Install Coden

Before starting to write you first Coden tool please download and install Coden. Optionally you can verify the installation.

Create a Visual Studio project

Open up Visual Studio (VS2010 used in this example) and choose to create a new Class Library project. C# is used as the language of choice throughout examples, however, you may use any .NET language such as VB, F#, or C++/CLI. Make sure .NET 4.0 is selected as the target framework.

Next step is to write our actual plugin code. To make things simple we reference the Ephere.Modeling and Ephere.Geometry namespaces with the using directive. We then add two assembly-level attributes. Pluggable attributes specifies that the whole assembly will be scanned for plugins (instead of on per-class basis). License attribute needs to be filled in using your licensing credentials obtained from us.

[assembly: Pluggable]
 
namespace MyCompany.MyPlugin
{
	public static class MyPlugin
	{
		public static PolygonMesh3 MyMesh( float parameter )
		{
			return new PolygonMesh3();
		}
	}
}

The namespace convention is important because it is used by some hosts to categorize your plugin. We define our plugin function MyMesh under a static class MyPlugin. Since it returns a PolygonMesh3 object it will be translated as a geometry generator. It will take one floating point parameter.

Once you compile your plugin you need to copy it to Coden's /bin directory. This is the same directory as from where you referenced the Ephere.Modeling.dll assembly.

Test

The final step is to launch your host application and make sure everything is loaded properly!