Thanks! Jiba. I downloaded the aTomekk's win32 installer for Soya3D. And it works well on my WinXP.
Then I downloaded the tutorials package to test the new installation. I found the following problem: 1. For most of the examples, if I switch to the python console window from the graphic window, then switch back, I got a 'dead' window. (not responding in the title) E.g. from the examples basic-1 to basic-4, this happens. But for basic-5 and basic-6 I can switch back and the graphics window is still operable. It seems if the graphics window is waiting for some input event, e.g. using soya.process_event() in the script, this problem will not appear. More interestingly, if I do the same thing for the example "character-animation-1", after making the console window top-most, I can see the animation in the behind graphic window still run for several seconds then stops. Do you guys have the same problem on Windows or Linux? Is this a problem of Soya or the wrapped SDL? 2. Another problem is more annoying. By default, the examples open a 'windowed' graphic window, i.e. not a fullscreen window. If I try to resize the graphic window, most of the examples will render in a strange way, losing all the textures! You can reproduce this with the tutorial script "game_skel-2", after resize it, the texture of the terrain and the houses disappear and only gray ground and blue sky remains there. In addition, a new line of text appears in the console window, it says "* soya * Using 16 bits stencil buffer". However, the tutorial "soya-with-tk-1" does not suffer from this problem. I guess the "soya.MAIN_LOOP.update()" may be the key to prevent this problem, am I right? This is the 2nd time I installed Soya3D on my computer. The last time was in the last year, I used the Soya3D for python 2.4 on win32. I remember I had the exactly same problems as I mentioned above. I fully understand many people like Linux/Unix more than Windows. However, considering one of the advantages of Python is its cross-platform ability, I really think Soya3D should be tested thoroughly on Windows also, unless the author claims it is a Linux/Unix software. If the problems I met can be prevent or easily solved by an experienced Soya3D user, I have to suggest the author to prepare some fault-free examples for newbies like me. I say this just because I like to use Soya3D. Hope you could understand and give me a hand. Best wishes, Ting Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ Soya-user mailing list Soya-user@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user
