How do I put the wheel in OBS?
Add the wheel’s link as a browser source with ?embed=1 on the end — that strips the page down to the machine and the result — and &bg=transparent so the scene shows through behind it. Interact with it like any browser source: click to spin from the source’s interact window, or keep it on a second monitor and spin there.
Size it like an overlay, not a page: the wheel scales to its box, the labels rotate along the radius, and six to eight entries stay readable at overlay size where twenty would not. Sound is on a switch in the wheel’s corner — the tick through your mic is atmosphere, the tick through your desktop audio twice is an echo.
What do streamers actually put on a wheel?
Consequences and choices, mostly. Challenge wheels — the one this page opens with — where the mild outcomes are wide and the terrible one is a sliver chat prays for; game pickers for variety nights; redemption wheels where a channel-point reward buys a spin; giveaway draws at sub milestones. The pattern is always the same: the wheel decides so the streamer does not have to.
Weights are the craft. “Invert the controls” at a weight of one next to “Hydrate” at four keeps the run playable while keeping the threat alive, and the segment widths say so on screen — when chat asks how rigged it is, the rim is the answer. Elimination mode turns a prize list into a no-repeats giveaway; normal mode keeps a challenge wheel dangerous all night.
How does chat trust the wheel?
Because everything about it is visible. The odds are the geometry — a segment’s width is its exact probability, drawn from the same numbers the draw uses — the result comes from the browser’s cryptographic random source before the animation starts, and every spin lands in a log with an id short enough to read out on stream. The clip and the log agree, which is what settles the argument the clip started.
For draws where the stakes are real — a giveaway rather than a forfeit — run a live session and drop the link in chat. Everyone who opens it watches the same wheel land at the same moment, drawn on the server rather than in your OBS, and the results board is there for anyone who joins late. Hosting needs a free account; chat just needs the link.
What else is this wheel good for?
It is the plain picker wheel in an embed view built for browser sources. Double or nothing on the forfeit that just landed is one spin of the yes/no wheel, and chat gets to watch that too.
A giveaway for the channel rather than the stream is the YouTube draw. The penalties themselves — mild ones wide, the terrible one rare — are the forfeit wheel, which is this machine’s other job.