Split a scene into a display cluster

To host a cluster session, you must be using Showcase Professional. You can join a session from any version of Showcase.

You can use a cluster of computers to present your scene, with each computer attached to a monitor that shows one tile of a larger display.

Present a scene on multiple displays

1. Open the scene on the host machine.

   Then repeat the following steps for each of the other machines in the cluster:

2. Start a hosted session on the host machine.
3. Start the software on the cluster machine and open the scene.
4. Select File > Settings > Multi-Machine Display.
5. The Multi-Machine Display window appears.
6. Click the radio button This Showcase session displays only one tile of a larger image.
   
7. Specify the number of tiles horizontally and vertically that make up the large screen.

   (Specify the same values for all machines.)

   

   A grid diagram appears, showing the number of tiles you specified in the horizontal and vertical directions.

   
8. Click on the grid diagram to specify which viewport screen is shown by the current machine.

   (This setting is determined by the physical location of the monitor connected to the machine.)

   
9. Join the host session.
   
   Note

   To view the entire scene again on the machine display, click on the button This Showcase session displays the whole scene image.

10. After you repeat the previous steps for each of the machines in the cluster, repeat them again for the first (host) machine to complete the cluster display.

Adjust the tiling

To adjust how the screens overlap, touch, or are separated from each other, use these controls to specify the number of horizontal and vertical pixels in the gaps or overlaps in the boxes provided.