Spring RTS Engine

I had a simple idea: in dual screen mode, instead of one screen the action and the other a full screen minimap, why not have both screens as actual game views each with their own unit selection? I find a map fully zoomed out more useful than a minimap of the same size since its easier to understand whats going on. Plus I would have the ability to zoom in when necessary and I would find it useful to press 't' to auto follow a unit such as an allied commander or one of my peewees I sent in to harass mexes. I understand it wouldn't be completely simple to program this - allowing a unit to be selected on two separate screen could create some unforeseen consequences. I often get tunnel vision in games and focus on my own base too much while there is a skirmish in the middle of the map or vice versa. This would alleviate that and improve the quality of my play and also my satisfaction with the game.

just don't enable DualScreenMode then and you got what you want

jK wrote:just don't enable DualScreenMode then and you got what you want

I think he's asking for two "cameras", disabling DualScreenMode just spreads the one camera out across the two screens IIRC.

This would be a great feature.

I remember being able to create a window with a second viewport/camera in The Settlers 2, and it was actually quite useful.

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