Custom Plugins Feature?

Brian

I'm curious when the custom plugins documentation will become available. 

Smitemeister

Hi, when the plug-in API is released (after the kickstarter) it will contain tutorials and documentation on each plug-in.

For general info and functions of the currently available plug-ins we still need to set up a proper wiki... so much to do!  

Brian

Will WebRequest or HttpClient be available? Excited about the prospects of this but just want a grasp of how powerful this custom plugin feature will be.

xavi

We still haven't decided on the system sandbox (a limit on what plugins are allowed to do for security reasons), so for know anything that can be done in c# or any other .NET language (which is pretty much anything really, including web requests) can be done.

That being said, some knowledge of the .NET framework and any of its languages will be required, plus some knowledge of WPF if the plugin wants to tweak the UI itself.

We are trying to make all the skirmish features into plugins (or at least as many as possible) so it is always possible to replace a core feature (such as for example the dice roller) for a possible 3rd-party one that you think might fit better on your current game.

Like Chris said soon we will set up a WIKI with some documentation on Skirmish itself plus a beta API documentation so we can get feedback before the API is finalized.