DrivingRangeTheater

DrivingRangeTheater

Does your lobby host step away for a bathroom break between games? Do you and your friends often wait for someone to finish something AFK between furious 18-hole battles? This is the mod for you. Add a mod to r2-modman with a /videos folder and it's content will be displayed in beautiful big picture cinema to enjoy as a group while you wait for whoever to finish making dinner, using the bathroom, or having appendicitis (looking at you Baustin).

Don't know how to make a mod? drop a video file over at and it will automatically turn the video file into a compatible mod to view from your very own golf drive-in. Be aware that it's not a quick process to re-encode video files and assemble mod-packages entirely client side (in browser). I am a busy fella so I may or may not get around to efficiency improvements, feel free to open a pull request for the site as it's open source to allow other developers to add improvements! (github for contributors:

Speaking of being a busy fella, here is chat gpt rewriting my three paragraph explaination of the mod framework into something more organized. Cheers.

Turns the driving-range leaderboard TV into a video player. Hit the cycle buttons (forward / back)

to flip between clips; each client controls their own playback volume from the pause menu.

This mod is a framework. It does not ship with any videos. Pair it with content mods, or drop

your own files into Videos/ under any plugin folder.

Install

Via r2modman or Mod Manager:

search for Cray-DrivingRangeTheater and install, plus any content packs you want.

Manual install: drop DrivingRangeTheater.dll into

/BepInEx/plugins/Cray-DrivingRangeTheater.

Requires BepInExPack 5.4.2305.

Every player in a lobby needs the same mods installed, including the same video content, because

cycle state is server-authoritative and replicated via Mirror.

Usage

• Original button: next video.
• Cloned button beside it: previous video.
• Pause menu while on the driving range: client-local Screen res, Theater volume, and

Screen fit controls.

• If the screen trims the edges of a clip, adjust OverscanCompensation in

BepInEx/config/cray.drivingrangetheater.cfg.

Adding videos

Drop video files into any of the following locations under a plugin package — the framework

scans all of them at startup and sorts across all matches alphabetically, deduping by path:

• /Videos/ — canonical.
• /Video/ — also accepted (singular).
• / (plugin root) — only if a same-basename audio sidecar

(.ogg.wav.mp3.m4a/…) sits next to it. The sidecar requirement keeps the scanner

from picking up unrelated mp4s a plugin ships for other reasons.

Video

Recommended format: MP4 (H.264 8-bit / yuv420p). This is the safest format for Unity's

VideoPlayer backend on Windows. Also accepted by extension:.webm,.mov,.ogv,.mkv,.m4v, but decode support varies. H.264 10-bit (High 10, yuv420p10le) will fail with

VideoPlayer cannot play url.

Transcode problematic files with:

ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 22 -preset veryfast \

-c:a copy output.mp4

Audio

Super Battle Golf has Unity's native audio disabled project-wide, so the VideoPlayer's built-in

audio paths are silent. The framework plays audio from a sidecar file next to each video through

FMOD.

Ship an audio file alongside every video with the same basename, for example

1 Gwimbly.mp4 -> 1 Gwimbly.ogg. Accepted extensions, first match wins:.ogg,.wav,.mp3,.m4a,.aac,.flac. If no sidecar is found, the video still plays

silently.

Extract.ogg audio from an existing mp4 with:

ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -vn -c:a libvorbis -q:a 4 input.ogg

Audio is played as a 3D FMOD sound positioned at the theater screen, not as a global 2D mix.

Volume ramps linearly from full at 6 m to silent at 45 m — you can stand well away from

the screen and still hear