Idea for Multiple Monitors in ARR

[Ragento]

I was thinking about how when you play with multiple Monitors how one Monitor has the game on it and the other one has your computers desktop. I was thinking they could have the second monitor having bags/inventory, chat windows, character screen, map screen, quest Journal, etc.

I made a shitty example from ARR screenshots in Microsoft Paint lol so dont be to harsh.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/41922687@N06/8413348773/

[Tipira]

i would totally use that if i would use a 2nd monitor :P

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

Maybe a user made UI add on can do this?

[Ragento]

Maybe a user made UI add on can do this?

Yeah sorry that was also part of my idea, i forgot about it some time during the Microsoft paint fiasco lol, thanks!

[Hulan]

Maybe a user made UI add on can do this?

Unfortunately, even with the extremely limited amount of information we have on the user Add-ons, I can diffinatively say this is a no. Add-ons will have to work within the window handle provided by directX or windows, which means that if the game cannot natively handle two monitors, add-ons wont be able to expand the resolution to the second monitor.

Now, if the game has the capacity to utilize non-standard resolutions, I could see someone writing an add-on for two monitors that works like this. That is assuming that they give camera control function access in the add-on API.

[Molly_Millions]

Unfortunately, even with the extremely limited amount of information we have on the user Add-ons, I can diffinatively say this is a no. Add-ons will have to work within the window handle provided by directX or windows, which means that if the game cannot natively handle two monitors, add-ons wont be able to expand the resolution to the second monitor.

Now, if the game has the capacity to utilize non-standard resolutions, I could see someone writing an add-on for two monitors that works like this. That is assuming that they give camera control function access in the add-on API.

use sli. problem solved.

[Wolfie]

use sli. problem solved.

It's really, really not that easy bro.

[Molly_Millions]

It's really, really not that easy bro.

not sure what you mean, I use sli with no issues spanning multiple monitors at all.

[Molly_Millions]

I'd rather just have the game span all my monitors allowing me to put the map away when I want to.

[Linkurrra]

I'd rather just have the game span all my monitors allowing me to put the map away when I want to.

I agree with this. However I'd like to have the map popup in it's own window so that it's placeable. Which I believe ARR will have. With the option of setting the option to full screen.

You can almost do exactly what the OP is suggesting. Except your map would be covering half of your POV. but with popup windows you could place them where you wanted Map on top, Character information on bottom. That way when you close them they will pop up in the last place you placed them.

The thing about windows like character screen though is their contents are laid out in a specific way. So allowing use to resize the window won't be much good because the contents would not resize or move well to accommodate the new window size.