The Road to PyWeek - Serious Reconsiderations

Akake on 2010/03/11 04:21 of Return of the Laughing Fox

I really wanted to do this physics game, but I just can't get Squirtle to work properly, as my Inkscape seems to be broken.

I'm really frustrated. I can't get Inkscape to produce usable output, and I don't think I can fix it.

I'm trying to control myself right now as I'm very upset, but I'm really unsure of what to do right now.

I'm sorry, but I just can't do this. I don't know how to get Inkscape to produce what Squirtle needs, and without Squirtle I can't do what I set out to do.

I know most folks seem to be able to use Inkscape output as-is, but I get output that I can't use.

I'm really sorry...

--Akake

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Cosmologicon on 2010/03/11 13:27:

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I was never able to use it either. I had to export everything to PNGs. In fact, between Richard and you, I was hoping that other people besides me would work out the kinks so that I could use it for Pyweek myself. :D

richard on 2010/03/14 03:50:

Akake: what version of Inkscape are you using? What problems do you encounter (unknown opcode, or XML parsing problem, or ?)

It's odd really - I had no issues using it last PyWeek. I'm using Inkscape 0.47 on OS X.
 

Akake on 2010/03/14 14:27:

I've actually gotten it working, it just took hitting the SVG output preferences with a hammer for a bit.

And I'm using 0.49 on Ubuntu.

tartley on 2010/03/22 09:07:

I have successfully used Inkscape to produce SVG that I subsequentially imported using Squirtle. Actually I then went on to create a modified  version of Squirtle, that outputs vertex arrays instead of display lists. Let me know if you'd like to see the code - it's not terribly robust (eg I lost the ability to handle arcs and beziers along the way, but that should be relatively easy to fix again)

richard on 2010/03/22 12:11:

@tartley that could be cool. It'd be even cooler if it included the layer handling and deformation (ok, just deletion at the moment) additions I wrote for squirtle :-)

I haven't tried it with http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.4/editor/svg-editor.html yet, but that might be fun too (tho it looks like detecting layer groups would be handled differently)
 
I know, I don't ask much :-)

ninmonkey on 2010/03/22 15:33:

@tartley: I'd like to see the code.