Orbiter Skybolt Client

A 3d graphics client plugin for the Orbiter space flight simulator which allows Orbiter to render with the Skybolt engine.

This project is in early development and many Orbiter graphics features are not yet supported.

Build

Using conan

Conan is a C++ package manager which makes builds easier. Currently, the build requires conan version 1.x. We plan to upgrade to 2.x in the future. If you do not already have conan 1.x installed, run pip install conan==1.64.1 to install using pip.

Build with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/piraxus/Skybolt
git -C Skybolt checkout v1.4.1
conan export Skybolt

git clone https://github.com/Piraxus/OrbiterSkyboltClient
conan install OrbiterSkyboltClient --install-folder OrbiterSkyboltClientBuild --build=missing
conan build OrbiterSkyboltClient --build-folder OrbiterSkyboltClientBuild

The plugin is built to OrbiterSkyboltClientBuild/bin/Release/OrbiterSkyboltClient.dll.

Install

1. Copy OrbiterSkyboltClient.dll to <Orbiter repo>/Modules/Plugin
2. Copy <Skybolt repo>/Assets/Core to <Orbiter repo>/Modules/Plugin/OrbiterSkyboltClient/Assets/Core
3. cd to the SkyboltOrbiterClient repository root and run dvc pull to fetch the remote binary assets (images etc required at runtime). If you do not already have DVC installed, first run pip install dvc[s3] to install with pip
4. Copy all folders under <SkyboltOrbiterClient repo>/Assets to <Orbiter repo>/Modules/Plugin/OrbiterSkyboltClient/Assets

Contact

Skybolt and the Orbiter Skybolt Client created and maintained by Matthew Reid. To submit a bug report, please raise an issue on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the License.txt file for details.