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sschoener / cities-skylines-detour

Proof of concept for a simple detour for functions in Cities: Skylines (or more generally: Unity 5 x64 on Windows.)
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Are you guys aware of Harmony? #3

Closed FluffierThanThou closed 5 years ago

FluffierThanThou commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony was created for the RimWorld modding community, to replace the detour library/libraries in use there (which in turn were inspired by @sschoener's original code.)

It's a general purpose Mono (and now also .NET) patching library, which allows pre- and postfixing methods, leaving the original code intact. The prefix can be set up to not execute the original code, in essence acting like a detour.

It's also got an extremely powerful IL transpiling mechanic, which allows targeted replacement of individual instructions in the target method.

It's completely transformed the RimWorld modding scene - and could potentially do the same for C:S.

sschoener commented 7 years ago

Hi,

it's about time this thing here can finally die and rest in peace :D I wasn't aware of it, and I am glad that someone finally picked the ball up and solved this properly. My detour-library is a hack, was never intended to be more than that, and I cannot really advise anyone to use it. But it spawned good, made games more moddable, and ultimately made the world a better place, I guess -- so, mission accomplished!

Thanks for the link, I'll put it in the ReadMe file, so people can transition over to that library.

Best, Sebastian

pardeike commented 7 years ago

Thanks for linking to Harmony. If you still have influence and contact to the CitySkyline community you could spread the word there about Harmony.

pardeike commented 7 years ago

Also ppl really need to upvote my answer about patching on stackoverflow. The answer with the most answers is really old.