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vee I know this is kind of a weird place to post this, but since I am coming from a QC mindset... Is there anyone here running VEE that can give me a breakdown of how to get this running correctly? Some of the libraries that it says need to be installed seem to be unavailable, and I'm not sure if I really need to update python or not. Then, when I go to the site about loading the audio library, my eyes are starting to glaze over where it says if I am on Linux I'm fine, but things are going to be much more convoluted for OS X... So in a nutshell, what I am asking is... Does anyone have experience with whether it is even reasonable to attempt to run this on OS X, and also, a brief breakdown of how to get it running if it is possible at all... |
Out of the box, VEE depends on Qt and a zillion other packages.
I was able to get it to compile and run in Fedora Linux in Parallels (see the two 2007.01.22 screenshots).
By removing the Qt and Python dependencies, porting the Python examples to C++, and adding GLUT support, I was able to get it to work in OS X (see the 2007.02.20 screenshot). I contacted the original author about contributing this port back to the main codebase, but he wasn't interested.
Pretty much all of the VEE functionality is currently exposed in ParticleTools 0.2, though there are a few things missing (such as Volume Operators and a few forces).
Personally I prefer working with VEE via the interface provided by Quartz Composer, instead its native Python-plus-Qt interface.
Ok, I admit that the only reason I am interested in this is after seeing your most recent particle tools clips, and then remembering reading that Vee had object import ability with Solar. So I am basically ultra impatient :o)
That's amazing that you actually got it ported and then he wasn't interested in the code, especially given how screwed up the directions are for getting it running in OS X (eg., I'm always wary of installing a ton of libraries, frameworks, etc...). Hmm, I would be happy as heck that someone did the work, and what would it have hurt? Oh well, what a shame.
I'll take your suggestion that it's more trouble than it's worth.
Seeing the png's was a little bit of a mindblower there, since I had never seen the Vee stuff... the fire truly IS vee-esque!