neosecundus / sescripts

Base Project for Space Engineers in-game script development. Some scripts included.

Space Engineers Scripting

Here are the steps to set up Visual Studio Code for Space Engineers ingame script development.

This will provide an environment where Autocompletion / Intellisense works for the Space Engineers API.

Setup

• I'll assume you already have SE installed!
• Install Visual Studio Code (VSC)
• Install the following VSC Extensions:
  • c# extension in VSC (OmniSharp)
  • NuGet Package manager VSC Extension
• install .net cli tools / SDK (you may not need those)
• install net framework dev-pack 4.6.1
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49978
• Then clone this repository.

Configuration and operation

• If you have a non-standard SE location, change SpaceEngineers.csproj to link to your location
• 'open folder' (this folder) from VSC.
• You can use the 'script_manager.sh' if you have WSL/Linux installed. It creates new files and pushes/pulls scripts from your SE Folder.
  • Otherwise you will have to do it manually or re-create the script for batch/powershell. (I won't) To create a new Script manually copy the default folder into the Scripts folder and rename it.

  DO NOT rename the script itself!

  • Secondly you need to change the namespace of the script, otherwise it will conflict with the default.
• Something you always have to do manually is to add your Script to the SEScripts.csproj file. There is a section with a list of <Compile Include="Scripts/[Script_Name].cs />. Add your Script to those. Omnisharp will only provide Code completion and Intellisense when this Include was added.
• Put your code changes between the region tags (see comment in template)

Credit to https://github.com/mrdaemon for the working .csproj file.