WireSim- The Scriptable WireMod Simulator

[cpf]

Before you go and complain "WTF U D1Dn't M@k3 a11 teh gatez!" (),

This is in DEVELOPMENT

So, you've probably seen -Orb-'s flash emulator, or that other persons one (no offense, I just forget your name, and it's late at night), and thought "It would be nice if I could customize this," or "I wish I could mod this like real WireMod." Well, I thought that too, and since I have just too much time on my hands (), I thought I would make something to fix that.

So here, I present WireSim, the fully scriptable WireMod emulator for PC.

Here's a nice screenshot of just about all that it can do now:

>Waits for FTP client to upload<


Before you get too disappointed, here's a feature list:

• Lua! Write your chips in it, and instantly see them in action
• Fast-loading
• Fully OOP
• Multiple addon support (almost-but-not-quite like gmod )
• SAVES!
  

So how would you go about getting your hands on this? It's very simple (if you have the latest .net framework):

• Make a new directory somewhere DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP UNLESS YOU WANT FILES IRREVOCABLY DELETED!
• Go download this file:Launcher.exe Clarification for less assumption-prone readers: and place it inside step 1's folder
• Start that file, and wait for the ultra-slick Launcher to retrieve needed files, and start WireSim
  
• Use it! Don't worry if you're internet connection isn't working, the Launcher is fine with that

Some basic instructions are here:
To spawn a chip:
Right click on the canvas, and select the chip from one of the categories in the treeview that pops up.
To wire chips:Once that you have two chips (Button and LED say), right click on the Outputing entity (the button), select the output (the outputs are the ones above the "Edit" item). Then click on the Inputing entity (the LED), and select an input ("A" in this case"). A line should appear between the two. They are now linked. Click the button a few times just for fun :P.
To open the "Console":
Press the ~ key, just like GMod
Customization:
Check out the lua files in the addons/default/lua/ directory for info on making chips, they are fairly self-explanatory if you have a bit of lua knowledge. Right now the reload addons button doesn't work, and saving has been disabled temporarily, so just restart the program.

If the program crashes:
Please click "Send Report" on the dialog that comes up, the encrypted crash report (w/o and personal data, see for yourself in that screen) is then uploaded to my website to I can improve wiresim

FAQ:

• The FPS is low!-The screen only updates when needed, hence the FPS is lower. The FPS is capped at 40FPS though (hence the percentage)
• I can't open saves!-Make a bug report
  
• The wires disapear when I move chips around!-Suck it up, the graphics go down the toilet without that modification.
• IT CRASHES AT STARTUP!!!1!1!- Make sure you have .net3.5 installed. If you already do, please submit a bug report
  

To Be Implemented:

• All the standard WM chips << Getting clooose thanks to people like IEF and blob202
  
• More lua-accessible functions (serial port, web request, draw pixel to screen, etc)
• Anything else that I didn't think of

Home of documentation:
WireSim - Home

Hope you enjoy, please post any suggestions/bug reports here, or at the WireSim Issue Tracker

And -Orb-, please don't kill me because I used your graphics in some places

[dnifan]

Nice. I wanted to make this a long time ago! However, the fact that the crash report is encrypted, freaks me out. Also, what language did you use? I hope not some thing like C# or whatever.

[cpf]

Eeek, c# it is. What's so bad about it?
The crash dump is encrypted to protect your privacy, a "view the contents of the report" button is coming soon

Have you tried it?

[Black Phoenix]

C# is nice, but slow and has "microsoft" tag on it

[cpf]

Slow, maybe, but "microsoft tag" :s

Has anyone actually tried it?

[Black Phoenix]

I completed C# course from M$

[cpf]

Ooops! I've been misreading the title of this thread all along! Its not "WireSim-The Scriptable Wiremod Simulator!" It's "relative merits of microsoft programming languages!"

>sarcasm<

Has anyone tried the program?

[Anticept]

I will check it out later.

EDIT:

lua51.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file cannot be registered.

Same with LuaInterface.dll

[cpf]

If that happens, just try running wiresim. Some people get that error :\

[cpf]

Just committed a new build, a plethora of advantages await the brave SVN Update-r :P

• Fixed major bug with creating gates
• Added tooltips! (use of these in the standard chips to be expanded in the future)
• Added basic arithmetic gates to default set
• Redid Addons list
• Help menu item now goes somewhere
• You can now look at what the crash report contains
• Chips can now define the Y position that each input/output "connects" to
• Improved various Default chips
• Added millisecond timestamp to log entries (see main post for details)