RedOnion: Unrestricted In-game scripting - Development Thread

[evandisoft]

This thread can now be used for development discussion.

Release thread is now here instead.

Edited November 24, 2019 by evandisoft
Updating for new release

[firda]

Both RedOnion.Script RedOnion.ROS and RedOnion.UI are independent libraries and can be used by anybody (MIT license).

The code used to create the test window in the video from Evan (with the "Click Me!" button) looks like this:

var wnd = new window
function shutdown
  wnd.dispose

wnd.layout = layout.horizontal
var left = wnd.add new panel
left.layout = layout.vertical

var top = left.add new textbox
var box = left.add new textbox
box.multiline = true
box.flexHeight = 1

var right = wnd.add new panel
right.layout = layout.vertical

var btn = right.add new button
btn.text = "Click Me!"
var lbl = right.add new label
lbl.text = "Clicked 0x"

var counter = 0
function click
  counter++
  lbl.text = "Clicked " + counter + "x"
btn.click += click

wnd.y -= unity.screen.height / 3

The purpose of the shutdown function is to close the window when you click the Red Onion launcher button for second time.
It is looking for functions named fixedUpdate, update and onGUI, to execute them from the Launcher : MonoBehaviour,
so, you can e.g. try IMGUI from inside function onGUI. The list of imported objects can be seen here (the FillRoot method).

UPDATE: UI.Window now has ROS-native wrapper that will dispose the windown on engine reset or scene change. The engine is also no longer looking for any specific function, because you can now subscribe to system.update (aliased as ksp.update) or system.idle which are called from FixedUpdate. Subscriptions to update have precedence, idle may get invoked less often (especially if update used a lot of instructions and/or time).

ROS is currently unable to pause and continue the execution, so, do not write infinite loops
ROS2 was redesigned to allow yield/wait commands/functions and automatic fiber/coroutine switching - see launch.ros for the usage.

I will edit this post later, if we get some feedback...

Edited November 8, 2019 by firda
Update for ROS2 / first release for KSP 1.8

[evandisoft]

First experimental release:

https://spacedock.info/mod/2116/Red%20Onion

[evandisoft]

New Release (0.2.0): https://spacedock.info/mod/2116/Red Onion 

Original post updated.

ChangeLog:

Spoiler

0.2.0:

General:

• Improved error handling and reporting (line number and line content of where error/exception occured)

ROS:

• Fixed some engine and parser bugs (functions, lambdas and loops)
• Enhanced reflection, especially for IEnumerable and List (new for var e in list)

Documentation:

• Added CommonScriptApi.md: Documents some of the API for interacting with the game that is available to both Lua and ROS.
• Updated README.md
• Updated Docs for ROS and UI lib

Lua:

• Wrapper table class called, ProxyTable, created. Can be used to act in place of classes that MoonSharp cannot properly reflect.

Scripts:

• majorMalfunction.lua: A fun script that causes random parts to explode.
• selfDestruct.lua: A script that explodes all the parts starting from the parts furthest from the root.
• testFlightGui.ros: A script that creates a simple UI for interacting with the autopilot.

Videos:

• Demo of majorMalfunction.lua and selfDestruct.lua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAghlB2NLw
• ROS, Autopilot and UI using testFlightGui.ros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDBNb6jR_Cc

 

Edited April 2, 2019 by evandisoft

[evandisoft]

Now available on CKAN.

Also new minor release 0.2.1 with minor changes.

And next minor release coming soon.

[Stone Blue]

Hmmm... this looks interesting.

I'm wondering if this could be used in conjunction with writing Lua scripts for use with MOARdV's MAS mod. I beleive Lua is needed to code fuctions for many of the MAS IVA props.

MAS is here, if you are not familiar with it. I beleive MOARdV has a good tutorial on the Github repo Wiki.

MAS- MOARdV's Avionics Systems

Edited April 2, 2019 by Stone Blue

[evandisoft]

43 minutes ago, Stone Blue said:

Hmmm... this looks interesting.

Thanks!

43 minutes ago, Stone Blue said:

I'm wondering if this could be used in conjunction with writing Lua scripts for use with MOARdV's MAS mod. I beleive Lua is needed to code fuctions for many of the MAS IVA props.

I saw that project a while ago when I was first thinking about this project and looking for anything Lua-related that already exists.

The editor will eventually be capable of being used as a standalone tool for in-general editing of files in-game. It's not really at that point yet. It's tied into our scripting system.

But we are absolutely in favor of anyone using this scripting system for interacting with other mods. At this point we don't have an easy system provided for connecting the user to dll's that were not compiled with our project. I believe we will eventually be able to do that.

We're open to working with others on making this mod work well with other mods, and that is one of the goals: to make this a tool for other modders.

Edited April 2, 2019 by evandisoft

[evandisoft]

New release 0.3.3 (also on ckan). (Note: Scripts are still in GameData/RedOnion so if you delete that folder without backing up scripts you will lose them)

Edited April 16, 2019 by evandisoft

[firda]

We are currently testing our mod in KSP 1.8, expect a release soon.

The release will include launch script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evandisoft/RedOnion/master/GameData/RedOnion/Scripts/launch.ros

Parameter GUI:

Auto-staging:

Circularization:

Eccentricity 0.00001
Apoapsis: 79 929 m
Periapsis: 79 915 m

Edited November 8, 2019 by firda
e=0.00001 (so many zeros that I forgot one)

[evandisoft]

New Version 0.4.0. Updated for KSP 1.8.1