One of the best ways to reward loyal members of your streaming community is by setting up unique sound effects they can play on stream by redeeming StreamElements Loyalty points.
Since it's so much fun to create countless sound commands for your viewers to play during streams, this is one of the most commonly used forms of chat engagement with the streamer and their viewers.
Here's How to Set These Sound Commands Up:
Step 1: Navigate to your Loyalty Stream Store page here.
Or select 'Loyalty' --> 'Stream store' on your Creator Dashboard
Step 2: Select Item Type, 'Sound effects'
Step 3: Set the item name, description and cooldown settings as you wish.
Choose the amount of Loyalty points the item will cost, then press 'Next'.
Step 4: Upload your sound file (preferably MP3) and choose your desired volume
Step 5: Enable the forms of redemptions you want viewers to be able to redeem through, and whether or not the item is available to be redeemed by subscribers only.
Step 6: Choose a name for the command
Now, the item is created. Let us set up the command to redeem it!
How to Add Sound Command to Your Stream:
Step 1: Navigate to your custom commands page here.
Step 2: Create a command with a name of your choosing and set the response to be
${redeem item_name_here}
The item name and item command from the item's first and second settings pages don't have to be identical, but you can use the same exact word just to make sure you remember it.
We would also recommend to set the command up with the same name.
For example, as seen in the screenshots above - the item name from the Item information page is ez4ence, and so is the item command from the Item content page ("first and second settings pages").
The custom command's name I have set up for this is !ez4ence, and its response is set to be ${redeem ez4ence}. That way, when a subscriber types !ez4ence in chat, the mp3 file will play.
However, the two steps we've gone through above are not enough. We have the item and the command itself, but we need to create an overlay that contains the Store Redemption widget. This widget would be what actually plays the sound file.
Step 3: Navigate to My Overlays.
Step 4: Create a new overlay (or edit an existing one that you use and want the widget added to).
Step 5: Within the desired overlay (in the Editor), add the Store Redemption widget -
Step 6: Since all we're interested here is sound commands, we can get rid of the default video, sound, and text of the alert (remember, we do not play alerts for redemptions, we just want the item sound to be played upon redemption. That's why the 'Alert duration' is of no importance to us when setting up sound commands).
Example of how to remove defaults:
Important Final Step: Make sure to save the overlay!
Now you can go ahead and test your newly created sound command in chat. Have OBS or the Overlay Editor open to hear the sound playing upon redemption. If you've created a new overlay, make sure to add it as a browser source in your OBS. If you've added the widget to an existing overlay, you don't need to do that, just make sure you save the overlay.
NOTE: While testing, you can set the command to be enabled while the stream is both online and offline. But for your own sake, once everything is set, make the command work only online (while you're live):
You can also choose to hide the command from your public Stream Store.