API to control RGB peripherals

[minus1over12]

Consider some of the following cases:

• A player would like their lighting to change based on the station alert level for better immersion.
• A player would like the lights on their mouse to change depending on if harm mode is enabled or not.
• A player would like their lighting to reflect their currently held item. (Having an esword in your hand should change your mouse to match the esword; having a rainbow lizard in your hand should make your mouse rainbow.)
• A syndicate pAI would like their hardware colors to become crimson to reflect how evil they are.
• A player would like the colors of their headset to match the coloring of the headset they are wearing in game to feel more in character when chatting.

Robust could do a lot for immersion by adding in integration with colorable peripherals that is not frequently seen in other games.

From a technical perspective, this would probably be done by making an abstraction that works with various RGB control SDKs. On Windows, the Windows SDK provides a namespace to do this, although I have not looked into how capable it is. On Linux, you would need to work with an SDK provided by OpenRGB or some similar software.

I think this is an engine level issue, but if it should be in the content repo, I can remake the issue there.

[PJB3005]

On Windows, the Windows SDK provides a namespace to do this

What API is this?

I think this is an engine level issue, but if it should be in the content repo, I can remake the issue there.

Yeah this is engine.

[minus1over12]

What API is this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.devices.lights?view=winrt-26100 - although I admit that I am a Linux user and have never tried using it before.