I recently got a projector off Amazon, and I've had this idea kicking around in the back of my head driving me crazy. It's so simple it's elegant.

In a typical game of starcraft, for example, you'll of course be familiar with how the battlefield is typically viewed on a computer monitor, which invariably ends up being a smaller portion of a much larger battlefield terrain.

What I'd like to do is simple, but I don't know how to get it done, technically speaking.

I want to have my projector project the whole battlefield at once, rather than a limited portion of it. Presto! Tabletop starcraft! Now if I could just get it to project the whole map...

Any suggestions?

Is starcraft open source?

9 minutes ago, StarcraftRoboticsGuy said:

I recently got a projector off Amazon, and I've had this idea kicking around in the back of my head driving me crazy. It's so simple it's elegant.

In a typical game of starcraft, for example, you'll of course be familiar with how the battlefield is typically viewed on a computer monitor, which invariably ends up being a smaller portion of a much larger battlefield terrain.

What I'd like to do is simple, but I don't know how to get it done, technically speaking.

I want to have my projector project the whole battlefield at once, rather than a limited portion of it. Presto! Tabletop starcraft! Now if I could just get it to project the whole map...

Any suggestions?

 

Not possible unless you can mod the game by changing up the camera.

9 minutes ago, Pepsidog said:

Is starcraft open source?

No, Starcraft is not open source. You can purchase the remastered version through Blizzard, but they do offer the non-remastered version for free through their BATTLE.NET client.

If there's no modding SDK, then there's no real way.

Yes but let's just suppose that I was projecting a video replay of a game... Now I could project that whole map as a replay, right? So, now I'm thinking, what I'd need to do is find a way to get a live game screen captured, and have that screen capture whisked off to be rendered for the projector display, sort of like a replay in rendered in real time.

Do you follow? Think that could work?

4 minutes ago, StarcraftRoboticsGuy said:

Yes but let's just suppose that I was projecting a video replay of a game... Now I could project that whole map as a replay, right? So, now I'm thinking, what I'd need to do is find a way to get a live game screen captured, and have that screen capture whisked off to be rendered for the projector display, sort of like a replay in rendered in real time.

Do you follow? Think that could work?

...... what?