Desktop Multi Display Problem

I wanted to give the Multi Display Rendering a quick look, but it seems that some parts are missing.
I'm able to activate the other screens (by scripting), but on the Camera Component the "Target Display" Dialog is missing. The activated screen only shows a gray picture.


Do I have to use a speical kind of camera to unlock this feature?

Thanks in advance.

 

Yup, same here ... I'm pretty excited about this change because I'm hoping it will be used by the native VR integration so we can have a better way to select which cameras get rendered to the HMD (so I'd expect this field to be populated with Display 1-8 + HMD).

But currently I only see "Target Eye" when I have switched Virtual Reality Supported on. And I find it a bit confusing to have settings in components appear / disappear based on a project setting.

 

I filed a bug report on this, Case 738136.

 

QA Team states that this is a intended behaviour. So is the documentation the problem?
What is the proper way to use Multi-Display then?

 

How can behaviour that contradicts the documentation be intended?

 

Ok, great!

Are you talking to the VR-team so that they'll use this instead of putting the same functionality into "Target Eye"?

 

So as I understand: "Graphics: Render to multiple displays on PC" is targeted at VR display functionality? Not for multidisplay setups like triple screens and the likes? kinda hoping I'm wrong about this.

[update]
Found some documentation related to multi display
Display class and as mentioned above the Camera.targetDisplay doesnt seem to work corretly for me in build.

would be nice if we could simulate the multi displays in the editor using multiple game views for example.
[/update]

 

Just found the display selection pulldown in the game view (very nice).
Also noticed that it if you have three different screens with different resolutions the views get unaligned, with bands along the top and bottom. After changing the resolution to the same over all three screens it worked just fine.
Any chance for different resolutions?

 

left primary screen [2]: 1920x1200
middle laptop screen [1]: 1920x1080
right secondary [3]: 1680x1050

posted bug report with screenshots and build, Case: 742254

 

Using this flag corrects the layout, and the resolutions are corrected instead of blue bands i get neat black edges where the screens are offset, thanks

 

Question for Venkify or robinb-u3d:

Our application requires a projector and a touchscreen running different aspect ratios, namely 4:3 projector and 16:9 touchscreen. Will the upcoming multi-display rendering feature allow me to display game content at 4:3 via projector while displaying 16:9 remote control UI content via touchscreen? Right now the only way I can achieve this is by running two instances of the app using networking or IPC for communication between remote (touchscreen) and content (projector). It would be extremely helpful if we could do this via one application instance and display two windows to two displays running different aspect ratios.

Thanks in advance for any information you can share about this exciting new feature!!

 

I partially answered this already by downloading the latest 5.3 beta and I can get it to work in the editor by setting up multiple cameras and assigning them to different displays, but when I build I only get a single window displaying a single camera view. I am using the -multidisplay flag. I do not see any information on multidisplay in the documentation. Any idea where I am going wrong? Do I have to set up clustered rendering to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Update: Found this document via beta release notes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWbyeiRy-Y2FnCiIvcKcZu7l5lf3vCcGYfrvAW53cTI/edit?pli=1

Looks like each display must be activated through script during app startup. Makes sense, going to give it a try.

Update 2: It works! Huge feature for us! But, it is a bit wonky in that there is a black line going through the top of the screen and a "task bar"-sized black gap on the bottom of the screen, BUT I am getting two windows from the same app and that just makes my day! Thanks Unity Devs!!

 

Okay after some testing here is what I have found running 5.3b6:

1. Mouse clicks are not raising events on the secondary display. In other words, I can click the mouse to activate a button on Display[1], but not on Display[2].

2. Calling Activate with arguments or without yields the same result:
Display.displays[2].Activate(1280,960,60);
Display.displays[2].Activate();
^ Both of these calls result in the second monitor's content to be 1920 pixels across with what looks like 720 pixels down with a large black border at the bottom of the screen as seen here:


Not sure if these issues are bugs, regressions, or expected behavior.

 

So now it's possible to render an individual camera to a single display, is it possible to also render a single camera over all displays? this would be handy for stuff like UI overlays and so on...

 

Hey everybody,

I'm looking forward to the update on the Input System, any word on that yet?
In the mean time not sure if this helps anyone..
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/5-3-0f2-multiple-displays-canvas-overlapping.371126/

 

Hello everyone,

Another "bug" or annoying problem for multidisplay fullscreen executable is :
You can't get focus back on both screens once you alt+tab or switch to another application after start of the game.

It's very annoying because, generally, such a feature is often related to using several applications together.... thus requiring in/out of focus of the fullscreen unity executable.

I tried everything, the -multidisplay flag, or even re-activating with :

Code (CSharp):

1.   if (Display.displays.Length > 1)
2.             Display.displays[1].Activate();

in a OnApplicationFocus (seems buggy too) or even through a simple keyboard shortcut.
Nothing can get the focus back on both displays once you lose focus. (secondary display stays "minimized")

Maybe something i don't get, or a bug ?
I'm with latest 5.3.0f2 with Windows 7 64bits and 2 Full HD screens.

Thank you very much,

SMaX

 

Will different resolution screens be supported on release?

 

This is an extremely important feature for our project. If the release build will not support different resolutions and aspect ratios we'd like to know as soon as possible so we can find an alternate solution like running two separate unity apps or something. Our app requires content to be projected at 4:3 and a touchscreen remote running 16:9.

As always, any information you can share is mucho appreciated!!!