Multi-window or multi-monitor support

[Guest Syfier]

I'm evaluating engine now and I can't find if it supports rendering into 2 windows at same time. I need to render from 2 cameras to 2 monitors.

Anyone know if engine has such a feature? Many thanks.

[Josh]

It is possible to render to two separate windows, but you will need to initialize an OpenGL context in each yourself.

[VeTaL]

Good question. So i may initialize only OpenGl in every window... and how i can then connect this with Leadwerks?

[Canardia]

I don't think multi-monitor support has anything to do with the Engine, but it's a pure OS feature. If Windows/Linux shows your desktop properly on 2 or more monitors (Linux has also 3D desktops inside each monitor), the window in which the Engine runs can be also moved to any monitor.

 

Fullscreen mode might cause some issues, but that's also an OS issue then. You can shutdown the other monitor when running Fullscreen if that's a problem.

[VeTaL]

Okay, lets leave multi-monitor questions. Really, i'm interested in multi-window usage, as designers ask for 4 perspectives like in Max.

Looking like i need 4 cameras, and then how can i separate it into some windows?

[Canardia]

You don't necessarily need OS Windows for that, but you can just draw 4 images in the Engine window.

[VeTaL]

OS Windows or not windows - that isnt a problem.. Problem is to render 4 views in 4 windows (or just in one component) in one program.

[Masterxilo]

Just have four "TBuffer mybackbuffers[4];" and render to these, then draw those to the window's BackBuffer() using DrawImage() as Lumooja suggested.