Plate Up! Mods

A collection of my mods for the game Plate Up!. All of my mods can be seen in the Steam Workshop.

Mod List

Free Camera Control	Allows you to manually control the position and zoom of the camera!	Readme	Steam Workshop
Declutter Crane Mode UI	Hides all UI elments from the Crane mode except for current money. Now you can easily see your whole restaurant with nothing in the way!	Readme	Steam Workshop
Paper Plates	No more need to wash dirty dishes! Just throw them away instead!	Readme	Steam Workshop

Installation

Mods can be easily installed by clicking Subscribe on the mod's workshop page.

Development

Dev Environment Setup

How to setup the development enviroment for this project:

1. Install Visual Studio 2022 and add the C# and Game development with Unity workloads. Run the install and allow it to finish.
2. In the repo root directory, update Environment.props to point the property PlateUpInstallDir to the path of your installed copy of Plate Up!. The default value is set to point to the default Steam install directory, so if you havent changed where Steam is installed there shouldn't be anything for you to do.
3. In the _Development directory is a script SetupDevEnvironment.ps1 that will install BepInEx and modify PlateUp to be a development build instead of a regular release build. Run this script with .\SetupDevEnvironment.ps1. This only needs to be done once. To see if it succeeded launch Plate Up and you should see the text Development Build text in the lower-right corner of the screen.

Building and Debugging

1. Build the project with target Debug. The mod will automatically be copied over to the game's mod directory. You only need to launch the game to test it!
2. Clicking Start Without Debugging in Visual Studio will automatically build and launch the game for you.
3. Go to Debug -> Attach Unity debugger
4. On the Select Unity Instance dialog simply double click the only Unity instance listed.
5. The debugger is now attached! You can place breakpoints anywhere and debug as you normally would.

Viewing Logs

The script _TailLogs.ps1 in the repository root can be used to improve the logging experience. BepInEx annoyingly always puts it's log console underneath the game, requiring you to move the logs to another window each time you launch the game. Also there is additional logging noise from Plate Up itself that you might not want to be polluting your logs. This script will filter those logs out, and allows you to keep the logs open in another terminal instance on a different monitor.

Other Dev Tools

• Stuff on Demand can be used to spawn in appliances for testing. Open the menu with F3.
• Plate Up Explorer can be used to inspect game objects, UI elements, and more. Open with Ctrl + Shift + T.

Publishing

Update MOD_VERSION in AssemblyInfo.cs and build a new version in Release mode. Then run the Plate Up! mod uploader that is in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PlateUp\PlateUp\PlateUp_Data directory. Point the mod uploader to the workshop dir found in each mod's source code folder.

Links

• How to format the Workshop description : Formatting Help
• Markdown to Steam converter : Steamdown