dreamycecil/se1-exampleentitieslib

A clean library base for your own entities based on Serious Sam SDK for modern Visual Studios instead of Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.

Example Entities Library

This is a clean library base for your own Serious Sam entities based on Serious Engine 1 Mod SDK.

This example library contains an entity that can display information about all players. The project files were created for Visual Studio 2010 and newer.

Notes

• If you want to create other entity packs, you can base them off renamed CustomEntities project and add them to EntitiesLib.sln instead of cloning the entire repository again.
• If you want your entities to depend on vanilla ones, you have to include headers from EntitiesV and optional GameV directories into your code to link vanilla libaries.
  • You can see this dependency implementation in the example project. Look for the VANILLA_ENTITIES macro switch.
• Alternatively, you can freely move CustomEntites folder into the mod SDK and build entity packs with your mod.

Building

To compile the library, you'll need to use a compiler from Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.

Full guide: https://github.com/DreamyCecil/SE1-ModSDK#building

Running

Once the project is compiled, the library (e.g. CustomEntitiesMP.dll) is automatically placed into the Bin folder one level above the sources folder (e.g C:/SeriousSam/Bin if the sources are in C:/SeriousSam/Sources).

To change the path where to copy the library (if you wish to put sources separately from the game), consider changing the path in the post-build step (Project properties -> Build Events -> Post-Build Step -> Command Line).

How to use your new entities in the game

1. Copy the compiled library into the Bin folder (e.g. C:/SeriousSam/Bin).
2. Create a ECL (Entity Class Link) file with your entity in it. Example can be found at Classes/ExampleEntity.ecl.
3. Add your class file into the virtual tree in Serious Editor.

And then you'll be able to use your entity just like any other entity.

License

Just like Croteam's Serious Engine 1.10 source code, Serious Sam SDK is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file).