La Vida- The Sims For Linux

[Mr. Hibba]

Thanks for the info, an open-source Sims could be cool.

Mr. Hibba.

[Mr. Hibba]

Thanks for the info, an open-source Sims could be cool.

Mr. Hibba.

Oops, I did not see the date on the OP's message. Sorry, but still, thanks for the info.

[Mickeysofine1972]

Nah, try running it and--man, this is a cliché answer--grabbing a cup of coffee. When you return, you should see a skybox, ground plane (well, elongated ground box anyway), four walls, and a primitive ancestor of the future dude standing within those walls.

By the way, I've been keeping an eye on this thread for a while, and I must say that having an SVN repository to easily update my copy of the trunk is a great move. I am interested in this project and have been since I first saw the thread before even Mike picked it up. This may not (actually probably won't) be the only time I'll speak up about it.

Indeed it is a slow loader.

Unfortunately its the code that loads the md2 models thats at fault. Python just isnt fast enought to load that amount of data at a reasonable speed.

I'm looking into making a C function that loads the models and returns a Python object for use by the game system but havent found a good solution to that.

I've been looking at SWIG but I cant get it to work well wihtmy C++ so I've heard a rumour that its better to use C instead.

If anyone has any experience with writting C and intergrating with pYTHON i'D LOVE SOME POINTERS

Mike

[Xidram]

Indeed it is a slow loader.

Unfortunately its the code that loads the md2 models thats at fault. Python just isnt fast enought to load that amount of data at a reasonable speed.

I'm looking into making a C function that loads the models and returns a Python object for use by the game system but havent found a good solution to that.

I've been looking at SWIG but I cant get it to work well wihtmy C++ so I've heard a rumour that its better to use C instead.

If anyone has any experience with writting C and intergrating with pYTHON i'D LOVE SOME POINTERS

Mike

Well, I've heard of Weave - a subpackage of SciPy. (http://www.scipy.org/Weave)

As for other means of wrapping C/C++ with Python, I must confess that I do not have much experience in this task; sorry.

[OgreProgrammer]

That fix makes la-vida work for me. Thanks.

The soya3d package loads models quickly. Perhaps you could look at how they did things? (I dont know enough about C or python to say any more than that!)

[Mickeysofine1972]

That fix makes la-vida work for me. Thanks.

The soya3d package loads models quickly. Perhaps you could look at how they did things? (I dont know enough about C or python to say any more than that!)

Good to hear!

There are some concerns that the game is getting run on 64bit machines that need a bit more coding and I think that I'll probably end up making a 32 and 64 bit version of the c/c++ shared module for loading models.

Thanks for the heads up about soya3d I'll have a nose around and see if I can get some insight into how its done.

I tried SWIG last night and it failed on even using a basic excample that is installed from the repos. I not sure if I compiled it properly, although I followed the online tutorial on their site to the letter

Maybe there are special considerations when using gcc

Mike

Mike

[OgreProgrammer]

To install soya I had to hit a debian repository for a single file. Soya installs fine in 9.04 but it seems that libode0debian1 is missing from 9.10. I confirm that I am using 64 bit yes.

A quick hit on google took me to a deb I could install though. After that synaptic played nice.

Here is the place to grab deb from ubuntu 9.04

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libode0debian1

[Mickeysofine1972]

To install soya I had to hit a debian repository for a single file. Soya installs fine in 9.04 but it seems that libode0debian1 is missing from 9.10. I confirm that I am using 64 bit yes.

A quick hit on google took me to a deb I could install though. After that synaptic played nice.

Here is the place to grab deb from ubuntu 9.04

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libode0debian1

I got the source and looked through. It seems to use Pyrex to do its C ode stuff.

Im not sure I want to learn a new language to biuld one new module when I want to use the languages I already know.

Has anyone used Pyrex? anyone have an idea if its that differenet from Python?

Mike

[Aayu]

From the examples I have seen of Pyrex, it appears (to me) to be more similar to Boo than to Python, of course, Boo is based on Python. Personally, I wouldn't learn a language just to do a module, but anyone who has written modules using Python/C knows it is a right hassle!

Of course, that's why I prefer perl

[Mickeysofine1972]

From the examples I have seen of Pyrex, it appears (to me) to be more similar to Boo than to Python, of course, Boo is based on Python. Personally, I wouldn't learn a language just to do a module, but anyone who has written modules using Python/C knows it is a right hassle!

Of course, that's why I prefer perl

So it would appear!

I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet and do it the long slow way with Python.h or something like that

Mike