Help setting up application

[WWJD]

Hello,

I have been coding for a quite while now, and I have begun creating a game engine using ogre. I decided to start by using the tutorial for Ogre 1.9. Here is the issue:

I've installed Ogre 1.9 SDK, I have created the visual studio project, and I have loaded up the tutorial code, only renaming a few things as to integrate it with the rest of my code. Other than name changes, I have not changed any of the code for the tutorial framework. I can compile the code without errors, however when I run it, nothing happens. I added my game engines logs into the functions and see that I am crashing in the "setupResources" portion of the Ogre code. I ran the debugger and found that it happens in this for loop:

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for (i = settings->begin(); i != settings->end(); ++i)
		{
			typeName = i->first;
			archName = i->second;

#if OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_APPLE
			// OS X does not set the working directory relative to the app.
			// In order to make things portable on OS X we need to provide
			// the loading with it's own bundle path location.
			if (!Ogre::StringUtil::startsWith(archName, "/", false)) // only adjust relative directories
				archName = Ogre::String(Ogre::macBundlePath() + "/" + archName);
#endif

			Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().addResourceLocation(
				archName, typeName, secName);
		}

I'm not really sure what's going on, and why the tutorial framework isn't working for me. If anyone could help I'd appreciate it. Sorry if I'm not giving you enough information, I'm new to this engine and am unsure all the inner workings of it right now.

Thanks,
WWJD

[tod]

There are some config files where the executable is. You are probably missing them

[WWJD]

Hey, thanks for the reply,

I do have the plugin.cfg and the resource.cfg already in the location of the exe and other dlls. Are there any others that I need other than those two?

WWJD

[tod]

These may be enough, just make sure resources.cfg contains all the resources you need, and in the correct group. The Ogre log may display the actual resource that fails.

[palsofchaos]

I also had this issue.

Your resource.cfg file is filled with paths to many files within the Ogre SDK you downloaded. Some of these paths may be missing or incomplete. Your exception message may display what file is 'missing'. The resource.cfg needs a relative path that drills down to the exact directory the 'missing' file resides in.

If your unfamiliar with using visual studio, try building 'release' rather than 'debug'. This was another thing that tripped me up after I finished the setup tutorial.

[WWJD]

Thanks guys,

I got it to work. glad there are friendly people here to help.

WWJD