SDK Overview

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ModBuddy

ModBuddy is an IDE powered by Visual Studio.

It gives us an environment and provides a useful set of tools to get up and running quickly with project blueprints.

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Steam Workshop Uploader

TBC...

FireTuner

The FireTuner/LiveTuner is a companion application that we run alongside CIV VI. Which provides the following:

  • Lua console where you can execute Lua code in the running game.
  • Panels these panels are collections of views like tables, lists, drop downs, inputs etc that are backed by Lua code.

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Documentation

While the documentation is not strictly a tool, it is very interesting, it links to a static HTML page which contains documentation on the following topics

  • Content Creation
  • FireFX
  • Forge UI
  • Forge UI\Controls
  • Modding
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