Help setting up Asset Converter

[warren]

Hi All,

I'm new to Gameduino, and I'm most definitely new to Python. I have been at it for hours trying to install and use the Asset Converter.

SO... I managed to install Python. Then, after a bit of a struggle, I installed "easy_install"(HA!).
And then I tried the "gd2asset". I see it, but I can't seem to make it give me something other than errors.

I've tried:

C:\Users\Warren>gd2asset 'gd2asset' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

And I added the .py extension to the filename, and I get this:

C:\Users\Warren>gd2asset Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Python34\Scripts\gd2asset.py", line 4, in <module> __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('gameduino2==0.1.4', 'gd2asset') File "C:\Program Files\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-12.4-py3.4.egg\pk g_resources\__init__.py", line 698, in run_script File "C:\Program Files\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-12.4-py3.4.egg\pk g_resources\__init__.py", line 1622, in run_script File "C:\Program Files\Python34\lib\site-packages\gameduino2-0.1.4-py3.4.egg\E GG-INFO\scripts\gd2asset", line 40 print 'ERROR: unknown format "%s"' % format                                  ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

All this is extremely frustrating when all I want to do is add a couple of sprites to my program.
It would be great if there were a tutorial for setting all this up, then using it.
It would be greater still, if there were a simple single tool for doing this, perhaps a GUI?

Well, I'm thankful for any help I can get.
Sincerely,
Warren

[jamesbowman]

OK, you are not the first person to have hit this situation!

Agreed, installing Python is a big hurdle for Windows users (Mac and Linux have it already).

So I have tried to build a Windows executable. It would be great if you could give it a try:

excamera.com/files/gd2asset.zip

unzip it and run gd2asset.exe - it should work just like the pure Python version.

[warren]

It seems to work as far I can tell. I'll put it to use this weekend.

Thanks for the quick reply!
Warren

[warren]

So, this has been working great for me. This should be posted for everyone!
I'm an electronics kinda guy, but I still managed to work the command line and figure it out. Still would be nice to have a tutorial.

[tftlcdcyg]

Great EXE James!. THX

Finally my simple-test with only 3 icons of 48x48 px

#include <SPI.h>

#include <GD2.h>



#include "icons.h"



void setup() {

 GD.begin();

  LOAD_ASSETS();

 GD.wr(REG_GPIO, 0x82);

 GD.wr(REG_PWM_DUTY, 95);  //0-128  intensidad de la retroiluminación XD

}



void loop() {

 GD.Clear();  

 GD.Begin(BITMAPS);

 GD.ColorA(140);

 

 int x = random(0,432), y = random(0,224);  //432 = 480-48px, 224 = 272-48 px , dimensiones de cada icono= 48x48 px

 GD.Vertex2ii(x, y, 0); //

 

 x = random(0,432); y = random(0,224);

 GD.Vertex2ii(x, y, 1); //  

 

 x = random(0,432); y = random(0,224);

 GD.Vertex2ii(x, y, 2); //    

 

 delay(250);

 GD.swap();

}
Images

[jamesbowman]

Glad it worked. Looks good!

[donziboy2]

Hello james, ran into the same issues with running Python and have also run into issues using the .exe. When I double click the exe it appears momentarily then vanishes and I get a small default_assets.h file in my directory. Is there some trick to this I'm missing?

[MangyDog]

donziboy2
You need to run the exe from command line. There is no user interface so it appearing then closeing is just the program starting up with no commands send to it... and finishing its run, cmd promt just automatically closes when a program finishes when its loaded this way.

Run the exe like you would the python script with the same arguments.

[powersoft]

When I won't to prepare my font I get the fellow output :











What is doing wrong?

[jamesbowman]

Please can you send me digital7.ttf and I will take a look at this bug. Thanks?

My email is [e-mail], or open an issue here:

github.com/jamesbowman/gd2-asset/issues

Thanks very much.