First look at Picture in Picture/minimap

I bet this could easily be delegated to mod work

What if I told you... The minimap was the real world, and the large display was the picture-in-picture?

Horribly crowbarred-in references aside, it looks really useful. Hopefully I'll be able to try it out soon.

Double this. It's will be pretty useful to swap view this way!

In my first game with PiP I had my PiP looking at the solar system. An enemy took his commander in a lander to another planet. I saw it, quickly built several fighters, sent them to the same planet to intercept. Fighters travel faster between planets than landers, so they got their first and shot him down when he arrived.

Was an awesome use-case for PiP!

You can flip them already. Currently the keys are shift+v is swap the main cam with the PiP cam and alt+v is take what's in the main view and put it in the PiP.

That is amazing!
Now I can just connect my teleporters with a few clicks.

Oh yeah, baby! Will you support also this?

Someone has been watching too much Swordfish.

So...

gimme.

Yes. PA will offer multi monitor support.

Gonna make commentating and gameplay all the easier. Cannot wait.

How is the frame rate near 'end game' since you are pretty much rendering the game twice?

PA already supports multiple views

What is that? I want.

Wait, but Scathis that means PIP is OP! We must nerf it now, nerf it so hard that it will never threaten the finely tuned balance of PA for the hardcore elite 1 v 1 players ever again!

But... I just had a 1v1 against the AI.

And the AI took his commander in a lander to another planet.

So I saw it, moved my orbital fighters to intercept, and fighters travel faster on a planet than landers do between them, so they got their first, but the lander went somewhere else, and while I failed to shoot him down as he arrived, the same event was entirely possible without PiP

I wasn't being serious! It was a jibe at all the hysteria going on in the thread relating to the Uber Cannon upgrade...

Jibe. Jibe is OP. You never see it coming, and then BAM. Nerf it!


That hysteria is a subject for another thread, but I do think the upgrade was unneeded (except maybe the range buff)

(maybe that was the only buff. In which case, it deserves a nerf to damage because of increased range.

Edit: found data files, expected nerf applied, still too strong, hysteria mounting)

But can you swap them so that the thin in PIP goes to the main view while the main view simultaneously goes to PIP? Also I need a bigger monitor 1280 by 1024 isn0t going to cut it anymore (yes I'm still using my 1st monitor ever).

Wow dude. My first monitor was the 800 x 600 that my parents used as an office computer.

No idea what their first monitor was.

I really really hope we get a good API for the multi screen stuff. So we can do far far more than that with mods.
So i.e. a mod that automatially opens a little windows that shows the location of an alert at the given point in time.
Lots of fun stuff might be possible.

Popping open a window when you mouse over an alert is a very high priority, IMO. The chronocam in that window should be set two or three seconds before the event.