[Release]Triple Monitor Interface

[milkan]

I recently bought three new monitors and want to try triple monitor gaming with CK2.

I was hoping to make a Interface/HUD mod for myself (my bezel corrected resolution is 5930x1080) and was hoping for someone to point to me which files I would need to modify to get all the interface buttons and such on the central monitor only.

The minimap is in main.gui but I am unsure about the other icons and interface bars and which files they are located in.

I am able to get the minimap in the central monitor by modifying the following (line 736) in main.gui

position = { x=-280 y=-248 }

Any help with the rest of the interface would be greatly appreciated.

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EDIT : I finished most of the mod but am stuck in one place only.

I have also decided to release my Triple Monitor Interface HUD mod for now. Hope it helps someone else as well.

Current Bugs :

• Sometimes the diplomacy interaction window opens in the leftmost monitor instead of the central monitor

 

[milkan]

So after lots and lots of messing around in the interface files I finally got ALMOST of the interface elements in the central screen.
The modding itself was not very difficult but finding out where each interface element was a right pain.
Not to mention having to load CK2 a few thousand times just to check every change.
Wish the debug command reloadinterface was not locked to the developers only.

Anyways I am now stuck with only the right click menu not working correctly in every case. Basically if I am right clicking a character the diplomatic interface is opening correctly.

However if I am clicking an alert, or clicking on the peace button in the war menu, or right clicking a holding in the province view then the menus are opening in the left monitor again.

Spoiler

In this image you can see that clicking the alert icon (1) opens the diplomatic interaction box in the left monitor (2).

Spoiler

In this case right clicking the Castle Holding (1) creates the holding menu (2) in the left monitor again.

I messed around in the interface/domestic_diplomacy.gui but it doesn't seem to be exactly what I am looking for. I am pretty sure that this mod is almost complete but here's hoping someone can help with this little bit left.

 

[antihero_929]

According to: http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Troubleshooting; you might be able to use

-debug -debugscripts

for reloadinterface. Good luck

I had an analogue Matrox TH2G back in the day, it was amazing.

 

[milkan]

-debug -debugscripts

for reloadinterface. Good luck

Wow this has been immensely helpful for some of the elements that I have not touched yet. Although I still cannot resolve the issues highlighted in the 2nd post, I have found some things.

• I find that I need to press the console key (~) in the main menu and then all the interface elements get highlighted with a red box with corresponding filename and gui element details, so good! This only works in the main menu and not once a savegame has been loaded though.
• Another thing I noticed is that using the console commands (reloadinterface) and (reload <filename>) need to be done while a save game is loaded BUT it is possible to resign, quit to the main menu and reload the save game and the files are reloaded correctly. This has saved me a lot time.

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Regarding the issues in the 2nd post, I find the interface element is in

interface\domestic_diplomacy.gui, Line 15
domestic_diplomacy::right_part

Changing Line 18 from

position = { x = 0 y = 0 }
to
position = { x = 2006 y = 0 }

gets the dialogue box in the correct position in the following cases

• For dialogue box generated when clicking an alert
• When clicking the Peace button from the War screen
• When right clicking a holding in a province

However when I am right clicking a portrait in any screen the dialogue box is opening in another monitor.

NOTE : 2006 is the offset number needed to move interface elements from one of my monitors to another for my setup. It can and probably will vary for other people having different resolutions.
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So I am stuck in this final thing. Everything else has been resolved I think.

 

[milkan]

I am releasing the mod for anyone else who also wants to play CK2 in triple monitor setup. As mentioned there is 1 bug which I have been unable to fix. For anything else if I missed a window or such do inform me and I will see if I can fix that.

Paging @Captain Gars and/or @Meneth, I wonder if either of you can help me fixing what I am missing here.

Also can some mod please change the title to show that the post to [Release]Triple Monitor Interface

 

[Meneth]

Paging @Captain Gars and/or @Meneth, I wonder if either of you can help me fixing what I am missing here.

You should probably page @Divine rather than me.

 

[milkan]

Ah sorry I haven't been active in CK2 or its modding for over a year now. Reaper's Due kinds re-kindled my interest again.

 

[Divine]

Cool interface mod.
I've updated the thread title for you.

About the right click issue I unfortunately don't have time to look into it right now.

 

[milkan]

Thanks.

 

[ngppgn]

@milkan
Thanks you about posting the tips on reload interface - I'be found them inmensely helpful!
One question though: reloadinterface seems to reload the actual graphical assets (tga and dds files) but if I chamge values in e.g. a gui file and use reloadinterface, then save and reload, thr changes are not reflected.

So I wanted to ask, have you found a way to refresh changes in guibfiles without having to exit/reboot the game?

 

[milkan]

Nice to see some interest. And of course I'll be happy to help.

So when I am editing .gui files (which to be honest for interfaces is always 95% of the time), I found that you need to use the console to reload the file from your mod using the command

reload <filename.gui>

As long as your mod has the file in the correct location it loads it. Afterwards all you need to do is exit to main menu and reload the game.

Hope this helps.

 

[Meneth]

In the case of some parts of the UI, "reloadgui" will cause it to update. This doesn't work for everything though.
Other than that, exiting to the main menu after reloading a specific file should generally work, since that causes that particular UI to be recreated from the now reloaded file, like @milkan says.

 

[goondo]

@milkan
I checked out your mod just to see what fields you had edited to re-position everything. I was surprised to see that that you had included the plot.dds file in the gfx/interface directory. Why was that necessary? I didn't see a difference in the images in gimp.

Thanks for putting up the useful console commands, and great job on the mod.

 

[milkan]

@milkan
I checked out your mod just to see what fields you had edited to re-position everything. I was surprised to see that that you had included the plot.dds file in the gfx/interface directory. Why was that necessary? I didn't see a difference in the images in gimp.

Thanks for putting up the useful console commands, and great job on the mod.

That is because I increased my intrigue decision window from 4 to 6 like in the mod BiggerDecisionWindow. It was just personal preference on my part and other than the Intrigue window it doesn't have any other effects.

My pleasure, it took a while and I tried commenting everywhere I changed the values so that it could help others. Modding in Paradox games is kinda obtuse yet easy. Sadly I could not make everything i wanted happen but its a nice start I think.