If there is no particular reason for you to use SOAR terrain, then you are far better off with either
- static terrain (that’s what I am doing),
- the built-in HeightfieldTesselator (https://discourse.panda3d.org/viewtopic.php?t=2113),
- or PGMM (https://discourse.panda3d.org/viewtopic.php?t=3028).
Anyway, about your questions:
No. Last time I compiled this has been for Panda3D 1.3.2. So you have to compile and link against the current version of Panda3D if you want to use it.
I never compiled for Linux. Only for Windows. See the first post in this thread.
(1) Make up your mind where (horizontally) you want to place the object ==> x,y
(2) Find out the terrain height at this position ==> z
(3) Place the object at (x,y,z)
(4) You might consider placing the object a little bit lower (z - delta), to compensate for slopes.
I don’t understand this one. Please explain some more.
A Python C++ extension is used like every other module. Place it somewhere in your Python search path and the simply import the module. Until you know what you are doing: place the .dll in the same directory like the Python code which uses it.
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