PA-Tablet Commander to Second screen experiences

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by kalherine, December 15, 2013.

  1. kalherine

    kalherine Active Member

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    Some already must have experienced, I'm finding it in BF4 great experience with the ability to use my Tablet or Galaxy s4 as a second monitor.

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    Let me say that the experience of the game becomes much better and opens paths with more options in the field.

    Now I think in the near future this option for Planet Anhilation would be fantastic.

    See the entire map with Tablet, accessing mechanisms with more efficiency, and many other options, I think many are really advantageous and with this second monitor Tablet.

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    Use in Battlefield 4 in FL Studio and Ableton, and its really very useful.

    On PA could bring brings more easy options to the visualization of units in the field and quickly fluidity in shifting to other planets, and many other options could arise with this equipment.

    Not now of course, but think about it in the future would be the first RTS to use this technology.

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  2. ORFJackal

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    I really like that idea. The multi-touch ability of tablets might enable new ways of controlling your army. If nothing else, I think that it would work well as a mini map and for moving the camera.

    Since multi-screen support is under development, I hope they take into consideration future support for a "tablet screen."
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  3. drz1

    drz1 Post Master General

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    It could also be useful for people with no second monitor, but a compatible tablet. Nice idea :)
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    drz1 Post Master General

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    Although I guess it would be impossible to actually run the game on the tablet, so some sort of pared down representation?
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    Yes, the game would probably not run on tablets. Thus the game should provide an API which exposes the game state and controls, so that it would be possible for external programs to show that information and possibly also to control the units.
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    Basically its not play and use the Tablet / Android to play like the PC, but think in some functions that we could use on a Tablet to complete some lack of interface or any other usefull tool, where it would be easier and faster to use while we are playing in pc.

    I think there are numerous options that you/we can think of and include as Second screen on the Tablet.
    Planetary Anhilation its not all about play on one planet,there are so many other things that when they arrive,will be good have some other screen to use.

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