[REL] n Screens, or pushing PA pips to their limits and beyond

I want this badly. but I can't even handle the default PIP

@pinbender confirmed that hack holodecks are no longer necessary.

yeah I only believe it once I see it.
but YEY

Well they do seem to have to pips working at the same time with the hover pips for notifications.

hack holodecks are indeed not necessary anymore.
To make n Screens work again without UI you can just comment out the fix UI method body in global.js and make sure not to have any hack holodeck indexes set.

However the icons visibility is still not fixed. Gonna figure out tomorrow if I can make my pre gamma dualscreen setup that had a super size hack holodeck for tiny icons work again.

EDIT:
Playing around a bit. Won't fix this fully today though.


no hack holodecks = more holodecks

Finally some use for multiple screens when gaming

but whenever I use this mod, I can't create nor join any games, I just can't click the buttons, but I can use the back arrow, all other buttons work.

using:
Planetary Annihilation Mod Manager
Version 4.0.3 (2014/03/16)
Current PA Build: 62857

In game:
GAMMA v.63180

The mod is pretty outdated, had no time to fix it properly. And as long as PA has this horrible icon issue I probably won't spend more time on it.

That's too bad I was finally happy that I could use my other screen while gaming

yeah once they fix that icon issue I am gonna fix this mod

Questions:

Does this still work does anybody know?

Is this needed for simple dualscreen, or do I only need do a few steps and not need the actual mod in order to get just 2 monitor sized screens up?

If I just wanted to resize the PIP screen to the size of my other monitor, where in the normal game files or settings would I find that number in order to edit and is there anything I need to know about editing it?

This does not work out of the box and even if you make it work you will get the icon issue that breaks any dualscreen fun. I dont think anybody is currently actually playing dualscreen.

oh, and this is any form of resizing the pip? Because I would settle for a simple resize of the one PIP ingame that already works. Where do I go to find the PIP size in the game files, and is it just "screen position" so I just move the numbers? And does even doing a resize cause icons to break or would that work?

The one pip does not work and if you resize it you get the full glory of the shine through icons.

still works but UBER bar at bottom fucks it up.

it could be patched up though, right?

It was not even supposed to work in the last version. It's somewhere on my list of things to do, now that the icon bugs are supposed to be fixed.

great! I'd love to see this again this is definitely one of my favorite mods.

Try the hide uber bar mod, if that's not broken.

that just hides it. to be more specific, the code of uber bar fucks it up.

So answer me this

With all of the demand for multi-monitor support, and the fact that all of the problems that prevented this from being successful in its time have been fixed

Why hasn't this mod been updated yet?

Because I do not own a time machine and nobody else has stepped in. The mod mostly works btw. It's only the UI that needs a rework.