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Hello everybody,

I actually don't know wether this Idea was alredy posted or not but I didn't find anything about it. So I'll just write it for now and you can link me to the topic if it exists...

My Question/Idea is, wether it is possible to implement a feature for splitscreen when using multiple screens, to display one player on each screen, or 2 player per screen for 4 playes.
I think, this shouldn't be too difficult.

What do you think about it? Is it possible/ useful? I would really like this feature...

Greetz Splamy

Splamy {l Wrote}:My Question/Idea is, wether it is possible to implement a feature for splitscreen when using multiple screens, to display one player on each screen, or 2 player per screen for 4 playes.
I think, this shouldn't be too difficult.

it would probably be possible, but if one of the players on the same screen gets way in front of the other then...... ummmmm.......... that wouldn't quite work

ctdabomb, you got the wrong idea, he suggests if people have 2 screens the players could each have its own viewport on a separate screen.

Whether this is possible I have no idea of. Probably depends on how Irrlicht handles the window size and such. We'll probably have to wait for one of the programmers to pitch in (our two main programmers and project leaders are currently not much present, but they should be back in some days).

SuperTuxKart 0.6.2 had a 1-4 player option, each having their own screen. Don't know why this was discontinued, possibly because it wasn't used much?

I'm not an stk developer but as for me this feature won't be implemented soon. You need to make it work under different operating systems and I'm not sure Irrlicht supports something like this.

Hi,

main problem is how the different monitors are handled. For example, on my linux system with two screens I get one screen stretched across both monitors - so that would actually be easy to implement (just use 1x2 instead of 2x1 split screen). But it's different depending on how your system is set up (and what OS you are using etc). We could add some heuristic in case that a screen resolution is detected that indicates dual monitor usage - feel free to open a ticket (though admittedly that won't be exactly highest priority),

Generally (afaik) irrlicht does not really support multiple monitors, so we don't even have a portable way of addressing more than one monitor.

Cheers,
Joerg

RaceAce {l Wrote}:SuperTuxKart 0.6.2 had a 1-4 player option, each having their own screen. Don't know why this was discontinued, possibly because it wasn't used much?

STK never had support for multiple monitors. I assume you just had a setup where the monitors were mapped to a single virtual screen, and the normal splitscreen just mapped it correctly.

Cheers,
Joerg

STK never had support for multiple monitors. I assume you just had a setup where the monitors were mapped to a single virtual screen, and the normal splitscreen just mapped it correctly.

Cheers,
Joerg

Ah, I didn't make myself clear. STK 0.6.2 had 1-4 players and the screen was divided into 1-4 parts. Now STK only has a 1-2 player options.

RaceAce {l Wrote}:Ah, I didn't make myself clear. STK 0.6.2 had 1-4 players and the screen was divided into 1-4 parts. Now STK only has a 1-2 player options.

really? I am pretty sure that you can go up to at least 4

You can play with up to 4 players. People just needs to press their fire key to join while in the kart selection screen of Multiplayer.