SDK, API, or otherwise Plugin development

[eps_coder]

Hello,

I just downloaded the sandbox and it's pretty amazing.  I'm a developer and I wanted to find out if I could make my own customizations/automations via an api, sdk, or other plugin architecture. I can't seem to locate anything on the subject.

Thanks!

[Greenleaf]

There is no support for that right now.

[eps_coder]

That is disappointing...

Any plans for this in the future?

[Greenleaf]

That is disappointing...

Any plans for this in the future?

It is something we are considering, but it is still unclear how we would go about it, and it is not on any immediate todo lists.


How would you envision it working for it to be useful?

[eps_coder]

Well I would imaging a couple scenarios immediately that I could make use of as a developer.

The big one would be adding,editing,deleting objects to a simulation via code and setting simulation parameters programmatically.


Another would be writing custom even handlers to do things on say a planetary collision event, an objects settings change, etc. 



Adding custom rendering handlers...so I could add custom rendering piece of code that could draw say disk with some opacity that trails behind a planet or objects orbit on it's orbital plane to more clearly show it's plane of orbit in the simulation, (for example).

The basic ability to do those things for starters would open up a whole bunch of possibilities.