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| B A L A Z A R |
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*** What is Balazar???
Balazar is a 3D adventure and roleplaying game!
Balazar is currently available only in French ; an English version
will arrive soon.
*** Help needed !
We espescially search for graphists and network coders.
We also search people for porting Balazar to other OS.
*** Requirement
* Python 2.3.x (the latest is the best; tested on 2.3.4)
INCLUDING the files for compiling python modules in C,
e.g. , on Linux Mandrake, you need to install the package :
'libpython2.3-devel-2.3.3-2mdk' (version numbers may change)
* OpenGL (tested with Radeon DRI and NVidia dirvers; hardware
acceleration is heavily advised, though not strictly required)
* SDL (http://libsdl.org/)
* Glew (http://glew.sf.net)
* OpenAL (www.openal.org), PyOgg and PyVorbis (www.xiph.org) for
sound support.
* Cal3D >= 0.10 (cal3d.sourceforge.net)
* Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com)
* FreeType (http://freetype.org)
The Balazar tarball comes with all other dependencies (including Soya
3D and Tofu).
*** Installation
tar -xvzf Balazar-XXX.tar.gz
cd Balazar-XXX
* Do:
python ./setup.py build
* Do AS ROOT:
su
python ./setup.py install
You may get the following warning:
warning: install: modules installed to '/usr/share/',
which is not in Python's module search path (sys.path)
-- you'll have to change the search path yourself
You can safely ignore the warning !
*** How to launch Balazar ?
Just type "balazar" on a console !
There's also a command line interface, see "balazar --help" for more
information.
*** Common troubles
* Sound problems : OpenAL may not support your sound card (e.g.
sound quality is poor, and you get some error printed on the
console, about "native_blitbuffer: Assertion `0' failed" or "fcntl:
Invalid argument"). Some people has obtained good result by forcing
the use of esd. For that, edit ~/.openalrc, and write in it :
(define devices '(esd))
* ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot handle TLS data
This problem occurs typically on Debian with NVidia cards.
Just install the "nvidia-glx" Debian package.
*** Contacts and website
jibalamy@free.fr
http://balazar.nekeme.net
