3DView2 Workspace Setup

3DView2 Workspace Setup

What you need

In order to compile 3DView2 or 3DEmotion you need:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1 (aka Visual Studio .NET 2003) or better (other compilers might work, too, but I cannot help you with that.)
• The latest version of the Microsoft DirectX SDK installed. (DirectX 9 SDK, October 2005 Update at the time I write this. Later version should work, too.). The SDK is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx.
• The EAX 2.0 SDK by Creative Labs installed; it is needed by the sound system. Download: http://developer.creative.com/articles/article.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31&top=71&aid=138
• The current Java SDK installed if you plan to compile the Eclipse plugin. It is available from http://java.sun.com (Without the Java SDK, you will still be able to compile the standalone version of 3DView.)

I assume you have at least a basic understanding of C++, Microsoft Windows Programming and Microsoft DirectX. If not, there are excellent tutorials out there. It is not that difficult, really :)

Getting the source code

Grab the project org.micropsi.native.code from our CVS. (Careful: it's huge! About 70MB at the time I write this, but chances are it has grown since then :)) It is split into several subprojects witch reside in separate folders. See 3DView2 Project Structure for details.

Compiling

In the folder micropsi/3dview2/code, there should be a Solution File called 3dview_with_libs.sln. The solution file for 3demotion is 3demotion_with_libs.sln in the folder micropsi/3demotion/code. Open one of these files with Visual Studio and Batch Build all targets and all configurations. You're done!

Setting the Working Directory

You must set the working directory for both 3dview2.exe and 3demotion.exe to ../bin in MS Visual Studio (under project properties --> debugging). Otherwise you will get error messages (file not found etc.) when running the applications from within Visual Studio.