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DesktopBuddy
DesktopBuddy brings your Windows desktop into Resonite with a virtual camera and microphone to integrate windows completly and seemlessly into resonite.DesktopBuddy
DesktopBuddy brings your Windows desktop into Resonite with a virtual camera and microphone to integrate windows completly and seemlessly into resonite.
Install
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Follow instructions here to setup resonite with Gale, a mod manager for bepis mods. https://modding.resonite.net/getting-started/installation/
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Search for DesktopBuddy and enable the mod.
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Launch resonite with Gale.
GitHub release zips are the bleeding-edge manual install path and may update faster than Thunderstore while packages wait for review.
Features
- Spawn full desktops, monitors, or individual application windows as grabbable curved panels.
- Interact with windows using VR controller, hand tracking, or touch input.
- Fully gpu accelerated WGC desktop capture.
- Stream panels to other users through local encoding and remote HTTPS tunnel support.
- Virtual video camera drivers for windows so you can do video calls from within resonite.
- Virtual microphone driver for windows so friends can hear you in calls in resonite.
- Use privacy controls for hiding or limiting what other users can see.
- Adjust capture, streaming, audio, culling, viewer, and debug options from the in-world settings panel.
- Keep game-side and renderer-side work separated through the shared texture bridge.
Credits
Special thanks to the projects and libraries DesktopBuddy builds on.
| Project | What DesktopBuddy uses it for |
|---|---|
| BepisLoader | Game-side BepInEx loader |
| BepisResoniteWrapper | Resonite engine-ready startup hook |
| InterprocessLib | Control messages between the game plugin and renderer bridge |
| BepInEx.Renderer | Renderer-side BepInEx loader |
| RenderiteHook | Renderer-side hook support |
| FFmpeg | H.264/HEVC encoding libraries in DesktopBuddyRuntime |
| FFmpeg.AutoGen | C# bindings for FFmpeg, packaged in DesktopBuddyRuntime |
| cloudflared | Bundled Cloudflare Tunnel client for public HTTPS stream URLs |
| SoftCam | DirectShow virtual camera filter |
| VB-Cable | Virtual microphone driver; no public source repository is provided by VB-Audio |
| Harmony | Runtime patching |
| CsWinRT | Windows Runtime interop support used by Windows.Graphics.Capture |
License
AGPL-3.0 - see LICENSE.