Shiva in a DLL?

[Shaping]

Is Shiva, the engine, available as a DLL? I want to interface to it with my Smallltalk environment's FFI, which can handle the usual C calling conventions--CDECL, STDCALL, and FASTCALL?

[NiCoX]

Hi,

The engine is available as a static library (you can find it in the UAT installation folder), so you can easily create a DLL from it

[Shaping]

Can you build the DLL for me, and send it to me in an attachment? I need a C-based API, something I can use as Leadwerks is currently used. Otherwise, I have a lot of remapping to do: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssearch/thread/2f57439d-f939-44e8-a27b-dc3cddd80066

I cannot change my programming environment, without losing much efficiency, because I've built-up so much code over the years. I don't understand why this need/situation for greater modularity was not anticipated. Does no one else on this forum need to use a graphics engine by linking to a DLL?

[Xdust]

Can you build the DLL for me, and send it to me in an attachment? I need a C-based API, something I can use as Leadwerks in currenlty used. Otherwise, I have a lot of remapping to do: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssearch/thread/2f57439d-f939-44e8-a27b-dc3cddd80066

I cannot change my programming environment, without losing much efficiency, because I've build-up so much code over the years. I don't understand why this need/situation for greater modularity was not anticipated. Does no one else on this forum need to use a graphics engine by linking to a DLL?

Yea, a compiled DLL would be great for me also. That bloody ".Lib" takes 2 minutes to compile.

I could save a TON of time on my server if i had a DLL to work with.

And I cant Imagine it would be hard for Stonetrip to make at all.

[Shaping]

Thanks, I'm feeling much saner now. I hope we get our DLL.

[Shaping]

Can the lead developers at stonetrip please provide the requested DLL? I can do nothing useful with Shiva until I have a DLL. Thank you.

[NiCoX]

Hi,

If you really need a DLL version quickly, you have 2 options:
- use the WebPlayer DLL
- create a DLL from the static library (basically by adding a DllMain and export few functions)

The best way is the second one, because you'll be able to fully control what you need to expose to your program.

Unfortunately we don't have the DLL version of the standalone engine, and we currently do not have time to create the project, include it in our automated compiling server (because you'll need a version for each engine update), etc. If that was just a "hit a button and send you the file" I would have done it before... but it's unfortunately not the case

[Shaping]

Hi,

If you really need a DLL version quickly, you have 2 options:
- use the WebPlayer DLL
- create a DLL from the static library (basically by adding a DllMain and export few functions)

The best way is the second one, because you'll be able to fully control what you need to expose to your program.

Unfortunately we don't have the DLL version of the standalone engine, and we currently do not have time to create the project, include it in our automated compiling server (because you'll need a version for each engine update), etc. If that was just a "hit a button and send you the file" I would have done it before... but it's unfortunately not the case

I only need the functions, one of which would be to init the DLL (state-machine for the engine). What is DllMain for? How large is the Shiva API (for complete control of engine and scene state)?

I'm not following the versioning issue at all: If you are automatically compiling a static library, you can automatically compile the matching DLL. The two would have the same APIs.

[Shaping]

Hi,

If you really need a DLL version quickly, you have 2 options:
- use the WebPlayer DLL
- create a DLL from the static library (basically by adding a DllMain and export few functions)

The best way is the second one, because you'll be able to fully control what you need to expose to your program.

Unfortunately we don't have the DLL version of the standalone engine, and we currently do not have time to create the project, include it in our automated compiling server (because you'll need a version for each engine update), etc. If that was just a "hit a button and send you the file" I would have done it before... but it's unfortunately not the case

What is the WebPlayer DLL, and why would I not want to use it?

[default]

I just wanted to chime in that I could also really use a DLL version of the engine, or maybe some info on where to find and how to use the webplayer DLL.

[ale870]

I was interested also.
1) what is webplayer dll?
2) Is there any way to make a wrapper for c#?

Thank you!

[broozar]

the old web player files (1.8.1 installer) are located in C:\Users\$username\AppData\LocalLow\StoneTrip\WebPlayer1.8.1\, note these files are fairly old (2010). i'd recommend using the S3DClient.dll located in C:\Users\$username\AppData\Roaming\Stonetrip\Player.

[ale870]

Thank you @broozar.
Please can you briefly tell me how I can use it via c#?

[broozar]

sorry, no expert on that. what is it you are trying to achieve?

if you are searching for a way to code games with c#, maybe the c++ export function in shiva can help you, which will generate a visual studio solution, but it's c++. also check out the SDK files inside the Authoring Tool installation folder
(ShiVa Authoring Tool\Data\Windows\Windows\Build , a dll file is also in there).
There is no ready to go solution for c# and ShiVa.

[ale870]

I think in version 1.9 a big problem is script implementation. So I wanted to bypass it using an external language, and c# (via mono) could be a productive solution.
THank you.