DesktopBuddy
DesktopBuddy brings your desktop into Resonite with a virtual camera and microphone to integrate your desktop completly and seemlessly into resonite.
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DesktopBuddy
DesktopBuddy brings your desktop seamlessly into Resonite, including screensharing, control, a virtual camera and microphone, and more.
Install
Use a 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 while packages wait for review.
Linux prerequisites
⚠️ Linux support is experimental and may have issues. The core "share your desktop into Resonite" flow works (capture, input as touch, audio, virtual camera, streaming), but expect rough edges. In particular, the capture → renderer-side path is currently a CPU copy rather than a full GPU pipeline — due to some complexity this is a temporary path, so it may cause performance issues until it's replaced with a proper end-to-end GPU pipeline.
On Linux, DesktopBuddy uses your system's FFmpeg and cloudflared at runtime, and the virtual camera needs the v4l2loopback kernel module. DesktopBuddy cannot install packages for you — install them with your package manager before launching:
Arch / CachyOS
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg v4l2loopback-dkms cloudflared
Then use Devices → "Virtual camera setup" in-world to load and configure the camera module. (Windows needs no prerequisites.)
Features
- Spawn full desktops or monitors (and individual application windows on Windows) as grabbable curved panels.
- Interact with captured panels using VR controllers, hand tracking, or touch input.
- Fully GPU-accelerated desktop capture — Windows Graphics Capture on Windows, PipeWire / xdg-desktop-portal on Linux.
- Stream panels to other users through local encoding and remote HTTPS tunnel support.
- Virtual video camera (DirectShow on Windows, v4l2loopback on Linux) 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.
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
- For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.
Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: