misticos

Simply download rust server, install oxide and add ALL DLLs as a reference. Profit!

I have already copied every single file from my server's RustDedicated_Data\Managed to Oxide.Rust\src\Dependencies\Patched\public\RustDedicated_Data\Managed. How do I add them as a reference? Again, is there a tutorial I can follow step-by-step?

razorfishsl

Firt off  to start with you don't need the  "oxide" source, unless you are developing actual oxide server side API.

if you are developing plugins that USE the "oxide" API, then you jsut need the libraries that are precompiled.
copy those libraries from the server as you appear to have done (stick them in a  handy directory)

you need to make a project....../ solution. (C# class) once done...

on your top bar will see "project"-> edit references.. but its greyed out sometimes....(or not)

so go to "view" and set it to "DESIGN"!!!!, on your left you should have a  view of the WHOLE project, navigate DOWN the project until the menu item is NOT grey..., then select it and a  "edit refrences" will open.

Select ".Net Assembly" and then the "browse" button. to add each library... BUT don't go mad, there are some conflicts  "newtonsoft" for a start

misticos

Simply download rust server, install oxide and add ALL DLLs as a reference. Profit!

See, this is where it doesn't work work me, I just know I did something wrong along the way because there's no "Project/Edit References". Not even greyed out, it's just plainly not there.



And there's nothing about dependencies in the Solution Explorer, either:



I don't even know how to make a solution/project properly (yet I am very willing to learn!) I can clearly see yours looks right, mine doesn't. I don't think I'm working on the right project? I thought opening the *.cproj files included on the github repo would be enough - apparently it's not.

So basically, after cloning the repo - what are the next steps? Did you open the project file or created a new one? Did you import anything? When do all those NuGet extensions come in? Some *.dll files are already present after building the project - do you leave those, do you replace them with Oxide ones?

I can't be the only one asking those very basic questions, and it's even harder for me to grasp how there's nothing about it in the Docs - and if there is, that I failed to find them. I really hate asking for the third time, but is there a tutorial on how to set up plugin dev environment? Anything? All I keep finding is stuff from circa 2015.

Or, alternatively, would someone just share their whole "working" setup of a blank, dummy, "Hello World!" plugin solution as a ZIP file? It's all text-based, so I can easily search-and-replace anything relating to absolute paths to fit my folder structure. I know this is going a terrible solution (Ba-dum-tss), but I'm getting rather desperate. I'm eager to start working on plugins, yet the frustratingly undocumented process that hundreds of modders must've already went through (and it feels like they're holding out on this ancient, secret art) is, frankly, very discouraging.

I appreciate both the offer to be taught AND the assumption my patience is lesser or equal to that of a low-level criminal :)

2. I think we have different versions of the IDE


This is my Welcome screen. Again, nothing about solutions. I figured "solution" is the equivalent to, say, Eclipse's workspace and you can have several projects/folders/structures within it.


Apparently it isn't (anymore?). I've got everything under Project for some reason (different OS-es I'm assuming). There it is! C#, core class library!

So onto step 7:

Now I have an empty project. There's no "View->Design"....



And there's no "Project->Edit references".



So, yeah, we definitely have different versions and I can't shake the feeling you're somehow missing that fact!

And no, I never said I'm discouraged, only that the lack of any sort of learning materials combined, simultaneously, with seemingly mutually exclusive "we want you to learn things" attitude, is discouraging :)

Imagine asking a room full of teachers "What's the title of that textbook we need to read? Or the author? Anything?", getting no response 3 times, and then the teacher is surprised pupils just want the cheat-sheet, synopsis version. "But you won't learn anything from that!", says the teacher. Well, certainly more than from something which clearly doesn't exist! :D

That being said, thank you so much for your help so far! I really hope we can get past 5) :)

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Rust;
using Oxide.Core.Plugins;
using UnityEngine;
using System;

namespace Oxide.Plugins
{
    [Info("hashtest", "mr, Smith", "1.0.0")]
    [Description("A simple tie in")]
    public class hashtest : RustPlugin

    {
        void Init()
        {

            Puts("Hello boys we are in: ");

        }
    }
}​

and a screen to show it compiled on our computer

*NOTE this is not the same as the server, it is possible to get the code compiled on your computer but it wont work on the server due to illegal systems classes & security.:

razorfishsl

why the hell is the images not working......
https://imgur.com/ivrJGrc
https://imgur.com/0uRxGg8

You cannot add a webpage as an image, that's why. ;) Use a direct image URL.

Also, HashTest and HashTest.cs would be proper standard, not hashtest.

AWESOME! Following those steps (started from everything works like a charm now! I had a bit of trouble adding references, I got this message after picking Add references from the context menu:



It's all sorted now though, I followed the instructions at Visual Studio 2017 enterprise can not add reference (Stack Overflow)