LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin

[JoeViking245]

On 3/11/2023 at 1:51 PM, Retrofrogg said:

A setting in the app should be able to sort this I think!

Try this beta release..↴

  MultiMonitor2022 (v1.1.5 beta-3a) .7z ⟵ (replace your existing "MultiMonitor2022.dll" file with the one inside this zip)

Open setup from the Tools menu.  You'll see the new option to set the initial 3D Box Model size.  *3* is the default.

You can also see a preview by clicking Test.  Change platforms in the dropdown box below it.  Click Close to close the preview window or simply click Exit.  Be sure to click Save 1st if you made changes you want to keep.

[Retrofrogg]

That's awesome @JoeViking245, you're the man! It's useful because square boxes and rectangular boxes looks very different when they have the same default zoom. You're right, one size does not fit all. Now we can change this manually when we switch platform. If it could remember the setting for the different platforms that would be even more awesome

Also - I don't know if this is possible - when you move the mouse to the second screen to rotate the box in Launchbox, the video stops playing on the main Launchbox screen (presumably as that screen is no longer active). Is there any way to have the video keep playing while you look at the box?

Edited March 13, 2023 by Retrofrogg

[tdixpix]

Semi-related -- I really like your 'now playing' dotmatrix display next to the addressable LEDs above your screen. Are those activated using your plugin? If not, how?

Also, how do you have those dotmatrix displays plugged in?

Thanks!

Edited January 4, 2025 by tdixpix

[JoeViking245]

5 hours ago, tdixpix said:

Semi-related -- I really like your 'now playing' dotmatrix display next to the addressable LEDs above your screen. Are those activated using your plugin? If not, how?

Also, how do you have those dotmatrix displays plugged in?

I'm not sure what you're referring to.  This plugin doesn't handle Startup Screens ('now loading'). Also, I don't have a DMD.

You might be thinking of superrob3000's ThirdScreen Plugin.

 

[mrpetenorth]

Everything looks great. I've opted for Clear Logos on the second screen because some of my 3d boxes look a bit lo-res, but it has nixed my game music which is set to play when a game is selected. When switching to a game I hear a fraction of a second of the music and then silence until I select another game (then another fraction of a second and so on). Any ideas why??

[JoeViking245]

2 minutes ago, mrpetenorth said:

Everything looks great. I've opted for Clear Logos on the second screen because some of my 3d boxes look a bit lo-res, but it has nixed my game music which is set to play when a game is selected. When switching to a game I hear a fraction of a second of the music and then silence until I select another game (then another fraction of a second and so on). Any ideas why??

If you disable the plugin, does the game music then play as before? 

Really though, this plugin enabled or disabled shouldn't be affecting any music playing/not-playing.  It doesn't even look at nor touch anything to do with sound.

[domino1879]

Stumbled across this thread because I need a third screen while playing MAME games on the main screen of my pinball setup. When playing pinball, my vertical screen has the playfield, my big screen has the backglass, and my small screen acts as the DMD. But when I'm playing MAME through launchbox, I have the game on my big screen and the marquee on the small DMD screen. The vertical monitor I use for the pinball playfield just has shows the desktop. I'm looking for an option to just show an image or a wallpaper while I'm playing MAME, and then it will switch to pinball when I launch pinball. Is this plugin capable of doing what I want? If it can play a small looped animation, even better.

Edited 10 hours ago by domino1879

[JoeViking245]

39 minutes ago, domino1879 said:

Stumbled across this thread because I need a third screen while playing MAME games on the main screen of my pinball setup. When playing pinball, my vertical screen has the playfield, my big screen has the backglass, and my small screen acts as the DMD. But when I'm playing MAME through launchbox, I have the game on my big screen and the marquee on the small DMD screen. The vertical monitor I use for the pinball playfield just has shows the desktop. I'm looking for an option to just show an image or a wallpaper while I'm playing MAME, and then it will switch to pinball when I launch pinball. Is this plugin capable of doing what I want? If it can play a small looped animation, even better.

It might be able to if you have LaunchBox running on the main screen (backglass).  But I don't think I made it able to do an image rotate or format for a vertical screen.  It definitely can't provide animations.

SuperRob's ThirdScreen plugin might be able to help with that.  Maybe.