[Bf-committers] game engine without visual

[Martin Poirier]

Assuming you'd want to run blender as the game server, which is very unlikely I would think.

Martin




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>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:21:51 PM
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>anyone making a game server will really need this function!
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>On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:07 PM, P2sta <p2sta at atlas.cz> wrote:
>> Thanks for answer,
>>
>> uhm, can you please expline me the second possibility you wrote a bit
>> more. I'm not really sure I do understand what to do.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Zbyněk
>>
>> Dne 24.4.2012 22:06, Campbell Barton napsal(a):
>>> Hi. there are a few ways you could that this,
>>>
>>> we have headless build option for ghost. - in cmake its WITH_HEADLESS,
>>> this builds a blender which does not link with X11 (or do any
>>> windowing).
>>>
>>> You could look at enabling this build flag and then adding ifdef's in
>>> the BGE to comment out drawing code.
>>>
>>>
>>> Another way would be to use G.background (or some BGE variable
>>> initialized from G.background) and have the BGE check for background,
>>> this has the advantage that you wouldn't need  a custom build to take
>>> advantage of the feature.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:26 AM, P2sta<p2sta at atlas.cz>  wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know if it's possible to make the game run on the
>>>> background (without any visual part). I mean when I hit start game
>>>> button, I need only a physics to make collision detection, no rendering.
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody help me wtih that or at least give me some tips how to get
>>>> this done?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Zbyněk
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