Hello everyone,
I’m working on a space RTS on my spare time, and I wonder if it’s possible to have my game on dual monitor.
I’d like, for example, the players to be able to play on monitor 1, and to move the widgets (I already have movable window) on monitor 2. This second monitor must not show the game environnment, only widgets upon a 2D background.
Any idea if it’s possible and how to do this?
Thx.
Thank you, I’ll check that.
But I suppose this way I can’t drag a movable window from monitor1 to monitor2, correct?
Not a movable window. I think you would need to code it in c++ to be able to get 2 different windows to talk to each other.
OK Thank you very much, and for the links.
I’m not sure I understand it all but I’ll have to test as soon as possible.
As for draggable window, I already have my own 
And Thank you **MostHost LA **also.
You can always try multiplayer on same PC. One client can render all (ie. 3d and gui) second client is only Gul.
However if your game will be “real” multiplayer at some point, that hax with 2 clients is more complicated than it is worth. You need to develop 2 projects, or gui only will waste memory and resources if code is identical to “main” game.
For singleplayer games (with fake multi for gui etc), you can do multiple monitors, each unreal “game” should run on separate thread, so it should be even faster than single game.
It’s intended to be MMO at the end, hopefully… then… what do you think is the best method?
Thank you
For mmo You should not use any hax, you need proper handling of that stuff or you get in potential trouble later on. (and probably do it in C++, so it is more stable)
I also suggest you focus first on ground level stuff. Doing multiple monitors support is kind of mid to late development.
So first you should find what is needed to make mmo working, like some backend or maybe sdk for mmo.
This is same problem like with making cool and pretty levels before you made any gameplay and movement code (that is trap i fell into multiple times, because it is fun to do)
That time spent on making level is usually wasted because later on you have different speed of movement, height of jump maybe bigger packs of enemies etc.
And you spent weeks doing really nice looking map that does not work with gameplay.
Same with coding any gameplay systems before you have working backend (or at least idea how you do backend)
However if you dont have manpower or $$$ to make mmo yet, i should suggest making coop multiplayer with private servers up to whatever number unreal supports out of the box now.
I really would buy rpg game that have private servers, modding support. So i can invite my friends to paly with me.
Allright thank you both of you… I push this for later developpment then. I have so much to do before that.
Is it possible to save layouts where windows are on multiple screens?
