General Question Developing modules for Orbiter eli5

[QueNtHBIdANGO]

Hi All,

I did search the forum and googled a lot but I'm still confused.

Can someone ELI5 me and maybe point me to some tutorials to create a spacecraft and multifunctional screens?

To add a new spacecraft to Orbiter I have to create its 3D mesh and add it to Meshes folder.
Modules are in Modules folder and are written in C++?

Is there a tutorial for writing modules?

QueNtHBIdANGO

 

[Thunder Chicken]

The best starting resource for the code are the API_Guide.pdf and API_Reference.pdf found in the Orbiter/OrbiterSDK/doc folder. There are also code samples provided in Orbiter/OrbiterSDK/samples that you can look at and try to compile.

You'll have to set up a Virtual Studio environment to write and compile the code, but there you have to set various linker and compiler settings and include necessary Orbiter libraries to do so. There are videos out there on how to do this, but I don't have links to them. Hopefully someone will swing in and steer you to one.

 

[QueNtHBIdANGO]

Thank you, that's what I was looking for.