9. Transcript of Keen Software Modding Tutorial

Mareks Tutorial youtube transcribed in summary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh1bNfRLPw YouTube™ Video: Space Engineers - How to setup Visual Studio and create a simple mod Views: 33,378 This is a short tutorial that shows how to create a simple mod by using the API tools released in the last update 01.048.

install web edition of visual studio 2012 Folder layout %appdata% -> space engineers -> mods -> modname -> data -> scripts

new project

Project type c#

Type class library

location (script folder)

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace TestScript1

{

public class Class1

{

}

}

TestScript -> properties -> assemblyinfo.cs -> delete it!

References -> properties -> references (rightclick add reference)

Game folder -> bin ->

Sandbox.Common.dll

Sandbox.Game.dll

VRage.Common.dll

VRage.Library.dll

VRage.Math.dll

adds:

using Sandbox.Common;

using Sandbox.Common.Components;

using Sandbox.Common.ObjectBuilders;

using Sandbox.Common.Definitions;

using Sandbox.Engine;

using Sandbox.Game;

using Sandbox.ModAPI;

using Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame;

using Sandbox.ModAPI.Interface;

Save project?

Check scripts folder remove bin/obj/properties

//Alters

namespace TestScript1

{

[MyEntityComponentDescriptor(typeof(MyObjectBuilder_SensorBlock))] public class Class1 : MyGameLogicComponent

{

//Creates list:

public override void Close() {}

public override void Init(MyObjectBuilder_EntityBase objectBuilder) {}

public override void MarkforClose() {}

public override void UpdateAfterSimulation() {}

public override void UpdateAfterSimulation10() {}

public override void UpdateAfterSimulation100() {}

public override void UpdateBeforeSimulation() {}

public override void UpdateBeforeSimulation10() {}

public override void UpdateBeforeSimulation100() {}

public override void UpdateOnceBeforeFrame() {} } }