Palette installation

Note : the QtMultimedia module, which the sound input module depends, is  missing from the Debian and Ubuntu python-qt4 package. If you want to use the sound recording component, you can use this .deb including the missing module , or wait until the package maintainers fix this problem.

Installation from source

Debian Squeeze

Install dependencies

apt-get install python-qt4 python-cwiid git-core python-setuptools python-dev python-pyglet python-pyparsing python-twisted python-louie python-multiprocessing python-pip python-numpy python-docutils python-simplejson python-profiler
pip install pyflu

Build Palette:

git clone git://luper.fr/palette.git
cd palette
python setup.py install

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-cwiid git-core python-distribute python-dev python-pyglet python-pyparsing python-twisted python-louie python-pip python-numpy python-docutils python-profiler
sudo pip install pyflu

Build Palette:

git clone git://luper.fr/palette.git
cd palette
sudo python setup.py install

You should now be able to launch Palette :

palette-editor.py

Optional: bullet and ballistics (needed to run the demo)

First build Bullet:

sudo apt-get install cmake freeglut3-dev subversion build-essential
svn checkout http://bullet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ bullet
cd bullet
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_DEMOS=OFF -G "Unix Makefiles" .
make
sudo make install

Note: on ubuntu-amd64, edit "src/BulletMultiThreaded/PpuAddressSpace.h" and change this line:

typedef unsigned __int64 ppu_address_t;

to

typedef uint64_t ppu_address_t;

Then ballistics (Python bindings for Bullet):

git clone git://github.com/flupke/ballistics.git
cd ballistics
sudo python setup.py install

Trying the demos

There are a couple of example scenes in the demo/ sub-folder of the source distribution. To try them, go to the preferences panel, and add the demo package to the plugins:

Replace /path/to/demo/directory with the path of the demo/ folder, restart the interface and you should see new components (FallingCubes, FBOExample, etc...). You should then be able to load and run the .pgr files in the demo directory.

You can now have a look at the demo components code and start creating your own !