Tutorials

• Backward Compatibility Tutorial

• Collision Detector Tutorial

• Constraint Tutorials

• Content Creation Tutorial

• Content Parsing Tutorial

• Content Update Tutorial

• Devices Tutorial

• Dynamics Extension Tutorial

• Graphics Model Connections Tutorial

• Keyboard Extension Tutorial

• Mechanism Viewer Tutorial

• Paged Terrain Tutorial

• Ray cast sensor Extension Tutorial

Building the tutorials

The following applies to all tutorials. See each tutorial for specific details.

Windows

The C++ tutorials  are packaged in a Microsoft Visual Studio solution located at <Vortex Studio Installation Folder>\tutorials\tutorials.sln.

To be able to compile and run code, participants must have Visual Studio 2022 (VC143) or later installed. The provided tutorials solution settings are expecting Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0 and the vc143 toolset (this can be changed, these restrictions C++ binary compatibility 2015-2022 apply).

It can be built with 2 configurations:

• Optimized: The most efficient build, provided less debugging information.

• RelWithDebInfo: A release configuration that provided some debugging information. The most convenient configuration to use.

• MinRelSize: It is not working and should be ignored.

Compiled binaries

The solution is precompiled and the executables and plugins are available to use right away. These were built with the Optimized configuration.

The executables are in the <Vortex Studio Installation Folder>\tutorials\bin folder and can be launched using their associated .bat files. The solution is able to launch the processes but the proper command line arguments must be provided in the project settings. See each tutorial for an example.

The plugins are in the <Vortex Studio Installation Folder>\tutorials\plugins folder. To be used in a Vortex application, see Deploying the plugin

The .vxp are only compatible with the same Vortex version.

Linux

Use CMake can also be used to generate a solution

To regenerate the Makefiles with CMake to generate a RelWithDebInfo build, you can use the following command:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING="RelWithDebInfo" .

Not all tutorials are available on Linux.

For more information, look at the CMakeLists file. Is is located at <Vortex Studio Installation Folder>\tutorials\CMakeLists.txt.