Wiremod for S&box

Current status

Very early WIP (as is S&box itself).

• Wiring Tool is equivalent to G-Wiremod's non-Adv version, with basic Debugger and Gate spawning functionalities too
• Outputs: Buttons, GPS, Gyroscope, and a Wire Keyboard (effectively a Pod Controller with a builtin vehicle)
• Inputs: Thrusters, Lights, Constraint Controllers, HardLight Bridge
• Gates: the basic arithmetic/logic/constant

Message Nebual on Discord with any questions about contributing! See todos for ideas.

Setup

S&box is currently focused around 'Gamemodes', not modular addons, however [A]lex is working on a modular Gamemode framework which might work for us. We also use SandboxPlus, an extension of FP's Sandbox gamemode, modified to be more extendable.
Thus, grabbing the latest Github Release with that already setup is easiest.

Using the latest Github Release

1. Download it to steamapps/common/sbox/workspace/
2. cd workspace/modules/wirebox && git pull
3. cd workspace/ && .\watcher.ps1 wirebox -build

Building from scratch

1. cd steamapps/common/sbox/
2. git clone https://github.com/Ceveos/minimal-extended.git workspace && cd workspace
3. .\watcher.ps1 -create, say yes to prompt to download SandboxPlus
4. git clone https://github.com/wiremod/wirebox.git modules/wirebox
5. .\watcher.ps1 wirebox -build

The watcher script will combine all modules/* (so you can throw extra mods there), and output a new "gamemode" into steamapps/sbox/addons/wirebox/, where S&Box is looking for it.

Developing

Often the base Sandbox gamemode isn't extendable enough; direct PR's to enhance flexibility to SandboxPlus, which is wire-agnostic, but obviously quite wire-friendly :D

Hotreloading is neat, and generally works well - limitations include:

• seems a bit less reliable for non-host players, though often works
• some Model properties don't reload, such as Prop breakability
• You'll need ./watcher.ps1 wirebox running to copy changes from workspace/modules/* to sbox/addons/wirebox (the output gamemode); this lets us keep git repos separate while merging together assets from multiple modules into their respective top-level folders in the resulting gamemde.