New broadcasting software - taking ideas!

[Freddie]

I think current hardware is fast enough for it to be useful for certain purposes -- certainly for slow things like checking stats, moving inventory, etc. The window could be small and the frame rate slow to suit whatever the hardware can handle. And hardware is getting faster all the time, so this feature will become more and more useful. As for sending commands, if this is written carefully, I don't think that would be affected.

Edit: I should add that the first guy who asked me for this wanted it because his two PCs were in different rooms of his house but on the same local network. We're not necessarily talking about Internet latencies.

[skarlot]

It's doable from a directX hook for sure, that would be how fraps and so on do it. I thought about writing a video recorder to stream from all windows into one AVI but never got around to it. This is out side the scope of this project, at least for now.

[Zuri]

Here's a feature request:

Round Robin groups - e.g. Playing a mixed group I may have a pally on instance 1, mages on instances 2 and 3 and a loc and priest on 4 and 5 so I want 3 round robin groups, one group with 2 and 3 in it and mebbe F9 and F10 to be round robined for ice block and sheep (but passed normally to other instances), and one group with 4 and 5 with their own keys assisgned for Fears for instance, and a third group for 1 and 5...

[Ghallo]

Most of the features you mentioned are ones I would want.

• Per clone white/black list. (I'd just set this up to have the clones receive based on these lists rather than the master broadcasting based on these lists).
• Per clone "send only", which can be swapped with a keybind (so the "main" is send only).
• All configuration features as part of profiles so I can setup everything a different way for each of my teams.
• Ability to copy profiles, both as a "new template" and from one PC to another.
• TEST MODE. Once all the white/black lists are setup, I'd like a simple way to play around and test what commands are making it to what clients, and to see what my Maximizer setup will look like. Doesn't need to be pretty - just needs to get the job done.
• If possible (thinking big here) - have mappings to foreign keys so I can really get crazy with keybindings.

I'll think of more later. I really like Octopus - it does just about everything I need - so a beefier version of that would make me happy as a clam.

[Fleecy]

• Per clone white/black list. (I'd just set this up to have the clones receive based on these lists rather than the master broadcasting based on these lists).
• Per clone "send only", which can be swapped with a keybind (so the "main" is send only).
• Ability to copy profiles, both as a "new template" and from one PC to another.
• TEST MODE. Once all the white/black lists are setup, I'd like a simple way to play around and test what commands are making it to what clients, and to see what my Maximizer setup will look like. Doesn't need to be pretty - just needs to get the job done.

A per clone white/black list is a feature I'd love too. Especially for mixed class groups. I have my mixed class key binds a such:
Mage = Ctrl+Shift+ <key>
Priest = Alt+Shift+ <key>
Hunter = Shift+ <key>
etc....

I have all my key bindings set on the white list (obviously) but when keys are pressed eg... Ctrl+Shift+B, which causes the mage to cast FireBall, it also causes the Priest to toggle bags, or maybe the Warlock to cast some other spell that might be bound to Ctrl+B. To get around this I just bind the "problem" key to a blank toolbar button. All the clients still recieve the key binding but its simply ignored becaue of the blank button. But... if it was simply ignored/dropped by Octopus version 2 (for lack of better name) that would be awsome!

[Freddie]

Let's think positive. Internet. . . by satellite!

[skarlot]

Here's a feature request:

Round Robin groups - e.g. Playing a mixed group I may have a pally on instance 1, mages on instances 2 and 3 and a loc and priest on 4 and 5 so I want 3 round robin groups, one group with 2 and 3 in it and mebbe F9 and F10 to be round robined for ice block and sheep (but passed normally to other instances), and one group with 4 and 5 with their own keys assisgned for Fears for instance, and a third group for 1 and 5...

This is something on the list.

Most of the features you mentioned are ones I would want.

• Per clone white/black list. (I'd just set this up to have the clones receive based on these lists rather than the master broadcasting based on these lists).
• Per clone "send only", which can be swapped with a keybind (so the "main" is send only).
• All configuration features as part of profiles so I can setup everything a different way for each of my teams.
• Ability to copy profiles, both as a "new template" and from one PC to another.
• TEST MODE. Once all the white/black lists are setup, I'd like a simple way to play around and test what commands are making it to what clients, and to see what my Maximizer setup will look like. Doesn't need to be pretty - just needs to get the job done.
• If possible (thinking big here) - have mappings to foreign keys so I can really get crazy with keybindings.

I'll think of more later. I really like Octopus - it does just about everything I need - so a beefier version of that would make me happy as a clam.

lol, templates for profiles as well :P I'll have to see. Currently I see the system rendering key combo's down various 'modules' (not finalised the terminology yet heh). By foreign key I see it as, sends the key to another PC, which then maps it. My current thinking allows for this. The actual time to get this done is probably like, 2months, if all goes well, and within a week probably how it's like latency wise - whether I need a full C++ layer as well, probably not. Although, the KM I did is in C++ so it's as fast as possible.

[DualTholo]

Mhh
Do you think i am Acc Sharing?!?!? No way!

I have 3 PC´s in my House, all in 1 Room but 2 PC are on the table from my Girlfriend an my table is to small for this.
But i think its right when you say RemoteWoW .
The Pc´s are in the same LAN.

i damed my english by the way...

[Syro]

Some of my suggestions have been voiced already, and I know I'll think of some more soon.

I just want to backup skarlot here since I am a programmer by trade as well, and this is the BEST time to make suggestions or what you'd like to see. Things you can add/do in the design phase is the best way to see it to fruition. When you develop software, you have to come up with a design first, because adding anything to it later on can be a hassle. Feature creep, code rewrite, etc. A scope of work is what he;s looking for, because some features will define how he's going to write this.

[DualTholo]

I have e new Idea for this programm

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