What is it good for?
This plugin adds an extra button besides the normal 'Play'-button in the Editor toolbar. This button automatically launches your project in the nDisplay mode. For this 4[+1] modes are available:
- Two Screen - Opens two windows that side by side show an nDisplay view of your desktop
- MiniCAVE - Launches a folded open miniature cave on you screen to test CAVE related stuff in on your desktop
- CAVE - Use this button on your CAVE master to automatically start the demo from the editor directly in the CAVE
- ROLV - Use this button on your ROLV to automatically start the demo from the editor
- Supports DTrack starting, VRPN starting and Projector-3D-Mode switching
- [None] - The button does nothing
How to use this plugin:
- Add it as a submodule to your project by executing
git submodule add https://devhub.vr.rwth-aachen.de/VR-Group/NDisplayLaunchButton.git Plugins/NDisplayLaunchButton
from your projects root. - Execute the "Generate Project Files" for your project
- Build your project via VisualStudio
- Open your project
- Go to Edit -> Plugins -> Built-In -> Virtual Reality and disable OculusVR and SteamVR
- Restart the Editor
- Start the Project in normal Standalone Mode to start shader compilation and wait until all shaders are compiled
- You should see the newly added NDisplay Launch Button beside the normal Play Button. Hit it!
Options:
In Edit -> Project Settings -> Engine -> nDisplay Launch Button you can find the options of the plugin You can specify logging options and launch parameters in there.