Hello,

  can you retry with 1.2 final release, then provide a backtrace if you still get the problem ?

Hello,

  afaik the recommended ODE version to use at the moment with CS from SVN  is latest stable, 0.6.
That one should work, or at least I had no problem running wheeledtest a few days ago...

It seems to be just a stub to csColliderActor::AdjustForCollisions(), which
apparently is used compute a new position depending on collision (ie. bounce back if object hits a wall).
vel would be the velocity at which the object is travelling toward newpos
delta would be the elapsed time since you were at oldpos

CEL doesn't make some CS parts obsolete, but rather permits a higher-level use.
Therefore, if you really want to use CEL, you've got to kinda learn it.
But one can't ignore totally CS when working with CEL, so I'd say: look at CEL first,
and if you can't find a way to do what you want with it, check how that would be done from CS.

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Tagged property classes are useful when you want multiple pc of the same type attached to your entity.
Let's say you want your player's entity to have an inventory for weapons and another one for potions,
tags permit to easily select the one you want to operate on.
Note you can have one non-tagged pc, and multiple tagged ones...

Hello,

  please be patient for replies
if you want quickier help, joining irc channel #crystalspace on freenode server might be better.

As for ODE tutorials, check ODE website: http://www.ode.org/ode-docs.html
To get a feeling about how to use ODE in CS apps, check phystut source code in
CS/apps/tutorial/phystut/.
Now with CEL, there are the pcmechsys and pcmechobject property classes.
Check the mechtest source code in cel/apps/mechtest/.

Hello !

  I'm proud to hereby announce the first public release of Ecksdee, a race&destroy game in early development. Basically the idea is to get a Wipeout clone, and maybe later also get some gameplay of Rogue Squadron.
Technically, the game is a  Crystal Core mod, using CS & CEL, with a strong emphase on Genjix' hovering code which was also added to CEL (pchover and pccraft from the mechanics plugin).
This projects also largely benefits of Crystal Core features, like XML-behavioured menu and source code organisation.
It's under the GPL license, so the sourcecode is available to anyone, as well as CVS access.
Currently the game is limited to alone-single-player, there's no AI nor weapons.

Many thanks to:

• Genjix: author of hovering code, and active developer of XD
• Orogor and Brandano: ships designers
• Rayden[SFX]: sound effects
• Jorrit: without him, this project wouldn't even exist
• and all the contributors to CS & CEL

Sourcecode package, known to work with CS&CEL CVS as of 24 february (12:00)
GNU/Linux static binary package (no need for CS & CEL, unset those env vars if present)
Windows static binary package (idem)

One known problem: if the game is slow or screen remains black, change "Ecksdee.Physics.StepTime" config key in AppEcksdee.cfg to 0.003 (this is the default in CVS now).

Have fun ;-)

There's the phystut application, in CS/apps/tutorial/phystut/ ...
There's also a new chapter about physics in CS manual:
http://crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/manual/cs_4.14.php#4.14

[VFS->ChDir ("/lev/terrain");]

(_snip_)
  VFS->ChDir ("data/terrain"); // I put this
  loader->LoadMapFile ("world");
(_snip)
Are there best, simple and easy way to use a heigthmap in a very simple application?

Assuming you want to load the existing terrain map provided with CS, you could use
VFS->ChDir ("/lev/terrain");
or
VFS->ChDir ("/this/data/terrain");
the former being cleaner.

I know that they are probably worlds apart, but let me throw it out there.

We've got the Blender/CS converter (the name escapes me) so I'm wondering how difficult it would be to make a blender plug-in that does a Blender/CS convert and then runs CS in the background.

How different are they?

Well, your dream is becoming reality: the CrystalBlend project was launched a few weeks ago:
http://crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=CrystalBlend

For now it's still a pure CS app, integration in Blender will come later...

[cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ironoak.serverbox.org:/cvsroot/worldbuilder login]

If I understood CVS a bit more than I do, I'd test out whether it works on Linux or not; unfortunately, I don't know how.

To retrieve sources from CVS, try something like this:

[vince@golem tmp]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ironoak.serverbox.org:/cvsroot/worldbuilder login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@ironoak.serverbox.org:2401/cvsroot/worldbuilder
CVS password: just press enter (empty password)
[vince@golem tmp]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ironoak.serverbox.org:/cvsroot/worldbuilder co -P worldbuilder

For general CVS information, take a look at Sourceforge help or CVSHome:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

Unfortunately, I can't see Makefiles or Jamfiles so I guess compiling worldbuilder on GNU/Linux is pretty hard at the moment.
One solution would be to use the createproject.sh from CS/scripts/jamtemplate/, then put and re-arrange worldbuilder source and create necessary Jamfiles.
On the other hand, there the CStudio which should already be buildable on GNU/Linux and looks pretty similar to worldbuilder:
http://cstudio.sourceforge.net/