Thread: Wagic: a Magic The Gathering etc. engine
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2011-04-28 , 22:15
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Originally Posted by Spaceman75 View Post
Hi all,
1. When I install the game, all the game files are stored in /home/user/wagic/Res/sets/, and not in /home/user/MyDocs/wagic/Res/sets, as reported earlier in this thread. Did any of you experience that? I am a newbie and it took me a while to figure that out. The game does create an empty folder /home/user/MyDocs/wagic/Res/, but there is nothing in there. When I tried to place the card pics there, it didn't have any effect. After some fiddling around for I while, I ended up with both folders (/home/user/wagic/Res/sets/ and /home/user/MyDocs/wagic/Res/sets) containing all the game data, including now the card pics. Certainly not the best way, but the game worked now, with all pics shown in the game. Can someone please explain to me, which of the two folders I should keep? Of course, /home/user/MyDocs/wagic/Res/sets would be preferable, so that I can easily manipulate the settings/pics/themes by just connecting the phone to my PC.
All the Wagic versions are based on a "resources" (Res) folder containing the bitmaps, sound, preferences, rules, extensions, decks, user preferences, mods... We want this folder to be totally user customizable that's why on Maemo, I decided to put it on the FAT partition so that it's directly visible on a PC when you plug your N900 on USB.
The main problem with this mechanism is that the complete installation failed if somebody wanted to install the game with the FAT partition mounted on a PC, the deployment of the RES folder failed, so the complete installation failed. Even if it worked, the game would crash if you even started it with the FAT partition mounted.
This problem was reported by some user first then by the "Extras-test" QA team when I tried to promote the game to "Extras". After a few discussion with them, it appears that a smarter way was to install was first elsewhere, I chosed "/home/user/wagic/Res" and then, using a launcher script, to "/home/user/MyDocs/wagic/Res". I also decided to perform a copy and not a move so that the game would still find some resources and not crash when the FAT partition is not mounted.

In conclusion, if you want to customize the resources, just do it in the FAT partition, it's done for that. If you want, you can erase "/home/user/wagic/Res", but be aware that the game would in this case crash if you start it with the FAT partition unmounted.

Originally Posted by Spaceman75 View Post
2. The second issue is about sound. I couldn't get sound to work, neither FXs nor the game music (the Windows version of Wagic works fine on my PC). Of course, I have set the sound options correctly. I have tried creating new player profiles and changing the settings there, but it just doesn't work. I tried deleting all options.txt files and restarting the game, as well ad complete deletion and re-installation. I have the suspicion that it has someting to do with the above problems of the Res folder ambiguity. But I really don't know.
I must say that I'm playing with the sound deactivated, and even my N900 is always with the sound deactivated ... I'll look at that, but it should work. The windows version of Wagic uses the fmod lib, the Maemo version uses Phonon directly. I may have done something wrong with the latest versions, I'll check that and come back to this thread.

Originally Posted by Spaceman75 View Post
3. Can someone please explain to me the logic behind the keybindings? For example the number codes (e.g. 16777217...). Is there a table to look such numbers up? Sorry, I am a total noob.
The number you see are the Qt internal symbols for keys. It's basically a bug as you should see the name of the key instead. I must say that the binding for Wagic are a real mess, that's one of the reason why I coded the touch interface =)
Anyway, the next version will probably be based on SDL instead of Qt, and I can try to fix this problem while I'm at it.

Originally Posted by Spaceman75 View Post
4. I have downloaded the PSP card pics, and they are sometimes a bit hard to read. Is there a real benefit in downloading and installing the 3.3GB set of HD card pics instead?
I never even tried... but it should in theory be much better. Be sure to run the latest Wagic version and not some old version as I remember fixing a bug where the texture would be sometimes degraded and thus becomes unreadable. Usually, it's perfectly readable with the PSP version.

Originally Posted by Spaceman75 View Post
Last but not least, I really appreciate the community here. The N900 is IMHO the best smartphone to own at the moment, and I am enjoying mine more with every day. It's a shame that Nokia decided to drop this great OS. It has so much potential. But the world is unfortunately dirven by profit-greedy companies who don't even stop at collecting private user data in order to sell it for high profit to who-ever-pays-best. I feel sorry for all the poor owners of the awfully expensive smartphone with the fruit logo
After playing and developing with some iOS and Android devices, I must say that the N900 community has the impressive advantage to have :
- one single source of information grouping everything you want to know
- be very dynamic and cooperative