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1. How to install the development tools and build doom3 at home on GNU/Linux

• these instructions will hopefully show you how to install enough packages on your machine at home
  • so that you can build the modified doom3 we are using in the coursework
• these instructions assume
  • you have a debian based installation (includes Mint or Ubuntu)
  • you can trouble shoot a few minor differences between these notes and your system
• if you cannot get doom3 working at home, please use the games development lab J109
  • as these have been tailored your course
• firstly we need to install a few packages, so open up a command tool and type:

• $ sudo apt-get install emacs gdb gcc libsdl-dev libopenal-dev python libogg-dev cmake
  $ sudo apt-get install g++ libsdl-dev libpthread-dev libcurl-dev libopenssl-dev
  $ sudo apt install lib-openssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
  $ sudo apt install libvorbis-dev libjpeg-dev libsdl2-dev

• now make sure you have the same directory structure as we use in the labs:

• $ mkdir -p $HOME/Sandpit/git-doom3

• and fetch the engine

• $ cd $HOME/Sandpit/git-doom3
  $ git clone https://github.com/gaiusm/pybot-dhewm3

• we need to configure the data directories:

• $ cd $HOME
  $ rm -f skeleton-doom3-data.tar.gz
  $ wget http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/targz/skeleton-doom3-data.tar.gz
  $ tar zxf skeleton-doom3-data.tar.gz

2. Compile the doom3 engine from the command line

• we will compile it from within emacs
• start emacs and press F5 to compile and debug doom3

3. Installing data files at home

• dhewm3 is the game engine which is free software (GPL)
• the data files are not free and thus need to be bought from steam (please see these notes) and also the FAQ
• once you have your doom3 pk4 files they must be placed into the directory /usr/share/dhewm3
• once you have copied the pk4 into /usr/share/dhewm3
  • hint this is done in GNU/Linux by:

• $ cd into_your_directory_where_the_pk4_files_exist
  $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/dhewm3/base
  $ sudo cp *.pk4 /usr/share/dhewm3/base

• where into_your_directory_where_the_pk4_files_exist will vary from user to user
• now you can run a tool to verify you have the correct pk4 files

• $ md5sum /usr/share/dhewm3/base/*.pk4
  71b8d37b2444d3d86a36fd61783844fe  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak000.pk4
  4bc4f3ba04ec2b4f4837be40e840a3c1  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak001.pk4
  fa84069e9642ad9aa4b49624150cc345  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak002.pk4
  f22d8464997924e4913e467e7d62d5fe  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak003.pk4
  38561a3c73f93f2e6fd31abf1d4e9102  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak004.pk4
  2afd4ece27d36393b7538d55a345b90d  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak005.pk4
  a6e7003fa9dcc75073dc02b56399b370  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak006.pk4
  6319f086f930ec1618ab09b4c20c268c  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak007.pk4
  28750b7841de9453eb335bad6841a2a5  /usr/share/dhewm3/base/pak008.pk4

4. Running doom3 at home

• the d3 command is not on your machine, but you can either run dhewm3 by hand

• $ $HOME/Sandpit/git-doom3/build/dhewm3

• or you can create a simple shell program which executes this command

• $ sudo emacs /usr/local/bin/d3

• now type into the editor

• #!/bin/bash
  
  $HOME/Sandpit/git-doom3/build/dhewm3

• save the file

• $ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/d3

• all done! You should be able to type d3 from the command line and see doom3 appear

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