DesktopBuddy

DesktopBuddy brings your Windows desktop, completely and seamlessly into Resonite, including screensharing, control, a virtual camera and microphone, and more.

Install

Use a Thunderstore mod manager, such as Gale, to install the mod directly.

GitHub release zips are provided on the DesktopBuddy Github for manual installation. They will include bleeding-edge features 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 controllers, 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 for Windows for video calls and more from within Resonite.
Virtual microphone for Windows for voice calls with spatialized voice from 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.