Space Engineers Scripting

Here are the steps to set up Visual Studio Code for Space Engineers ingame script development.

This will provide an environment where Autocompletion / Intellisense works for the Space Engineers API.

Setup

• I'll assume you already have SE installed!
• Install Visual Studio Code (VSC)
• Install the following VSC Extensions:
  • c# extension in VSC (OmniSharp)
  • NuGet Package manager VSC Extension
• install .net cli tools / SDK (you may not need those)
• install net framework dev-pack 4.6.1
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49978
• Then clone this repository.

Configuration and operation

• If you have a non-standard SE location, change SpaceEngineers.csproj to link to your location
• 'open folder' (this folder) from VSC.
• You can use the 'script_manager.sh' if you have WSL/Linux installed. It creates new files and pushes/pulls scripts from your SE Folder.
  • Otherwise you will have to do it manually or re-create the script for batch/powershell. (I won't) To create a new Script manually copy the default folder into the Scripts folder and rename it.

  DO NOT rename the script itself!

  • Secondly you need to change the namespace of the script, otherwise it will conflict with the default.
• Something you always have to do manually is to add your Script to the SEScripts.csproj file. There is a section with a list of <Compile Include="Scripts/[Script_Name].cs />. Add your Script to those. Omnisharp will only provide Code completion and Intellisense when this Include was added.
• Put your code changes between the region tags (see comment in template)

Credit to https://github.com/mrdaemon for the working .csproj file.