Humbly Requesting Assistance from somebody more experienced then me

[DevOverlord]

Hello,

There is a hobby project that I'd like to undertake and I need to some data from KSP that, based on my research, is only available whilst the game is running. I've spent about 3 days exploring various techniques of getting at the data (including trying to do it from my language of choice, GoLang) and after accepting defeat due to a lack of understanding of hooking into a DLL from Golang, finally settled on just writing a plugin, even though I believe it is probably overkill due to i think it being a one time thing. 

What I need is to serialize the `FlightGlobals.Bodies` list to JSON but also include the attributes from each of the Bodies PQSControllers. I want to generate Google Maps esq Maps of Kerbin, like what the https://github.com/Sigma88/Sigma-Cartographer Mod does but outside of the game.

I'm struggling getting a JSON Serializer to work, and about to pull the very little amount of hair I have on my middle aged head out. Can somebody assist me? Below is a HelloWorld script that I've been trying to do this in. 

I want to wrap this up with I am not a C# Dev and I'm struggling to understand your ecosystem. So i apologize if I did something stupid already

Code:

using System.IO;
using UnityEngine;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace HelloKSC
{
    [KSPAddon(KSPAddon.Startup.MainMenu, false)]
    public class HelloKerbal : MonoBehaviour
    {

        public void Start()
        {
            FlightGlobals.Bodies.ForEach(delegate (CelestialBody body) {
          

                string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(body);

                File.WriteAllText(@"C:\Users\<sanitized>\kerbinexcrements\" + body.name + ".txt", json);


            });

        }
    }
}

                  
                  
[EXC 12:48:32.413] BadImageFormatException: Could not resolve field token 0x0400049e, due to: Could not load type of field 'Newtonsoft.Json.Utilities.EnumUtils+<>c:<>9__1_0' (1) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. assembly:System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 type:<unknown type> member:(null) signature:<none> assembly:R:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\HelloKerbin\Newtonsoft.Json.dll type:<>c member:(null) signature:<none>
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonWriter.BuildStateArray () (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonWriter..cctor () (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	Rethrow as TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Newtonsoft.Json.JsonWriter' threw an exception.
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextWriter..ctor (System.IO.TextWriter textWriter) (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObjectInternal (System.Object value, System.Type type, Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer jsonSerializer) (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject (System.Object value, System.Type type, Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializerSettings settings) (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject (System.Object value) (at <607e95f78559498690f968784b884761>:0)
	HelloKSC.HelloKerbal+<>c.<Start>b__0_0 (CelestialBody body) (at <2bce455990724ead90e1b3b0bf15f9b8>:0)
	System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T].ForEach (System.Action`1[T] action) (at <9577ac7a62ef43179789031239ba8798>:0)
	HelloKSC.HelloKerbal.Start () (at <2bce455990724ead90e1b3b0bf15f9b8>:0)

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by DevOverlord
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[HebaruSan]

The important part of that error is:

5 hours ago, DevOverlord said:

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Serialization

I think that's because System.Runtime.Serialization.dll isn't included in the DLLs that come with the game:

Try copying it  to your mod's folder in GameData. It's probably already in one of your system folders.