Hullo! 
Incase anyone is interested I’ve uploaded a new version of Metal Blob Solid.
It’s now up to version 0.2 and feature 3 playable missions.
There are also some localisation plans, so there is a template thingy if
anyone wants to translate it to French, Spanish, etc.
Anyway… there are two RPMs (binary and source) plus one source tar ball.
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php
You need SDL, SDL Image, SDL Mixer, SDL TTF and ZZIP Lib.
Enjoy
Stevieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Oops!
Sorry people… I screwed up! Uploaded a duff archive!
I’ve fixed it now though
Tried the rpm package, it installed fine, when I run it I get:
Could not parse /etc/X11/XftConfig. File was either inaccessable or was not found!!
Just wanted to let you know, just in case.
(I run RH9)
Regards
Henning
Hmmm…
That bit of the code looks for the Arial true type font in the font path. It
gets the font path from your XftConfig, which I believe resides in that
directory.
Don’t suppose you could confirm for me whether or not XftConfig really does
live in /etc/X11/ on your system…?
Cheers,
Stevie :)On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 15:52, Henning wrote:
Tried the rpm package, it installed fine, when I run it I get:
Could not parse /etc/X11/XftConfig. File was either inaccessable or was not
found!!Just wanted to let you know, just in case.
(I run RH9)Regards
Henning
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Stephen Sweeney wrote:
Hmmm…
That bit of the code looks for the Arial true type font in the font path. It
gets the font path from your XftConfig, which I believe resides in that
directory.Don’t suppose you could confirm for me whether or not XftConfig really does
live in /etc/X11/ on your system…?
I don’t have this file either, but I have
/etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE, and its contents is the following :
Xft2, and
Stephane
Ahhhhhhh righto… I’ll get looking into that as well then
Looks like I’ll have to search for about three different config files! Oh man!
Cheers,
Stevieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 20:14, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
Stephen Sweeney wrote:
Hmmm…
That bit of the code looks for the Arial true type font in the font path.
It gets the font path from your XftConfig, which I believe resides in
that directory.Don’t suppose you could confirm for me whether or not XftConfig really
does live in /etc/X11/ on your system…?I don’t have this file either, but I have
/etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE, and its contents is the following :IMPORTANT NOTICE about XftConfig:
The XftConfig config file has been deprecated and obsoleted by
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, which is the new font configuration file for
Xft2, and
is provided by “fontconfig”. A backward compatible Xft1 library is also
provided which has been converted to use fontconfig also and provide
users # with a single way of configuring client side fonts, while retaining
binary # compatibility. For information on configuring fonts using
fontconfig, # please consult the fontconfig documentation.Stephane
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Rrrrrrrrrright,
I’ve uploaded another release! oh, man… 6 MBs over a modem is very painful!
This should fix the problem with the font AND the problem with using local
translation files!
It the automatic arial finding fails then you can always use the new command
line option,
-fontpath
to force it. The path should be the full qualified path including the
filename.
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php
Cheers peeps, and if it works for you I hope the wait was worth it
Stevieeeeeeee
Well, it still doesn’t work. I guess I don’t have the arial.ttf installed, and really I have no idea how to install new fonts on linux.
I guess others will have the same problem as me, since it’s a plain RH9 install I have, I guess many others have the same.
Regards
Henning
Okay, no problem. I’ve learned my lesson on this one!
I’m going to supply a different free font instead in future versions.
Cheers :)On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 13:08, Henning wrote:
Well, it still doesn’t work. I guess I don’t have the arial.ttf installed,
and really I have no idea how to install new fonts on linux.I guess others will have the same problem as me, since it’s a plain RH9
install I have, I guess many others have the same.