Multistream highlight: one encode pass → many uploads. Manage up to 3 extra destinations from a dock with per‑target LIVE / failed status and a one‑click Start all streams button.
Command bar (with the one‑click 9:16 toggle) · status badges over the preview · seamless Scenes · Sources · Audio · Controls cards · the right navigation rail.
The cinematic Command bar — brand · 9:16 toggle · live CPU / FPS / resolution · Go Live — with the LIVE / OFFLINE badge drawn right over the preview.
📸 More shots — the Vertical 9:16 studio, live VU meters and the accent themes — live in the Wiki → Features.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ● EMPIRE‑OBS #141414 background · #E50914 red │
│ │
│ ▸ Scenes ▸ Sources ┌─ Empire Performance ───┐ │
│ ▸ Audio Mixer ▸ Transitions │ CPU ▁▂▅▇▅▃ 23 (max 78)│
│ │ FPS ▇▇▇▇▇▇ 60 │
│ ┌─ Empire Multistream ─────┐ │ RAM ▃▃▄▄▄▅ 812 MB │
│ │ ☑ YouTube ● LIVE │ └────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ ☑ Kick ● LIVE │ [ ⬤ Start all streams ] │
│ └──────────────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
flowchart TD
subgraph UI["🎨 frontend · Qt 6"]
THEME["Netflix theme<br/>(Yami_Empire.ovt)"]
DOCKS["Empire docks<br/>Command · Scenes · Sources · Audio<br/>Controls · Transitions · Nav · Vertical 9:16<br/>Performance · Multistream"]
BADGES["Preview badges<br/>(gs draw‑callback)"]
end
subgraph PLUGINS["🧩 plugins · 40 modules"]
OUT["obs-outputs · rtmp"]
ENC["x264 · NVENC · QSV"]
end
CORE["⚙️ libobs · engine<br/>scenes · A/V mix · render pipeline · module loader"]
GFX["🖥️ D3D11 / OpenGL"]
UI --> CORE
PLUGINS --> CORE
CORE --> GFX
classDef red fill:#E50914,stroke:#141414,color:#fff;
classDef dark fill:#141414,stroke:#E50914,color:#fff;
class CORE red;
class UI,PLUGINS,GFX dark;
Design rule: ~90% of Empire features live in the frontend and data layers (docks, theme, templates)
or as scripts — the core libobs engine stays untouched, so syncing with upstream OBS stays painless.
| Layer | Technology | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Base | OBS Studio | master (≥ 32.1.2) |
| Engine | C | C17 |
| UI | C++ · Qt 6 | C++17/20 · Qt 6.8 LTS |
| Browser source | CEF | 6533 (Chromium 127) |
| Build | CMake + Presets | 4.3.x · schema v8 |
| Compiler | MSVC (Visual Studio 2026) | v14.51 |
| Windows SDK | target | 10.0.26100 |
| Scripting | Lua · Python | bundled · 3.x |
| CI | GitHub Actions | — |
Of the 13 originally planned feature areas:
pie showData
title Feature areas (of 13 planned)
"✅ Done" : 5
"🟢 Planned (Tier B)" : 6
"🔴 Re-scoped (Tier C)" : 2
| Area | Progress |
|---|---|
| 🎨 Theme & UI | ██████████ 98% |
| 📡 Multistreaming | █████████░ 90% |
| 🛠️ Creator tools | ████████░░ 85% |
| 🧠 AI & automation | █░░░░░░░░░ 10% |
| 🔌 IoT & devices | ░░░░░░░░░░ 0% |
| 📚 Docs & CI | █████████░ 90% |
See ROADMAP.md for the full plan. Highlights:
- ✅ Shipped: cinematic UI rebuild · Vertical 9:16 studio · preview badges · right nav rail · multistream · scene templates
- 🟢 Next: AI background removal (ONNX plugin) · per‑destination multistream tuning · more accent themes
- 🟡 Later: IoT lights (Hue/Govee) · chat overlay · cloud recording · mobile companion
- 🔴 Re‑scoped: FSR/DLSS/VR (#4) and Plugin Framework 2.0 (#9) — see roadmap for the feasible kernels
Important
Requires Visual Studio 2026 Build Tools (workload Desktop development with C++ / MSVC) and CMake ≥ 4.3. Build outside OneDrive‑synced folders.
# 1. Clone with submodules
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Gh0s777tt/empire-OBS.git C:\dev\empire-OBS
cd C:\dev\empire-OBS
# 2. Configure (auto-downloads Qt6 + CEF + obs-deps, ~8 min)
cmake --preset empire-windows-x64
# 3. Build (SERIAL — do NOT use --parallel; it races the nested x86 virtualcam sub-build)
cmake --build --preset empire-windows-x64
# 4. Run (portable = isolated config)
.\build_x64\rundir\RelWithDebInfo\bin\64bit\obs64.exe --portable📖 Full build notes, gotchas and the VS‑2026 fixes are in the Wiki → Building.
All notable changes are tracked in CHANGELOG.md with numbered updates.
Latest: v0.7.1 — Cinematic Polish (Update #012).
The repository is public (GPL‑2.0) and hardened:
- 🛡️ Branch protection on
empire/main(no force‑push, no deletion, linear history) - 🤖 Dependabot vulnerability alerts + automated security fixes
- 🔁 Inherited upstream CI (Push / Scheduled) is fork‑guarded, so release tags stay green
- 🔑 Secret‑scanning push protection (where available on the plan)
Note
Windows may warn that the installer is "unrecognized", or Defender may flag it. Empire‑OBS binaries are
not yet code‑signed, so SmartScreen / Defender can throw a false positive on the unsigned .exe. It is
not malware — it's this open build. Choose More info → Run anyway, restore any quarantined files, or use the
portable ZIP. Code signing (the real fix) is wired into CI and waiting on a certificate — see Wiki → Signing.
Report vulnerabilities privately — see Wiki → Security.
This is a personal fork, but the workflow is PR‑based:
- Branch from
empire/main→feature/your-feature - Keep changes in the frontend / data / scripts layers where possible (sync‑friendly)
- Update README · CHANGELOG · ROADMAP as part of the change
- Open a Pull Request
Empire‑OBS is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 (or later) — see COPYING. It is a fork of OBS Studio © the OBS Project contributors.
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