In-Game Third Party App Messages

[LCU No Fool Like One]

There are some 3rd Party apps that will display text overlaid on the game screen however I think it would be much more immersive especially for players in VR if there were a cockpit screen or message screen on foot that could be used to display messages from third party applications.

It would work in a similar fashion to the way the EDMC-Overlay plugin works.

The game sets up a listener on a non-priveleged port that accepts text messages.

Then third party apps would be able to send data directly to the listener which would inject the text messages into the in-game comms.

I think it might work best with a seperate tab in the comms panel or included with chat but however it is done it would be to be available on all modes of transport.

 

[alterNERDtive]

ooh! ah! that would be awesome!

 

[alterNERDtive]

I’ve always been dreaming of an API for the comms system; being able to define channels that the game client “joins” locally, with the ability to both send messages from applications to the game and listening to messages from the game in those channels.