A SDK perhaps in the not so far future?

[stevebone]

Maybe it is a bit too early for this but it does not hurt to ask:

Do you, the developers, plan to release a SKD or something sometime in the future after the game release?

I know the game is not out yet but it would be nice to hear if Colossal plans something like this. I mean, some documentation on the things we can do or not do with the game, limitations by the engine, functions used in the scripts and perhaps some examples to give people, willing to mod, a heads up in the right direction.

As stated, future dlc will be released but will be focused on increasing the depth of the game with more functionality and new cool features while the community can expand the content.

Just my 2 cents. Waiting opinions on this.

 

[co_martsu]

We love to see people modding the game and making it their own, but unfortunately we don't have plans for a SDK. I'm afraid we have so many other things at hand at the moment that you'll have to rely on the community to come up with this. And I know there are so many capable guys out there that you'll be getting the answers from them sooner than from us

 

[Poro-]

It seems that Colossal has not tried to "hide" configurations etc like some other game devs try to do. This gives good chances for modders to get interested.

 

[stevebone]

thats true. at least we have that. Thanks for the answer co_martsu! I even think there was going to be or maybe will be a newspaper in game? Only that in the beta it is not used. And am not talking about the advertising thing. It seems some things were just left out.

 

[Ne0Que]

It seems that Colossal has not tried to "hide" configurations etc like some other game devs try to do. This gives good chances for modders to get interested.

In fact, most of the source code is available. I haven't seen any simulation engine scripts yet, but maybe i didn't look in the right files .
My guess is that the GSystem.dll is the 'game engine' itself.
It holds OpenGL stuff to open the main (game) window and stuff like that i think.
I found out that some global constants are hardcoded in either the exe file as in the dll file. I talk about BUS, METRO and TRAM constants.. they are hardcoded.

 

[stevebone]

i am thinking that we could write our own functions with the scripting system. seems very flexible. I have no idea what is hardcoded and what not but i am experimenting

 

[Ne0Que]

For instance, if we want to add new types of transportation (a trolley bus) .. then we have to register it inside the game engine. After that, we are able to script the thing. But as we can not register in dll files... because it is compiled.. we can not make such addons.

 

[stevebone]

are you sure? i saw buttons and build conditions are handled in the scripts as well as objects loading including vehicles for the player.

Edit: Here i am again! Can we at least have some info about models format and if we can add new ones for the map editor? any little information would be highly appreciated