How to set up Twitch alerts for your GTA 6 stream

1.What you need

A Twitch account, a free alert service connected to it (StreamElements or Streamlabs), your streaming software (OBS Studio or Streamlabs Desktop) and your animations: WebM files with transparency and a short sound for each event.

• Follow
• Subscription and resub
• Gifted subs
• Bits (cheers)
• Raid

2.In OBS Studio with StreamElements

StreamElements hosts the alerts, OBS shows them through a browser source.

• Sign in to StreamElements with your Twitch account.
• In the overlay editor, create a 1920 x 1080 overlay and add the AlertBox widget.
• Set each event: animation, sound, text, duration. Save.
• Copy the overlay address (link button).
• In OBS, add a Browser source, paste the address, width 1920, height 1080, and put it at the top of your gameplay scene.

3.In Streamlabs Desktop

Sign in with Twitch, then add a source and pick Alert Box in the widgets: it is linked to your account straight away. The alert settings (animations, sounds, text) are in the Alert Box page of your Streamlabs dashboard.

You prefer OBS Studio but want Streamlabs alerts: copy the widget address from the Alert Box page and add it as a Browser source, like above. Never show this address on screen: it is tied to your account.

4.Import animated alerts

Use WebM files: they keep their transparency in OBS and in the browser. An MP4 shows a black box behind the animation, a GIF looks blurry and heavy. Set the duration of each alert to the length of its animation (often 5 to 8 seconds) so the text never cuts off early.

The alerts of our GTA 6 packs come as WebM with an install guide for StreamElements and Streamlabs.

5.Balance the sound against the game

GTA is loud: radio, sirens, engines. In the OBS browser source, tick Control audio via OBS so the alerts get their own fader in the mixer. Start with the alert volume around 30 to 40% in your alert service, then adjust in OBS: an alert should be clearly heard over the game, but stay under your voice.

6.Test, then fix the usual problems

StreamElements and Streamlabs both have a test button for each event. Fire them during a local recording and watch it back before the launch stream.

• The alert does not show: the browser source sits under the gameplay, or is hidden. Untick Shutdown source when not visible, then right click the source and Refresh.
• Black box behind the animation: the file is an MP4 without transparency. Use a WebM.
• You hear the alert but the stream does not (or the other way round): check the alert fader in the OBS mixer and the audio monitoring of the source.
• Every alert plays twice: two alert boxes are active (StreamElements and Streamlabs). Keep one.

7.Before the launch stream

Alerts are one piece of the show. Your capture, scenes and sound matter as much: the GTA 6 section gathers every guide, from console capture to the first stream checklist.