Straight to the point. When I was looking into modding this game I ran into a lot of issues with getting everything to come together correctly. Manually having to put all the stuff together, and not sure where to put some stuff. I also was frustrated by the difficulty of testing the code I was writing. I hope that this tool will help future modders save some sanity, and generally just have more time to put into their mod.
I make no promises this is exactly right, I have 0.5 mods for this game under my belt. I do plan to migrate this to Github, were those more experienced can more easily provide usable feedback.
Attached is a mod template, Including:
- A Gradle build file, primed to build and bundle your mod into a zip file. (build/distributions/)
- One line csv files, and empty json files are excluded from packaging, so only the files you modify will make into the bundle
- The Starsector API included as a locally loaded dependency (Can remove if it violates licenses)
- The additional dependencies used, loaded via Maven Central
- Test dependencies, including a small library I wrote called SectorUnit. (It runs on top of Mockito and Hamcrest. Usage Example included libs/test/SectorUnit.jar$MockedGlobalTest)
- A Mod Report generated during the build, listing what files were included (Found build/modReport.log)
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