Mogre Basic Tutorial0 Question

Setting Your PATH Variable

Ogre itself includes a large number of DLLs which we will need to include in Windows PATH variable. To do this, go to the Control Panel and open System. Click on "Advanced" tab, then click on the "Environment Variables" button. Under "System Variables", find the PATH Variable and click on it. Now click on the "Edit" button. At the end of the "Variable Value" field, add ";C:\OgreSDK\bin\release;C:\OgreSDK\bin\debug", and then click OK. Exit out of the System Properties and the Control Panel.
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Mo ... Tutorial_0

I replaced the ENTIRE variable value with
"C:\OgreSDK\bin\release;C:\OgreSDK\bin\debug" is that going to cause a problem later on?


Quick background of myself since I'm new to the forums(stop reading here): I started learning C# a few weeks ago doing several of those stupid contest problems on the ACM website and I feel like I've got a pretty decent handle on C# programming in general. I've decided, (maybe poorly), that my jump into higher-level application programming would be with the mogre wrapper on ogre with a game like tetris. Why? Because after I'm done with this college shit I might want to program games.

Hopefully I'll just realize how complicated game-programming is and get a job making web-sites for milk companies. Anyways, I'm getting pretty stoned, so look forward to more posts as my marijuana-induced mistakes create more questions.

-radianIW

I replaced the ENTIRE variable value with
"C:\OgreSDK\bin\release;C:\OgreSDK\bin\debug" is that going to cause a problem later on?


probably not on OGRE, but on your system. if you start a program (from the shell), the system looks for an executable in the current directory first and than tries all PATH-directories. that's the reason why you can start e.g. Java from any directory.

I would at least add these:
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\system32

Thanks broseph; I, for some dumbass reason, thought that the system variables were subsets of the user variables up above. Soberly I found out that all my important windows paths had been removed when I ipconfig'ed in cmd this morning.

O and great tutorials mr. culver, very in depth. I hope there are more to come, but definitely a great walkthrough for getting Mogre up and running with the neccessary components. I ran through them all over the last three days or so and they definitely made a nice basic foundation. It felt odd doing the terrain tutorial right in the middle because I don't plan on having any terrain or sky in my first couple aplications; I'm sure I'll come back after years of slaving away writing exception handlers for milk machines.

Anyway, my nose is brown enough from this awful programming tan I've got (godamn lumens), and I have to figure out how to use this godamn bender or blender or fender or whatever program to make some cubes.

End with a question time: Is it Mogre or mOgre or MOgre?

-radianIW

End with a question time: Is it Mogre or mOgre or MOgre?
Heh, use whatever you like but my personal preference is 'Mogre' because of the symmetry:

OGRE -> Ogre -> big green monster
MOGRE -> Mogre -> an Ogre that lives underwater (runescape reference)

is runescape a game from you, bekas?

is runescape a game from you, bekas?
No, I searched around to see if 'Mogre' meant something and runescape came up; I think they 'invented' the Mogre race

haha, ok,

good that MOgre finally found its ancestor.