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Space Station 14 is heavily in development, and some systems you may want to touch are extreme oldcode, if you are a new contributor I HIGHLY do not recommend refactoring or touching C# systems, besides, if you just want to add new plushies; you can do that without C#! Refer to YML and You

Welcome to the world of Space Station 14 coding, this is an amateurish guide that you really shouldn't refer to but should be good enough to explain the basics.

Relative to commit b73d188e67f7591a6b5985c836dad2370fd252e9. Notify eclips_e#0001 on Discord if outdated.

Guide to-do list

thing what status
Overview A simple overview explaining how SS14 code works Todo
Prototypes A simple explanation on how prototypes work and how to define them Todo
Fluent & Localization HOW DO LOCALIZE Todo
Sprites RSI, sprites and how to sprite Todo
Coder Sprites What they are and how to not make them Todo
ECS In Depth More indepth explanation for ECS Todo
Client, Shared, Server What are the differences, why are they seperate? Why is my leg cut off? Todo
Networking WOOOOOO NETWORKING!!!!!! Todo

Overview

So essentially, SS14 is not written in DM but instead in C# and YAML.

Prototypes

Prototypes are what make up most of SS14's codebase (not really) and can be found in the Resources/Prototypes directory.

Prototypes are defined as .yml files and there are multiple types of Prototypes, with entity being the most basic.

YML and You

Skip ahead if you already know the basics of YML.

YAML is as simple as peanut jelly and butter. This is some sample YAML syntax.












key: value
list:
  - value
  - value2
  - another_list:
    - "a string"
    - 10
    - 10.23
    - type: awesome
      contains: old code
      note: "don't open"

Think of YAML as JSON but less yucky and more human friendly to write in (YAML have comments, JSON doesn't, and generally looks nicer)

Entities

Localization

Localization is done in a neat little language called Fluent.

Networking

This isn't finished and is to be written

REAL footage of the client and server interacting:

Created with Raphaël 2.2.0ClientClientServerServerI'd like to join!300ms client->serverReceived messageDoing authentication checksAll valid authenticationSure thing, buddy!
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