agosch / skse_plugin_example

A simple base for Skyrim SKSE plugins.

Skyrim SKSE plugin example

This has been adapted from this example. It has a simple build script to simplify the build process. It's also been tidied up a bit, and updated to use Visual Studio 2017.

Requirements

• Skyrim
  • The Creation Kit
• Python 3.6 for the build script
• Visual Studio 2017
  • "VC++ 2017 version 15.8 v14.15 latest v141 tools"
  • "Windows Universal CRT SDK"

Getting Started

Ignore the common and skse directories, they are included from SKSE and are required for the plugin to compile. The directory of interest for your plugin is plugin.

Paths relevant to the build script are stored in build.ini, you may need to edit these, particularly if you're not installing with Steam on a 64-bit machine.

To compile, run:

python build.py

This will compile the plugin and any Papyrus scripts in the plugin\scripts directory to the Debug directory. When you have finished developing and are ready to compile a release version, run the following:

python build.py --release

This will compile to the Release directory. You can then use the following to install the compiled plugin and scripts to your Skyrim installation's directory:

python build.py install

Or:

python build.py install --release

From here follow this guide.