Setting up plug-in development environment.

[Beale]

Hi.

I am really at a brick wall when trying to start out plug-in development.

Though there's plenty of general tutorials, I can't find anything on how to set up Visual Studio 2010 to create plugins, for example how to use the Unity Namespace and inherit the stock game classes.

I've barely touched coding since college, so this is all a bit foggy in my mind.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks...

[Padishar]

Could someone point me in the right direction?

It's that way ---->

More seriously, change the .NET Framework option to 3.5 and create your "Class library" project. Then you should be able to find a "References..." menu option (probably right click the project in the solution explorer) which will allow you to add the required assemblies from an install of KSP. You need to add KSP_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.dll for the Unity stuff and KSP_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll for the KSP stuff. (You will also need KSP_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll if you want to do some things, e.g. use the stock AppLauncher/toolbar thing).

Beyond that, I would recommend getting the source to a few simple plugins and see how they do what they do and also look for any tutorial type threads in this sub-forum...

[Beale]

It's that way ---->

More seriously, change the .NET Framework option to 3.5 and create your "Class library" project. Then you should be able to find a "References..." menu option (probably right click the project in the solution explorer) which will allow you to add the required assemblies from an install of KSP. You need to add KSP_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.dll for the Unity stuff and KSP_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll for the KSP stuff. (You will also need KSP_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll if you want to do some things, e.g. use the stock AppLauncher/toolbar thing).

Beyond that, I would recommend getting the source to a few simple plugins and see how they do what they do and also look for any tutorial type threads in this sub-forum...

Seems to be all up and running! Thanks!

I can reference UnityEngine things after importing it.

Edited September 2, 2014 by Beale

[Beale]

Sorry to double post.

-Ignore, Fixed-

Edited September 2, 2014 by Beale

[NathanKell]

Whatcha working on?

[Beale]

Whatcha working on?

A very basic resource mining system