VS Code extension

Vintage Story Schematic Preview previews Vintage Story schematics (.json and the wiki's .json.gz copies) and QPTech ChiselTools shape files as interactive 3D models without leaving VS Code — the same viewer as the wiki's schematic viewer and chiseled shape viewer.

Download

Download vs-vscode-extension-0.1.0.vsix version 0.1.0, 0.1 MB · built with this version of the wiki

Install

1. Download the .vsix file above.
2. In VS Code open the Extensions view, choose … → Install from VSIX… and pick the file — or run code --install-extension vs-vscode-extension-0.1.0.vsix in a terminal.

Using it

• The preview never replaces VS Code's normal JSON editor. Right-click a schematic (or a ChiselTools shape file) in the Explorer and choose Preview Schematic or Chisel Shape, use the button in the editor title bar, or pick Open With… → Vintage Story Schematic Preview.
• Shape files saved by ChiselTools (.pf save) live in the chiselportfolio folder inside your VintagestoryData folder; files there, and anything named *.pf, open in the preview.
• Orbit, pan and zoom; click a block to see its decoded block-entity data; filter and hide block kinds in the list; peel a structure away from the top with the Up to Y slider.

Settings

• vsSchematic.showCenterMarker — a marker at the middle of the shape (the camera's orbit point).
• vsSchematic.showGrid — a grid on the y = 0 plane.

The extension type-checks, bundles and packages in this project's CI, but it has not been launched in a real VS Code by the maintainers, so expect rough edges.