ISOTOPIA: Free Software Isometric Engine/Editor
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Topic: ISOTOPIA: Free Software Isometric Engine/Editor
Posted By: darkwave
Subject: ISOTOPIA: Free Software Isometric Engine/Editor
Date Posted: 24 October 2007 at 3:16am
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hi, I hope I'm in the right place for this announcement. If I'm not please move or emove this message. we developed a new isometric game engine and editor: http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia - ISOTOPIA: Free Software Hacker Friendly MMORPG System  Usage: Download your version (GNU/Linux or Windows but MacOSX and GP2X versions planned) and edit files contained in the tiles/ and sprites/ (and why not user_interface/  ) folders.Push H for help during editing sessions. Please use this thread to ask questions but this http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia/newticket - tickets system to send to us bugs or feature requests. Waiting for your feed-back and also for collaboration proposals  Thank you in advance, dw PS: Please note that this project is not a commercial product. Its http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia/browser/isotopia_new - code is licensed as Free Software (GPL) and the http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia/wiki/Credits - graphic resources are Creative Commons licensed. |
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Posted By: M.E.
Date Posted: 24 October 2007 at 4:03am
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Hi Darkwave, Nice editor you have. So easy. The controls on the 'Enter' mode are not intuitive to me. I would like the arrow keys to change to the direction I want them to go. Really nice to see your own level with a lot of characters. Good job and looking forward to the minigame option being available as well as deploying my own game with it ! Best regards from M.E. ------------- http://www.kunststukken.nl - KunstStukken.nl M.E. Art |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 24 October 2007 at 6:19pm
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Looks great!
EDIT: Hup, it compiles on OS X! Woo hoo! ------------- |
Posted By: darkwave
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 12:44am
Yes. It's already coded with macOSX in mind but I couldn't figure out how to compile for this platform on GNU/Linux  Would you be so kind to write here the procedure to compile it yourself on OsX so that people can do it at home? Also a screenshot would be great promotion material  dw |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 6:26am
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@Hatch, I wanna run it to see. Elaborate if possible for Tiger/Intel?
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 10:28am
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I can't go too in depth while at work, but I can tell you what you'll need before you begin
You'll need http://subversion.tigris.org/ - Subversion (svn) to retrieve the source code. This may actually come with the Dev Tools (see below), I don't remember. You'll need http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ - Apple Developer's Tools (Xcode) to compile. Free, but you have to sign up as a developer (you don't need any proof or awesome coding skills or anything; it's available to everyone). It also probably came on a DVD included with your system disks. And you'll need some variety of the X Window System to actually run it (mm, and it probably won't compile unless it's installed). You can use http://www.xfree86.org/ - XFree86 or Apple's X11 (what I use). It comes with your Dev Tools, but I think you have to install it separately. I would just post the binary I compiled, but it's only for PPC and I'm sure it's dynamically linked anyhow. More when I get home. ------------- |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 10:45am
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I have and use DevTools. The snag for me seems to relate to the Intel chip, not the code :/
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 10:47am
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no no no, it should work fine with Intel. PPC would be more likely to cause problems and didn't, so yeah. ------------- |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 1:45pm
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I'll try again then using your post.
