Question regarding exporting an asset in C++ to C#

[jdion.simleader]

I'm experimenting with the engine and would like to be able to use the Hight Level Vehicle asset in a C# project, but it doesn't appear when I drag the folder into the project. I thought I read that we had the possibility of using C++ classes in a C# project. Is it possible to transfer the High level Vehicle asset into a C# project or do you have to program it from scratch in C#?

[silent]

Hello!

High-Level vehicle sample is written with C++, so you can't simply copy it's files into C#-based project. Indeed, you can call C++ code from C#, but it's not a trivial process and you need to do modifications to the initial C++ codebase, which may be a quite hard task (and there is no guarantees that it will work for this project specifically).

Since you have access to the С++ source code you can try to port it to C#.

Thanks!

 

[jdion.simleader]

When we download the High Level vehicle asset, the scripts are only in .prop and when I open them with an IDE, they are xml. Is it possible to have access to the C++ code in the asset?

 

So, if I understand correctly, the asset high level vehicle is simply available in C++ projects? So what's the point of selling the machine as supporting both languages if most of the important assets are only in C++ and can only be used in C++ projects?

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When we download the High Level vehicle asset, the scripts are only in .prop and when I open them with an IDE, they are xml. Is it possible to have access to the C++ code in the asset?

Editor is not showing assets outside of the data directory. The source code is available in <DEMO>/source directory. When you do Copy as project sources are also being copied into the <Project>/source directory. In order to build and run this project you need to have installed Visual Studio 2015 with C++ build tools and after that you can safely open <Project>/source/<project>.vcxproj and build.

 

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So, if I understand correctly, the asset high level vehicle is simply available in C++ projects? 

Yes, at the moment High-level Vehicle sample is available for C++ only, but we are considering to port it or provide an API to make it compatible with C# out of the box. So far we didn't find a proper way of doing this, so we are still in research phase.

 

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So what's the point of selling the machine as supporting both languages if most of the important assets are only in C++ and can only be used in C++ projects?

Currently, the majority of our simulation industry customers are developing their products using C++. As a result, all of the simulation samples provided are naturally based on C++. However, the situation is changing rapidly, and we hope to eventually provide more C# API samples to our customers as well.

Thanks!