OHM Orbiter Claude Devkit 2026-07-06

[nbcfrosty]

nbcfrosty submitted a new addon:

Orbiter Claude Devkit - Develop for Orbiter using Claude

A complete toolkit for developing Orbiter vessels, plugins, virtual cockpits, and city skylines using Claude Code (or any AI coding assistant) as your engineering partner.

This is everything I learned the hard way building real Orbiter projects — documented, organized, and packaged so you don't repeat the same mistakes.

What's in the box

12 guide docs covering the full development lifecycle:

• Dev environment setup (VS2022, CMake, ATL, DirectX SDK)
• Building Orbiter from source...

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[nbcfrosty]

Hey all. I have been having great luck with using deepseek API for orbiter development using Claude Code. You can sign up for the API here: https://platform.deepseek.com
and get the API key. $5 goes A LONG way: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

For $5 you could be vibing for days. So I urge people to try it .

The steps in a nutshell:

1. Install Claude Code: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart
2. Sign up on deepseek, get API key.
3. Launch Claude Code using DeepSeek base URL and API key

This addon contains scripts to install claude code, and to launch it using deepseek. You'll need to edit the launch bat/sh file (depending on your OS)



And add the deepseek API key.

Although I use deepseek here as an example, you can use any other AI provider here, provided they expose an anthropic format endpoint.

Best of luck. It's been amazing experimenting with Orbiter without having to touch C++ or visual studio!

 

[Boxx]

nbcfrosty submitted a new addon:

Orbiter Claude Devkit - Develop for Orbiter using Claude

Thank you for sharing your lessons learned! Just a technical question: since you provide CMAKE instructions, is VS2022 still mandatory? (motivation: trying to remove VS2019 from my framework, I would prefer a VS Code setup instead of upgrading to VS2022 - even if community - I wish VS Code is more simple)

 

[nbcfrosty]

It’s not mandatory. Use w/e version of visual studio you want. Ai will figure it out or let you know if you need a different version.