The Brad Hole

Powerful Jedi are you! : )

uh.. what Quake 3 SDK? The only one I've ever been able to find is the Win32 release. I would have loved to do my Q3 modding on MacOS X.

There's a JK2 SDK on the JK2 CD, the Jedi Academy one is linked above, the Elite Force SDK is on Aspyr's FTP and the Wolfenstein SDK is around somewhere too. You can extrapolate all the others from those without much effort.

Awesome! Thanks for the Mac SDK, I've been having people ask about Mac ports for some time.

Please let jediknight.net know about the news so they can post it on their website.

how i open this file?
can i compile this code on windows or linux OS and build code for MAC?

what programm is required to compile the code for mac?

"what programm is required to compile the code for mac?"

Xcode

yes i saw it reading your files
but my problem is that Xcod is only for MAC user

i don't have MAC, but i would like to compile my JA+ MOd for MAC using compiler running on windows or linux

is it possible?

yes but is is possible to compile this MAC sdk using a compuiler that run on windows or linux
because i don't have MAC...

yes but is is possible to compile this MAC sdk using a compuiler that run on windows or linux
because i don't have MAC...

"yes but is is possible to compile this MAC sdk using a compuiler that run on windows or linux"

No, the Mac SDK is Mac-only as far as I know. You'd need a PPC cross-compiler for x86 at the very minimum.

is it possible to compile this SDK for MAC OS with a compiler that run on windows or linux?

because i don't have mac

oops sorry i couldn't see my posts
so i reposted several times

and now i see all
sorry

what is a PPC cross compiler?

A cross compiler is a compiler that runs on one machine, but generates code that runs on a completely different type of machine. For example, I believe Codewarrior used to let you compile a C++ program for Windows on a Mac, and vice versa. But: just being able to compile for the other platform isn't necessarily enough; all the libraries the code uses must be available for compiling with.

I think a simpler approach might be to find a Mac developer to help you. I'm guessing that the Mac Jedi Academy SDK is similar programming-wise to Windows Jedi Academy SDK. If so, it would be easier to have a Mac developer port your PC-developed mod. I'm just guessing though.

is it possible to emulate a MAX OS X on a virtual environement from my PC and install XCODE on this virtual computer mAC and then compile this SDK for mac?

Not really. I believe there was a product recently announced to do just this, but it's by no means done and it runs incredibly slowly, basically unusable. And you'd still have to buy a copy of OS X 10.3... You'd be far better off buying a used or refurbished Mac to compile on.

Again, if all you want is the SDK and you have a PC, use the PC SDK. Either get a Mac developer to help port the mod, or buy a cheap Mac. Just my opinion.

What Matt said. If you want your mod on the Mac, I'd be happy to port it over for you. If Lucas and Raven can trust me with the source code to the entire game, then I can't imagine there would be any issues with 3rd party mods. :-)

What do you do with the .bundle file that is created when you build the mod in xcode? How do you make it so you can distribute it like a pk3 or something like that so you can use it without moving all of your dlls.

Finally, something for Mac that all the PC users are lusting after. No one would help out Mac with JKII, it's nice to see this for JK3.
Macs are a dominant computer anyway.

Thanks for the contribution!

Brad, that would be awesome if you could port Slider's JA+ Mod. There are quite a few issues, particularly with the client-side plugin, that don't allow mac users to access half mod's features.

I would try to port it myself, but I've never really used Xcode and you could probably do it with one hand tied behind your back. Anyway, if you'll do it, thanks so very much. But if you're too busy, I'll just have to try to learn how to use Xcode.

I don't know if this is a bug or not, or just an issue with the code not working on a mac, but when I compile the cgame bundle and try to test it it freezes. Building the ui or jampgame bundles do not do this, they work fine. Don't know if this can be fixed.

Wahoo! Wahoo! well done! Yay! Mac SDK! Hooray! Yay! Mac rules! You da man! Yay! Go Mr. Brad Oliver, sir!

I see now, the Forcemod 3 team was trying to us ethis sdk on a PC, and thus thought it had bugs :/
It's one of the best mods out there, if you could help them too, that'd be great, I'll give them the link to this site.

Hey Brad, I'm the author of a mod called ForceMod III - I was wondering what is involved in porting code to the Mac. Can it simply be done by compiling existing code with XCode on a Mac? I heard there was a problem with the 3rd person view crashing the Mac SDK, which is why I haven't attempted a port yet.
I've had many requests for a Mac version, and if there's any way a stable release candidate can be built, please contact me at ibidetalitis (at) yahoo.

Thanks for your consideration.

hi,
i saw that there were patch for mac academy version that solve some stability issue

i think this mac sdk does not take in consideration the new patch right?

"i saw that there were patch for mac academy version that solve some stability issue

i think this mac sdk does not take in consideration the new patch right?"

The SDK was released long after that patch. What's more, the SDK is just an open-source means of building the shared libraries, which weren't affected by the patch.

If you could help Azymn that'd be great, his Forcemod III drastically improves the multi-player experience, and us mac users would like it too.

OK, thanks to =X=Master HeX, maker of Xmod, there's a solution:
1) Open cg_view.c
2)find "static void CG_UpdateThirdPersonTargetDamp(void)"
3)and add above it
#if MAC_PORT
   float Q_powf ( float x, int y );
     #else
   float powf ( float x, int y );
   #endif
so that you have:
  #if MAC_PORT
   float Q_powf ( float x, int y );
     #else
   float powf ( float x, int y );
   #endif
      // This is called every frame.
      static void CG_UpdateThirdPersonTargetDamp(void)
      {

The fix works!! Yeah!! Thanks redsaurus (and =X=Master HeX)

You can now get the fixed cg_view.c at pcgamemods.com - http://www.pcgamemods.com/6923/

http://www.pcgamemods.com/6946
correct link

Wow, good catch. I just finished up with KOTOR, so I'll take a look at this now. At first glance, it seems like you need to do a more global approach for the DLLs (e.g. something like #define powf Q_powf) but I'll investigate a little closer.

Are you by chance running 10.2 instead of 10.3?

I'm running 10.3

I'm on my Mac right now - I only have 10.2, XCode is for 10.3 only, right?

It should work with ProjectBuilder fine - I used it with that for a while.

Hey Brad, I saw your post on the freepository forums. Did you ever figure out how to access the CVS Repository? I've been trying and wanted to know if you found out how.

Never mind I figured it out.( I used eclipse )

For those of us who do not code, is there anyone planning on creating a site for converted JA mods for mac?

Also, is there anyone converting the JA+ clientplugin for the mac?

Anybody looking for JA+ for Mac, follow this link and vote...

http://japlus.fragism.com/gl-bin/forum/viewtopic.php?t=926

...You have to register before you can vote.

"For those of us who do not code, is there anyone planning on creating a site for converted JA mods for mac?"

Yes - should be up reasonably soon

Yippee! SDK for Mac finally!