General Question Devoloping Addons

[AtlantisOnline]

Hello Everyone. I have been playing orbiter for awhile and I thought I would try to devop some addons. Unfortunatly I am completely new to any of this and I was wondering if you guys could help me out. aka were to start what software I might need ect. Thank You AtlantisOnline

 

[Kaito]

Searching the forums would be beneficial.
What type of addon do you want? Ships? MFD? Planets?

 

[Woo482]

You'll probably want to take a look at the Orbiter SDK found on the Orbiter homepage and Spacecraft3 (Found here) unless you want to code your own addons using C++.

 

[AtlantisOnline]

I did search the forums but perhaps a couple of links to useful threads would be helpful. I was thinking of making spaceships but perhaps I might try a mfd.

 

[Bj]

I did search the forums but perhaps a couple of links to useful threads would be helpful. I was thinking of making spaceships but perhaps I might try a mfd.

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/tutorials.php -bottom of the page;

Tutorials for Addon Developers

• Tutorial: How to create surface bases The entry point to the world of developing addons for newbies.
• MFD Wizard for Visual Studio This is a tool to allow the simple creation of MFDs in Visual Studio.
• Surface base wizard 1.3b Manual contains concepts on how to create surface tiles. You may also use it with this tool Surface Tile calculator v5.0a
• Tutorial: How to make scenarios for Orbiter v1.5 Concepts that will help you so you can edit or create scenarios. You may want to use it these tools that provide code examples for different vessels
• Vessel code generator 1.0
• Shuttle fleet scenario generator v1.5c
• Big space plane 4.0 scenario generator 1.1
• Merlin 1.2 code scenario generator
• Anim8or tutorial: How to model a plane Tutorial for newbies on 3D modelling
• Anim8or tutorial: How to model a rocket (Lesson 2) Tutorial for newbies on 3D modelling
• Anim8or tutorial: How to make a building (Lesson 3)) Tutorial for newbies on 3D modelling
• Mesh Wizard 1.9d Manual contains concepts on .MSH (Orbiter), .AN8 (Anim8tor) and .OBJ (Wavefront) format for 3D objects.
• Tutorial: Vectors for dummies Concepts that helps you to understand vectors.
• Tutorial: How to use Spacecraft.dll (Lesson 1) This will teach you how to create a space station module (this is an exercise)
• Tutorial: How to use Spacecraft.dll parameters This is an explanation of commands used to create vessels using Vinka's Spacecraft.dll
• Tutorial: How to make music for Orbiter This will familiarize you with tools to make music

Also helpful;
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8679

Edit:
Hows your coding experience?
Easiest way to getting a ship in the air is with Vinka's Spacecraft3.DLL/Spacecraft2.DLL which is included in the tutorial list.


The other way is by making your own .dll complimented with the nessasary configs and other files needed for a spacecraft. As of yet

You follow;
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Free_Compiler_Setup

for help getting your compiler setup, but other than that, you can look at the ShuttlePB or other samples included in the SDK to get you rolling on writing your own .dll

 

[orb]

And there's also an article: Add-on Development Resources.

 

[AtlantisOnline]

Thanks I will check them out