Crucible is a lightweight and high-performance filesystem management tool for Star Citizen that provides a single user interface experience for working with all of the files inside of a P4K file and the local filesystem. The goal of Crucible is to provide a foundation to share code that all plugins require universally such as filesystem, database, versioning, and encryption.
- Performance is the most important tool of all and with high core count processors taking advantage of that horsepower is key.
- Crucible is a mixture of C# and C++ using the C++/CLI framework.
- Almost everything is a plugin.
- Allows us to support filetypes across different versions of the game using separate plugins.
- Allows multiple plugins to support the same file.
- Lots of smaller projects that many developers can work on rather than a single mega tool.
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- Distributed plugins must be a single binary that is placed in the
pluginsdirectory of Crucible. (Take a look at Fody Costura) - Distributed plugins may contain extra dependencies and external files which must be stored in a resources folder called
<plugin>_Resources. - If your plugin sucks and you don't provide any kind of support for it, it will be removed from the community.
- Do not thread block the call back made to
RegisterFileUIfor extended periods of time. You should implement asynchronous multithread code and provide loading UI for your plugin. - Do not crash Crucible ever. Badly behaving plugins that do not catch their errors will potentially be disabled in future releases
- Do not embed binaries that conflict with Crucible's binaries.
- All plugins are considered derivative works and must share a compatible licence.