Cube is one cool game

[Closer]

Cube seems like i should be paying for it it so good.
Quake 1 style
Great graphics
Great game play

I found it at http://www.happypenguin.org/

Enjoy Closer

[Lemmingz]

Well I got it, now what do I do with it?
There is little documentation for it, and no installer or make file.
I tried to make the bin file executable and do an ldd but with no luck "command not found"
It looks like a cool game

[Closer]

I just untarred the cube folder in my home directory.

cd /home/closer/cube

./cube_unix -w1024 -h768

change the 1024 and 768 for desired resolution

Closer

[Lemmingz]

I did that but got the error
"error while loading shared libraries lib SDL-1.1.so no such file or directory"
i know that I have the sdl libs installed, and even made sym links to them in the cube directory.
dunno what to do. :(

[Closer]

I have seen this before and corrected it by upgrading to the latest SDL librairys.

[mark@localhost mark]$ rpm -q SDL
SDL-1.2.2-3

Also install the latest

SDL_1.2.2-3
SDL-1.2.2-3-devel
SDL_image
SDL_image-devel
SDL_mixer
SDL_mixer-devel
smpeg
smpeg-devel

Closer

[Lemmingz]

Well, it almost works now.
the game tries to start then dies with:
log: sdl
log: net
log: world
log: video: sdl
log: video: mode
log: video: misc
log: glinit
log: basetex
log: models
log: cfg
log: sound
./bin_unix/linux_client: error while loading shared libraries: ./bin_unix/linux_client: undefined symbol:Mix_Linked_Version

Any suggestions?
thanks

[bwkaz]

Hey, you're not the only one getting that.

I'm trying a find / -name 'lib*.so' -exec "nm -CA {} | grep Mix_Linked_Version" \; 2>/dev/null now. Basically it searches my entire hard drive for any lib*.so files, and outputs all their symbols (the nm command). Then grep looks for that symbol. It takes a while, but it'll be done soon....

OK, it came back with nothing, not on my Mandrake installs (8.0 or 8.1), and not on LFS. CLOSER, would you mind doing one of those and telling us which library defines it?

[ 10 February 2002: Message edited by: bwkaz ]

[Closer]

Here is what my output looks like when I launch the game and all works as it should

[mark@localhost mark]$ cd cube
[mark@localhost cube]$ ./cube_unix -w1024 -h768
log: sdl
log: net
log: world
log: video: sdl
log: video: mode
log: video: misc
log: glinit
log: basetex
log: models
log: cfg
log: sound
log: loadmap
log: localconnect
log: client1
log: mainloop
[mark@localhost cube]$


I do know I had to use SDL_mixer-1.2.1-3
older versions gave me similar error.

and I also needed smpeg-0.4.4-7

bwkaz I had no returned output from the command you asked me to run.

This is just a SDL problem Im sure
It wants the latest SDL packages installed properly

Dont give up this game rocks,

Closer

[bwkaz]

Nothing? That's ... odd. Oh well, I'll try newer SDL_mixer and smpeg's tomorrow (I have version 1.2.0 and 0.4.4). Unless smpeg 0.4.4-7 is just some distro's patch onto 0.4.4? I hope not...

[bwkaz]

All right, it works just fine with SDL_image 1.2.1 and SMPEG 0.4.4. It is pretty cool.

[saithan]

Thanks for introducing me to this one I can get into this. All I needed was SDL image libSLD and SDL_mixer it started right up.
But damn that skill level 5 is a *****. anyways great game and I hope to see more stuff like that in the near future.

[Lemmingz]

Ummmm....
How do I install the latest sdl libs without destroying my system?
I installed the sdl libs from the latest rawhide red hat release they asked for the latest glibc6 and glibc-common libs so I installed them too
Now my system is totally whacked. I have to re-install red hat 7.1 now. It's a good thing that I have seperate /home and /root partitions!
Oh well, live and learn.
I have redhat ver 7.1 and Nvidia drivers.
Haaaalp!
Thanks

[Closer]

Hi, Lemmingz

I used up2date. It logs into redhat and updates all outdated packages. Namely it upgraded glibc for me. I use RH 7.2 and Im not positive up2date was on RH 7.1. Just open a console and type up2date and see if it works. If not Im thinking its time for RH 7.2 . its far better then 7.1

Closer

[Lemmingz]

Ahhhhh, a fresh install. Now that feels better.
It's probably a good thing I did to correct any stupid things I've done as root!
It seems that I do have up2date. I'll give it a try.
Thanks

[Lemmingz]

I finally got it to work!!!!!
It kept crashing on log: sound, but all I had to do was enable sound server on startup in GNOME.
Are those monster models quake2 models? If so I'll change them all to Homer Simpson models and skins.
I like the map making feature too.

[ScRapZ_1]

I finally got it working myself... but it turns the sensitivity on the mouse waaaaaaaaaaay down low. I cant play it like that, is there something to fix it?

TTFN,
ScRapZ_1 :p

[Lemmingz]

Read the readme file about config files. There is a mouse sensivivity setting.
The game appears to be in very early stages of development because you can't add extra custom textures, however you can copy the /packages directory and rename it then edit the textures in it for different custom maps and different music. To play single player mode on your custom map you must rename your map with an existing map name. The monsters are q2 models too so you can change them if you want.
I'm currently working on a postal cube map and using the gimp to make post office textures for it.
Map editing in this game is so easy it's unbelieveable!!!!
Try it.

[ 20 February 2002: Message edited by: Lemmingz ]