Omniverse Kit C++ Extension Template

This project contains everything necessary to develop extensions that contain C++ code, along with a number of examples demonstrating best practices for creating them.

What Are Extensions?

While an extension can consist of a single extension.toml file, most contain Python code, C++ code, or a mixture of both:

                                                     Kit
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             Python Only                            C++ Only                            Mixed
(eg. omni.example.python.hello_world)  (eg. omni.example.cpp.hello_world)  (eg. omni.example.cpp.pybind)

Extensive documentation detailing what extensions are and how they work can be found here.

Getting Started

1. Clone the GitHub repo to your local machine.
2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the root of your cloned repo.
3. Run build.bat to bootstrap your dev environment and build the example extensions.
4. Run _build\{platform}\release\omni.app.example.extension_browser.bat to open an example kit application.
   • Run omni.app.example.viewport.bat instead if you want the renderer and main viewport to be enabled.
   • Run omni.app.kit.dev.bat instead if you want the full kit developer experience to be enabled.
5. From the menu, select Window->Extensions to open the extension browser window.
6. Enter omni.example.cpp in the search bar at the top of the extension browser window to view the example extensions included with this repo.

Debugging C++ Extensions

1. Run build.bat (if you haven't already) to generate the solution file.
2. Open _compiler\vs2019\kit-extension-template-cpp.sln using Visual Studio 2019.
3. Select omni.app.example.extension_browser as the startup project (if it isn't already).
   • Select omni.app.example.viewport instead if you want the renderer and main viewport to be enabled.
   • Select omni.app.kit.dev instead if you want the full kit developer experience to be enabled.
4. Run/debug the example kit application, using the extension browser window to enable/disable extensions.

Creating New C++ Extensions

1. Copy one of the existing extension examples to a new folder within the source/extensions folder.
   • The name of the new folder will be the name of your new extension.
   • The omni prefix is reserved for NVIDIA applications and extensions.
2. Update the fields in your new extension's config/extension.toml file as necessary.
3. Update your new extension's premake5.lua file as necessary.
4. Update your new extension's C++ code in the plugins folder as necessary.
5. Update your new extension's Python code in the python folder as necessary.
6. Update your new extension's Python bindings in the bindings folder as necessary.
7. Update your new extension's documentation in the docs folder as necessary.
8. Run build.bat to build your new extension.
9. Refer to the Getting Started section above to open the example kit application and extension browser window.
10. Enter the name of your new extension in the search bar at the top of the extension browser window to view it.

Generating Documentation

1. Run repo.bat docs to generate the documentation for the repo, including all extensions it contains.
   • You can generate the documentation for a single extension by running repo.bat docs -p {extension_name}
2. Open _build/docs/kit-extension-template-cpp/latest/index.html to view the generated documentation.

Contributing

The source code for this repository is provided as-is and we are not accepting outside contributions.