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 25 October 2007 at 4:56pm
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Compiling Isotopia for Dummies
To retrieve the source code, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type cd ~; svn co http://code.autistici.org/svn/isotopia/isotopia_new/ isotopia_new(You can copy/paste. Press return to input the command) This will put a folder called isotopia_new in your home folder. Now type cd ~/isotopia_new/; ./autogen.sh Wait for it to finish. It's done when you get the prompt back. And now ./configure It'll do some more grinding. When you get the prompt back do make Grind grind grind. Lastly make install Ta da! It's installed. Now open whatever variety of X Windows you have. X11 is located in /Applications/Utilities/. You should automatically get a terminal window. Type isotopia If this doesn't work, try /usr/local/bin/isotopia That's it. If anyone has any problems you can IM or PM me. ------------- |
Posted By: darkwave
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 1:14am
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Originally posted by Hatch Compiling Isotopia for Dummies (...) Ta da! It's installed. Now open whatever variety of X Windows you have. X11 is located in /Applications/Utilities/. You should automatically get a terminal window. Type isotopia If this doesn't work, try /usr/local/bin/isotopia That's it. If anyone has any problems you can IM or PM me. WoW. Thank you for the support  Anyway, keep in mind that the SVN version of isotopia is a "living thing" so you may find the source code or the building procedure broken sometimes We are making a binary version for tiger in order to make it simple for lazy users too Stay tuned. dw |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 6:55am
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Originally posted by darkwave
WoW. Thank you for the support My pleasure. I love open source (especially GNU) software and think it deserves all the support it can get. I don't know if there's any specific lisense I can invoke, but you may do anything you like with that mini-tutorial with or without my permission. I tried to put it on your Trac wiki but couldn't figure out how. It seemed like you have editing priveleges restricted? Anyhow, I'll post a screenie later today. Thanks for maintaining such nice standard code! EDIT: Tags ------------- |
Posted By: darkwave
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 3:22am
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Edit: Just uploaded the current stable version (Ubuntu/Fedora, Windows and Source Code) here: http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia - http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia Originally posted by Hatch Compiling Isotopia for Dummies To retrieve the source code, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type cd ~; svn co http://code.autistici.org/svn/isotopia/isotopia_new/ isotopia_new(You can copy/paste. Press return to input the command) The SVN version is in a unstable state so I suggest you to use the "revision #117" using this SVN command: svn co http://code.autistici.org/svn/isotopia/isotopia_new -r 117 Then you should find a new folder called isotopia_new. Inside this folder run following commands: sh ./autogen.sh (make install doesn't work in this version) To run ISOTOPIA open an X Terminal and inside the isotopia_new/src folder execute this: ./isotopia Have fun and write to me in case of problems. Thank you, dw PS: If ./configure gives you problems try running again this: sh ./autogen.sh Then try again with ./configure and make  |
Posted By: darkwave
Date Posted: 03 November 2007 at 10:33pm
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They spoke about our project on Italian national television: http://www.tg3.rai.it/SITOTG/TG3_pagina/0,8769,11,00.html - Push "Guarda la Puntata" in order to see the video (Sorry for the bad media files... I hope to be able to create a better video only with our interview soon) I personally dislike television and main stream information medias but some promotion can be useful :) What about all you isometric artists out there? Someone has something made with ISOTOPIA to show us? Hoping to see isometric cool tiles and sprites soon, dw |
Posted By: pinoguin
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 7:46am
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This is the tool I need! Thanks! it works great in Ubuntu I'm thinking of developing a site with some pixel art. This reminds me of http://www.citycreator.com I hope it's alright to use the screenshots I made of each creation for my site ... ? btw where do you get your images? I'm actually looking for some more free resources of iso pixel art. ------------- http://pinoguin.com - http://pinoguin.com - paid hosting, typo3 cms specialist http://villagelocal.com - http://villagelocal.com - Free hosting, PIXEL art towns |
Posted By: darkwave
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 12:31am
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Originally posted by pinoguin This is the tool I need! Thanks! it works great in Ubuntu We decided Ubuntu/Debian to be our "main platform"  Originally posted by pinoguin I'm thinking of developing a site with some pixel art. This reminds me of http://www.citycreator.com I hope it's alright to use the screenshots I made of each creation for my site ... ? Art made with ISOTOPIA by you is your! ISOTOPIA is just a tool/game and doesn't change normal copyright usage. Anyway I suggest you to share the result of your work under Creative Commons so project like your or like our could use it. Originally posted by pinoguin btw where do you get your images? I'm actually looking for some more free resources of iso pixel art. You can use the Isometric Pixel art included in ISOTOPIA but remember to put somewhere visible our http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia/wiki/Credits - Credits wiki page if you do that. We will provide new pixel art in the future licensed with http://www.creativecommons.org/about/ - Creative Commons but nothing before 2008... We are working hard on ISOTOPIA new version so I suggest you to stay tuned and I invite you to use the http://code.autistici.org/trac/isotopia/newticket - Ticket System to provide suggestions and feedback! Thank you for the attention. dw |