ent plugin system
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grimdoomer
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ent plugin system
how do you make an ent pugin system i have plugins in the application folder i have a button for it i just dont know how to actully set it up. ive looked in entity a bit but can figure it out.
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Aumaan Anubis wrote:Grimdoomer. The first person ever to mod Halo 2 Vista.
.ent is just a made up extension, it's origins being obvious. All it is inside is just an XML structure, which can be read from in C# using the XmlTextReader, I think it's called.
Anyway I just read the plug-in into a list, in which each item represents an element of the plug-in. For example a float in the plug-in, is parsed to the 'FloatNode' class, which in turn is based off of the 'BaseNode' class, making it compatible with my list, initialised as 'List<BaseNode>'.
The BaseNode class also contains a 'StructNode' member, which keeps track of which element is part of which reflexive. With base values obviously leaving this null.
Once 'tis all loaded into a list: I have another method that loops through them and calls their 'CreateControls' method, and add the resulting controls to my other list, this one for controls. Eventually I have the visual representation of the plug-in, which I then put on screen.
It's not really that hard to do, to be honest. Lengthy process though.
Anyway I just read the plug-in into a list, in which each item represents an element of the plug-in. For example a float in the plug-in, is parsed to the 'FloatNode' class, which in turn is based off of the 'BaseNode' class, making it compatible with my list, initialised as 'List<BaseNode>'.
The BaseNode class also contains a 'StructNode' member, which keeps track of which element is part of which reflexive. With base values obviously leaving this null.
Once 'tis all loaded into a list: I have another method that loops through them and calls their 'CreateControls' method, and add the resulting controls to my other list, this one for controls. Eventually I have the visual representation of the plug-in, which I then put on screen.
It's not really that hard to do, to be honest. Lengthy process though.
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