Software

• Visual Studio with .net desktop development workload
• Danku's New Project Template
• Unity (Optional)
• dnSpy (Optional)

Visual Studio

You can download Visual Studio for free from the Microsoft website , when installing make sure to include the ".NET desktop development".

This should give you access to create a Class Library in the .NET framework later on.

Danku's new project template

A community member, Danku, has created a template people can use to create new mods quickly. Once Visual Studio has finished installing, by pressing Win + R and typing cmd inside the windows run window

In this new window, copy and paste the following command:

dotnet new install Danku.VTOLVRModLoader.Templates

This should install a new project template that we can use in Visual Studio later on

Unity (Optional)

You don't need Unity, however, if you want to start importing your own assets into the game then you will need to create asset bundles inside of Unity. In the player.log file, you can see what Unity version VTOL VR currently uses. It will be on the third line EG: Initialize engine version: 2020.3.30f1 (1fb1bf06830e).

You can download all Unity version from their website here.

Once these are installed, we can next move onto creating a basic mod in Visual Studio.

dnSpy (Optional)

dnSpy is what allows you to look at decompiled code and look at what everything does. It's downloadable here.