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Question by Azzah22 · May 14, 2015 at 03:37 PM · tablet

Can Unity render to multiple different screens with different content?

Hi guys Im wanting to make an app that can be ran on my PC to run the game as a controller with output to the pc monitor. Then i want to be able to display content on a mega screen for the audience playing, and also have the users input there answers using their own tablets? and all working over wifi

Can Unity make something like this or am i barking up the wrong tree

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short answer YES but it would involve using servers and that is not my area

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What should i be searching to find these tutorials??

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I don't know that there are any. That's one of those complex problems that you need to design a way around for yourself. I would start with making a basic networked game though, so you can learn how networking works, if you haven't yet.

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Answer by FortisVenaliter · May 14, 2015 at 04:26 PM

So, yes, but not with one process. You'd basically need to set up a custom server infrastructure where the main game you are playing is the "server" and the projection and tablets are all clients that connect to and are managed by the server. Then it would be fairly standard net-code to make sure all the moving parts are syncing between clients, like any game (there are a bunch of tutorials for this on the web if you need help).

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Answer by fafase · May 15, 2015 at 06:47 PM

I did that once where one computer would run two unity apps (actually they were basic linux apps and no more unity).

The way I set it, I launched both apps manually, one was getting all of the main interaction including input that should be passed to the other app. Since they were run in the same computer, no need for server as I was simply saving the data on a text file. Then the second app would frequently check for the content of the text file and if different from the registered version then take an action.

Now you are using many tablets so sever seems to be of interest here. Most likely you could use a WWW form to post information to the server that would then dispatch to the computer that would subsequently pass on to the mega screen.

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