Plugin SDK Documents | X-Plane Developer

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General Documentation

Title	Date	Description
Building and Installing Plugins	24 Oct 2017	Discusses platform-specific considerations for compiling & distributing plugins on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Developing Plugins	24 Oct 2017	An introduction to the plug-in system, including the basics of how to set up plugins.

Available APIs

Tech Notes

Aircraft

Title	Date	Description
Moving the Plane	10 Jan 2018	This tech note describes how to position the user's aircraft or multiplayer aircraft in X-Plane.

Data Access

Title	Date	Description
SDKRawData	5 Dec 2012	This guide contains some of the raw data used to generate the SDK. It is probably not of general interest, but may be useful to programmers working with lots of datarefs, or adapting plugins to other APIs.

General

Title	Date	Description
LuaJIT	10 Jan 2018	This tech note describes the integration issues between X-Plane 10.20 64-bit and LuaJIT.
Deferred Initialization	12 Dec 2017	This article explains limitations on plugins due to loading early in the X-Plane init sequence.

Graphics

Title	Date	Description
OpenGL State	10 Jan 2018	This note covers the differences between the 3 OpenGL states and how to handle them in your plugin.
Plugins and Objects	10 Jan 2018	This tech note describes how plugins can interact with objects.
Screen Coordinates	10 Jan 2018	This tech-note describes the various coordinate systems in X-Plane.
Drawing Rules	10 Jan 2018	A tech note with guidelines on plugin drawing in X-Plane.

Sound

Title	Date	Description
OpenAL	10 Jan 2018	This tech note explains how to use OpenAL in an X-Plane Plugin.

User Interface