DesktopBuddyRuntime
Runtime payloads for DesktopBuddy, including FFmpeg, tunnel, virtual camera, and virtual audio setup files.
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DesktopBuddy
DesktopBuddy brings your Windows desktop, completely and 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.
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.
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.