PapyrusDotNet - Good bye Papyrus, Hello C#!

[zerratar]

Hello there everyone!

As a first time poster, I would like to introduce myself a bit!

My name is Karl, go by the nick Zerratar =) I'm a System Developer from sweden, with the passion of creating lots of crazy stuff.
Which ends up for me being here today.

For the last 3 weeks I've been working on a experimental tool for Converting C# into Papyrus.

Basically, making it possible for anyone to write their scripts using C#, compile it using Visual Studio or any other IDE that supports C# (MonoDevelop or SharpDevelop could be a few of those).
And then generate a Papyrus Assembly Code file, that can later be Compiled/ Assembled using CreationKit!

I noticed since the start the lack of a good script editor for Papyrus and it buggered me, well not too much since in the end. I've actually never once created a complete Papyrus script.
I can't be blamed though, I just recently started looking up on how Papyrus works!

The project is called PapyrusDotNet, I've uploaded it to GitHub for everyone to use! Open Source that is and with a few guidelines and what else that could be needed.

I've written a more extensive readme and information about the project there aswell.

 

http://github.com/zerratar/PapyrusDotNet

 

I hope this has waken up some interest as I will continue to work on this project on my spare time.
For now, peace out!

/ Zerratar

[ragnaroklucifer]

maybe a SKSE plugin can import assemblies functions for the scripts to call

 

umm I don't know

[meh321]

I agree with ragnaroklucifer better would be if you made SKSE import the assemblies and use as native papyrus function implementations so you could use real C# code to write papyrus scripts. It would be faster and easy to use.

 

Example in papyrus psc file:

 

scriptname MyNetCode

 

int function ParseInt(string x) global native

 

and in C#:

 

int ParseInt(string x)

{

int r;

if(int.TryParse(x, out r))

return r;

return 0;

}

 

Then load this DLL with SKSE and register this implementation to MyNetCode.ParseInt function.

 

It's already possible to write papyrus functions in C++ so why not C#. :)

[zerratar]

Thank you for yor replies. And yes, i am currently exploring that idea already. To create a skse plugin to give more functionality/ enable the use of the .net framework :) it is planned for the future ;)