Second screen minimap

[Akiyamka]

Description

Early or late people with more than one monitor come to the idea that they would like to see the minimap on the second monitor.
Most often, tricks like this are used for this purpose. One game - supreme commander - has this feature right out of the box.

It would be great to see such functionality in BAR, what do you think?

Why?

A large minimap is better perceived with side vision. But a large minimap obscures the view of the battlefield, so we compromise when choosing the size of the mini-map.
In a multi-monitor situation, compromise is no longer necessary

What area of the game does this feature request pertain?

UI/UX, Settings, Controls or Hotkeys

Other (optional)

No response

[hihoman23]

There is already a discord thread on this: https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/1171443977132724316/1171443977132724316

[Akiyamka]

@hihoman23 thank you!
From discord thread:

This already exists, but hidden on bar
/set DualScreenMode 1 on chat, make sure you've set the game to span 2 monitors.

This can help: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortool/
See supersize active window here: https://dualmonitortool.sourceforge.net/swapscreen.html
Reason why this is not in-game is because I didn't figure out how to make the game span 2 displays in windows reliably.
Other options: https://beyond-all-reason.github.io/spring/guides/configuration-variables/#DualScreenMode

So, we have next options related to our case:

Setting	Description	Type	Default	Source
DualScreenMode	Sets whether to split the screen in half, with one half for minimap and one for main screen. Right side is for minimap unless DualScreenMiniMapOnLeft is set.	bool	0	Source
DualScreenMiniMapOnLeft	When set, will make the left half of the screen the minimap when DualScreenMode is set.	bool	1	Source
DualScreenMiniMapAspectRatio	Whether minimap preserves aspect ratio on dual screen mode. (source)	bool	1	Source

In DualScreenMode BAR divides the game window into two parts, one of which is a mini-map,
The above-mentioned utility "dualmonitortool" allows this single window to be stretched across multiple monitors.

I have doubts that this will work for the setup shown in the photo at the beginning of the thread, but I'll try it and post what happened