IVA/Simpit with touchscreens

[millipz]

I would like to implement an external touchscreen or screens (iPad?) for simpit-type controls for IVA-only flying. I have looked at:

• Houston (looks great, web based so multiplatform, no controls)
• RPM and various IVA setups (these would be exactly what I'm imagining if the IVA textures/screens/buttons could be somehow streamed to a touchscreen)
• Hullcam VDS (this would be nice to simulate CCTV)
• CCP () last updated in march, seems dormant, no hullcam screens etc.

Has anyone tried a setup like this? Could a mod be built on RPM or MAS to send the textures to another monitor or a web stream? I imagine emabling the interactive controls would be harder.

[Mecripp]

For your CCTV same modder has 

 

[millipz]

16 hours ago, Mecripp said:

For your CCTV same modder has 

 

Ah yes, this looks nice, but not sure how to go about streaming this feed to a real physical second monitor or screen. Moar research needed!

[Nightside]

This looks like it might be useful to you:

 

[millipz]

3 hours ago, Nightside said:

This looks like it might be useful to you:

 

Thanks, I did see that. Looks very clever, and all props to the maker of that mod. However there must be a way to stream camera feeds from in game without needing a whole seperate instance of the game running! If they can render in an IVA cockpit...

I shall have a play with the available mods and see what I can rig up.

[Stone Blue]

57 minutes ago, millipz said:

However there must be a way to stream camera feeds from in game without needing a whole seperate instance of the game running! If they can render in an IVA cockpit...

The problem is, Unity did not support multi-monitor support, until Unity 2017, IIRC. KSP has updated to 2017, however they havent incorporated mult-monitor support into KSP yet. Since the update to Unity 2017 only happened recently, (KSP 1.4.0), I guess no modder has released any working attempts to make a mod that supports multi-monitor in KSP yet.

So it is what it is... all we have so far are pretty much the mods that were listed above.

 

[millipz]

2 hours ago, Stone Blue said:

The problem is, Unity did not support multi-monitor support, until Unity 2017, IIRC. KSP has updated to 2017, however they havent incorporated mult-monitor support into KSP yet. Since the update to Unity 2017 only happened recently, (KSP 1.4.0), I guess no modder has released any working attempts to make a mod that supports multi-monitor in KSP yet.

So it is what it is... all we have so far are pretty much the mods that were listed above.

 

This is fascinating, thanks for the insight. The news that the unity version supports multiple monitors gives me hope! Time to learn to mod I guess...

[DanGSun]

On 11/21/2018 at 6:05 PM, millipz said:

I would like to implement an external touchscreen or screens (iPad?) for simpit-type controls for IVA-only flying. I have looked at:

• Houston (looks great, web based so multiplatform, no controls)
• RPM and various IVA setups (these would be exactly what I'm imagining if the IVA textures/screens/buttons could be somehow streamed to a touchscreen)
• Hullcam VDS (this would be nice to simulate CCTV)
• CCP () last updated in march, seems dormant, no hullcam screens etc.

Has anyone tried a setup like this? Could a mod be built on RPM or MAS to send the textures to another monitor or a web stream? I imagine emabling the interactive controls would be harder.

Hello. You can use MKON for contols & Houston for graphs, ETC. There are integrated in my Telemachus Bundle.