can't get anything to work

Scripting Issues
1

I have a problem: When I try to run anything that I’ve made all that happens is a black, cmd type box pops up and then before I can read what it says it closes.

These are the scripts I was trying:

import direct.directbase.DirectStart
run()

and:

import direct.directbase.DirectStart

#Load the first environment model
environ = loader.loadModel(“models/environment”)
environ.reparentTo(render)
environ.setScale(0.25,0.25,0.25)
environ.setPos(-8,42,0)
#Run the tutorial
run()

Does anyone know what the problem is or how it can be fixed?

2

Launch your script from the command line (not from window explorer) and you will be able to read the error msg .
That should guide you to fix it :slight_smile:

3

or run python with -i option, so you’d be dropped to prompt when something going wrong.

4

How do you run something from the command line?

5

ppython -i yourFile.py

6

how do you do the path?

7

“How do you run something from the command line?”

Uh… by typing it in? Run Window’s console, go to the directory containing your script, and run the script using python.

8

Huh , it’s really about the basics and not really Panda3D related.

Ok, to get a start at python using the command line, you can check this video tutorial
showmedo.com/videos/video?name=p … eriesID=49

If you get an error msg saying that python/pptyhon is not a recognized command, you get 2 Options

  1. add ppython.exe in your path
    To do so, there is a tutorial in the manual for windows user
    panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Insta … in_Windows
    (at the very end of the page)

  2. use a full qualified path to your python exe in your command line.
    Ex instead of typing you should type
    <“C:\MyPython\Bin\python.exe” myscript.py>
    Note a) replace C:\MyPython\Bin\python.exe by the real path to your python.exe
    Note b) you must be in the same directory that myscript.py for this to work.