DualScreen Mod

[CodingSquirrel]

NOTICE: You must use version 3 or above with patch 3641. Previous versions of DualScreen do not work with 3641.

Inspired by partytime's mod Party UI, I decided to try my hand at optimising the game's UI for using splitscreen. The Party UI mod does a good job of this, but I wasn't looking for the other features that went along with it and the layout changes felt too incomplete for me (sorry partytime). I wanted the same experience in split screen that I would get if I used the native dual screen functionality (that just so happens to cause tons of crashes).

This mod will cause the game to automatically switch to split screen mode when you start a game, and that's about it. It manages the UI so any time you enable or disable the split screen mode it will automatically adjust the UI to match (including hotbuild). You can choose which monitor your UI appears on by typing /leftMonitor or /rightmonitor into chat. You can toggle whether the game will automatically switch to split screen mode by typing /enableAutoSplit or /disableAutoSplit into chat.

The latest version is DualScreen V4 DualScreen V5 in the mod vault. You can also find the source on github here https://github.com/CodingSquirrel/DualScreen

To get a true dual screen experience combine this with tatsu's script here. In particular look at the script I posted, which due to the WinRestore call will make it windowed borderless across both screens.


Limitations: I don't know how to fix an issue where if you have the right monitor selected, then it will zoom in on the left until the UI comes up, where it will just swap the two cameras. Also, I wasn't able to fix the non in-game interfaces, such as options and main menus. I may revisit this later if I find a good way to do it.

[nine2]

You are welcome to actually make this part of Party UI. It's on github. But a standalone mod is cool as well ... im glad your doing this. Good job

[CodingSquirrel]

Thanks. The mod was originally more for myself than anything, and so I'm a bit too lazy to merge the code. I may do it if I ever decide to pick it up again for fixing the main menus. You're certainly welcome to put my code into yours if you'd like.

[CodingSquirrel]

Updated to version 3 to fix incompatibility caused by 3641.

[CodingSquirrel]

Updated to V4. The mod now moves all in-game menus to the correct side of the screen (that I could find and test), instead of placing them down the middle. This includes the options, save, load menus, etc.

The lobby and main menu stuff is unchanged however. I'd have to figure out how to get the mod to initialize before getting into a game to get that to work as well.

[nine2]

quite sure you can't affect lobby and main - you would need to integrate your mod into FAF itself for that.

and i hope you do

[Androish]

Bug report regarding the latest version(the one that fixes ingame menus). It makes the lost connection screen not appear.

I reverted back to the older version it still works

[CodingSquirrel]

Bug report regarding the latest version(the one that fixes ingame menus). It makes the lost connection screen not appear.

I reverted back to the older version it still works

Thanks, I'll take a look and see what happened.

[CodingSquirrel]

I've uploaded version 5 to the mod vault with a fix to the disconnect dialog.

I've also put my code up on github. You can find it here https://github.com/CodingSquirrel/DualScreen

[Frozen_byte]

Now you just need to make the Lobby worth to have a DualScreen ;)