Help. Guide for make a SFSE plugin in C++

[Javapower77]

Hi everyone!

I just wonder if someone had some guide (link, videos, anything) to start making plugins for Starfield.

I need to understand also the folder/file structure and the dependency to build a project in Visual Studio. I saw many examples, but none are complete enough. Specially regarding the version that builds for the same version of current SF build number.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers

[Evangela]

None exists for the C language.

[Javapower77]

yeah, my mistake. I meant C++. sorry

[LarannKiar]

This should help you set up the plugin environment. (It was made for SKSE but the process is very similar for F4SE and SFSE too).

[Javapower77]

So thanks again for being so gentle to share your help. I will certainly go through this video and try to make my first approach.

By the way, are there any GitHub repo where I can find the references to libraries that needs the main plugin in Starfield. I will also browse the nexusmod page to find SFSE plugins to see if someone is sharing the source code.

Thanks a lot!!!

[LarannKiar]

SFSE alone is actually enough to build plugins. Other libraries are optional.

CommonLib was designed especially to help with plugin development and to achieve address independence. (While address independence can be achieved without the CommonLib by pattern scanning, when you locate the target code in the EXE at runtime, the CommonLib is typically more convenient).

Some use DKUtils (I personally don't) for its useful utility functions.

Note that not all data structures found in the SFSE header files are up to date and that CommonLib hasn't been updated for months so you'll need to decode some classes first before you could interact with them. Also, depending on the conception of course but usually reverse engineering takes up more time than writing the plugin.