Freezer 3D Graphics Engine for Cell BE

[billb]

I haven't had time to check this out yet (busy playing Red Dead Redemption ) but it looks interesting:

http://github.com/fgalea/freezer#readme

[Iguana]

Will there be any way to get this to work any time soon?

[Iguana]

Will there be any way to get this to work any time soon?

Actually never mind, I've read it more carefully and it can be compiled together... I think....

http://github.com/fgalea/freezer#readme

Setup
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- If not compiling Freezer from a tarball, you first need to create the
required autotools files by running the bootstrap script:
$ ./bootstrap
- Configure and build the library:
$ ./configure
$ make
- As the system administrator (commonly known as 'root'), install the library:
$ make install

Create your own programs
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For the moment, the documentation is somewhat nonexistent. You still can read
the comments in the code, or start and try to compile and execute the example
programs in the examples/ directory.

Though, I was wondering if you "Billb" could add it to the PS3Bodega repos?
Or we have to compile it ourselves, somehow?

[suddar]

yes this would be kick ass!!! but will it work on 6.1?

[ppietro]

yes this would be kick ass!!! but will it work on 6.1?

Since it's being distributed as source code - and you have to compile it yourself - sure.

Cheers,
Paul

[suddar]

im going to need some help doing so if somebody could give me a step by step that would be great

[Iguana]

im going to need some help doing so if somebody could give me a step by step that would be great

I think that there are examples for compiling programs around this board somewhere, but other than searching them up, it would be nice to have a step-by-step explanation of compiling this specific programs...
Please

[suddar]

yeah please id love you guys forever

[ppietro]

HOWTO: Compiling, step by step.

Cheers,
Paul

[Iguana]

One last question. Since the files are on that website, how do we download or get them to go on our ps3s'? Because I didn't see any downloading option there.. Or do we some-how while compiling pull/fetch the the files using some type of terminal commands?

[billb]

One last question. Since the files are on that website, how do we download or get them to go on our ps3s'? Because I didn't see any downloading option there.. Or do we some-how while compiling pull/fetch the the files using some type of terminal commands?

The download link is in the upper right corner of the page. Here's a direct link to it:

http://github.com/fgalea/freezer/archives/master

Note that this is a library for use in creating your own programs and it includes some example code with very little (or no) documentation at this point.

[Iguana]

One last question. Since the files are on that website, how do we download or get them to go on our ps3s'? Because I didn't see any downloading option there.. Or do we some-how while compiling pull/fetch the the files using some type of terminal commands?

The download link is in the upper right corner of the page. Here's a direct link to it:

http://github.com/fgalea/freezer/archives/master

Oh, I guess I didn't see it, because I was kinda speed-looking threw the site..

Note that this is a library for use in creating your own programs and it includes some example code with very little (or no) documentation at this point.

Well that's ok, I'll try to compile it, untar it, and I'll see if i can run the freezer program so I can have at least some software 3d acceleration and I'll post back within two to six weeks (because I'm grounded for the time being), unless someone makes it work and shares their findings here before I try to do something...

HOWTO: Compiling, step by step.

Cheers,
Paul

Also thanks for posting the compiling page, because that was the page I was referring to as an example...

[ouasse]

Hi, I'm the author of the Freezer engine. It basically is the engine for the retrostation demo, in the form of a shared library. I released it in LGPL in the hope it's useful to some people, and also in the hope some will contribute to the effort.

So basically the documentation is quite weak, I'll try to improve it during the next bunch of weeks. For now you can have a look at the example programs in the examples subdirectory.

I insist on the fact that the library is mostly dedicated to developers, and I guess non-developers won't find much of interest in it, except for trying and running the (very simple) sample programs.

I'm not really used to working with YDL, but basically what you need to download and setup the library is git, autoconf, automake, libtool, make, the g++ for ppu, gcc for spu (spu-gcc), and the SDL development files (headers). Developers should know which YDL packages correspond to these tools.

to download the source code, just issue the command :

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git clone http://github.com/fgalea/freezer.git
cd freezer

then, just do what the README file says :

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./bootstrap
./configure

If any of the previous command fails, this is certainly because one of the required tools I listed above is missing. If everything goes smoothly, you can issue a :

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make

command. After that, even without installing, you can try and compile the example programs :

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cd examples
make

You should end up with a bunch of various executable files, each demo program coming in three variants, with _sdl, _ps3fb and _bmp suffixes. The SDL version is preferred when running in windowed mode, the ps3fb version is for runnnig from console mode (720p mode maximum, press escape to exit), and the bmp version is just a test program to generate the images in bmp-formatted files, not really useful unless when debugging (or using the cell simulator when away from your ps3 ).

If you have trouble about autotools/configure/make stuff, there is plenty of documentation and help pages on the web.

If you have questions about programming the library, you can ask

[Musoka Eimin]

I was just coming over here to let you guys know about this, glad its already known. Anybody even checked out his retrostation demo yet? I'm looking forward to giving this a shot. Unfortunately I am in the middle of preparing a move, and it will probably be a good month before I get re-situated, equipment back up, and have the time. Looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts. Great work and thanks for your work.

otherOS lives on through us.
Musoka

[Iguana]

(because I'm grounded for the time being)

I was wondering, what's the general comparison between this "Freezer 3D Graphics Engine for Cell BE" and the "Mesa Cell Project"?
Even though I haven't tried the Mesa Cell thing yet and I won't be able to try this until about 2,3,4 weeks from now, and I know that there isn't much documentation on the Freezer for Cell BE and that the Mesa Cell Project seems to work somewhat well for the ps3 linux users here, but I'm just wondering what a general comparison would be(since they both work on the ps3)..
Also, which one would be a better choice?

[EDIT] Ooo, I found this site http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12981 where it has a little bit more detail (but not much) on the Freezer for Cell BE project... P.S. I think that the site doesn't work sometimes..