Unable to load resource pack

[owend]

Got it to compile[1] but on running bin/halleyproj it throws an error:

Unhandled exception: Unable to load resource pack "/Users/zzz/Projects/halley-template/assets/game.dat"

I wasn't able to find a sample .dat file so I'm not sure if that is expected or not?

[1] It actually didn't compile out of the box, the test classes in the halley submodule seem to be the latest git master but are using an older interface for some internal function calls, like:

-void initSDLSystemPlugin(IPluginRegistry &registry);
+void initSDLSystemPlugin(IPluginRegistry &registry, Maybe cryptKey);

and

-bool isDevBuild() const override
+bool isDevMode() const override

Should I open a separate bug about that?

[ghost]

@owend Replace the body of initResourceLocator with this:

locator.addFileSystem(unpackedAssetsPath);

[thoughton]

I've run into the same issue (on Ubuntu 18.04).

Trying the above suggestion resulted in a different error:

Unhandled exception: Unable to load assets.

This might be a silly question... but are there even meant to be any loadable assets as part of this template?

[ghost]

@thoughton did you run the halley-cmd tool over your sources?

As for your question, halley is a source based library. You just plug-in the source in your game project and start using this library. And it happens that halley itself needs a minimal amount of assets (included in the halley repo) for it to work. You need to import those assets with halley-cmd tool.

In my case the problem was that the tool was collecting the assets in assets_unpacked folder, but wasn't packaging them in a dat file.

[thoughton]

Ah right, no I hadn't run halley-cmd - in fact I didn't realise it even existed, as the Tools weren't building for me due to an issue with Yaml-cpp... but that's sorted now at least.

So I now have the halley-cmd and can successfully import the project's assets. I'm still not entirely sure what the overall workflow should be, but this probably isn't the place to dicsuss that. :)

[ghost]

@thoughton The wiki contains info about building and running the games. The api documentation is incomplete but the engine source appears to be quite clean and easy to understand (at least the parts I've read).

[thoughton]

@sagartewari01 Oh I hadn't seen the wiki - thanks!

[brandc87]

You need to run halley-cmd pack asset-manifest.yaml /dir/to/proj /dir/to/halley after right? Unless you replace the locator to the unpacked path as @sagartewari01 said

Also just noticed you can add encryption keys to the YAML which is pretty cool for packing assets when it comes to release :)