Hi,

are the various ps tools - eedit, pawseditor, ccheck, etc. - still up-to-date and used, or are they outdated and no longer maintained?

So far I could run eedit, ccheck and in some measure navgen; pawseditor seems to crash on some missing file; I haven't tried other tools yet... what's the situation?

Bye
Andrea

Bye
Andrea

Seriously folks how can you compile a client and get it to run on another system that has not done a full up install of crystalspace?
I have been trying to come up with some ways to just include libraries but no joy so far.

You can ship all the libraries (.so) in your client package and then add the library path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Let's say that the client extracts all of its files under a directory PSCLIENT; you put all the required libraries (including CS dependancies) in $PSCLIENT/lib , then provide a pslaunch.sh that looks like this:
#!/bin/sh

# set the variable PSCLIENT to the current directory
export PSCLIENT=$(pwd)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PSCLIENT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./pslaunch

This in theory; in practice I haven't tried it.

EDIT: just a little cleanup to make the launcher script more clear.

Bye
Andrea

Hi,

LigH, thanks for the hints

In fact it's not mandatory to store the data in binary format, the text .xml wil also work.
There's not even the need to zip all the files together in world.zip, meshes.zip etc.: you can put all the files in a directory and then change the vfs.cfg file to point to that directory instead of the zip file; the .zip file and the binary formats give better performance while loading the contents, but at the moment we're using text formats and directories for easier testing and modifications.

Regarding the "public" concept, I can understand that the PS team wants to prevent others to put up clones of their shard and encourage people to join PS, however I don't see problems if someone creates a new and different world using the same engine; in fact this would be beneficial also for PS as there will be more people working on the code, and bug fixes could be shared.

Chetty: even if the file format is not documented one can figure out thing by looking at the code... I know that a good documentation is more convenient, however the "open" license requires only to share the code and not to document it, and if the developers aren't willing to document something there's nothing we can do (except to document it ourselves).

Back to my original question: the various xml files are updated by hand when a new content is added? Also other operations are done by hand or there's a helper tool for this?

Bye
Andrea

PS: chetty, maybe we can somehow cooperate? Is there a site about your effort to setup a PS world? Or maybe you can send me an email? My address should be visible on my profile.

I believe the kernel of the question is handling the database, knowing where to register meshes, textures etc. to make "items".

Thanks LigH, you are right: the core of the question is how to register meshes, sectors, music, effects, materials not only in the database but also in the varios xml files around.
However also the other part of the question is important, especially with the 3dsmax exporter: the exporter is said to work with 3ds V5 or V6, but the current version is 2013, ant thus my curiosity to know the tools (and versions) used to actually make the contents in PS.

Bye
Andrea

Hi,

first a little presentation: we are an italian team who already runs two shards based on nwn1 and nwn2, you can see our site at http://www.ladiun.it .

However the nwn2 shard has a bunch of problems, so we would like to setup a new world using the Planeshift engine.

So far we managed to compile everything under Linux and the server and client run fine; however the other tools have some issues, but we didn't dig into this yet.

We're also having some trouble in adding new assets to the server, the documentation (we're mainly looking at the wiki) doesn't explain deeply what needs to be done and which files or tables in the database need to be updated and how when you add some new asset... is there maybe some tool that takes care of doing all the needed changes when a new content is added?
Also, which programs (and which version) are you using to create new assets?

Thanks
Andrea