[solved] prc being ignored

Scripting Issues
1

I’m trying to set some window options in my game’s seperate .prc file and Panda seems to be creating the window and then ignoring my changes.
I did a search on the forums, but most people seemed to want to change the value during runtime.

class Game(DirectObject):
    def __init__(self):    
        loadPrcFile("configfiles/Config.prc")

        print cpMgr
....

theGame = Game()
run()

The output of cpMgr:

2 explicit pages:
  /c/_SVN/GameTitle/trunk/src/game/configfiles/Config.prc
  /c/_SVN/GameTitle/trunk/src/game/configfiles/Config.prc

2 implicit pages:
  /c/Panda3D-1.5.2/etc/Config.prc
  /c/Panda3D-1.5.2/etc/Confauto.prc

Any ideas?
Specifically, I am trying to change the resolution (not at runtime) and window title.

Thanks!

2

I believe you have to load your PRC file before you import DirectStart or ShowBase. Can you check whether you did so?

3

This was working for me

In the prc file

# change Window Title to verify this config file is used
window-title "Arkhenia Core : Client"
#Panda Stuff
#load_up game specific config before loading panda
from pandac.PandaModules import loadPrcFile 
loadPrcFile("./binaries/config/Client_Config.prc")

# Load up Panda
import direct.directbase.DirectStart
4

Thanks! Loading the config before the direct modules fixed it!

from pandac.PandaModules import loadPrcFile
loadPrcFile("configfiles/Config.prc")

import direct
import direct.directbase.DirectStart
5

Note that Panda also has a convention for finding and loading .prc files automatically. In particular, you can set the environment variables PRC_DIR and/or PRC_PATH (or maybe they’ve been named PANDA_PRC_DIR and PANDA_PRC_PATH in the public build).

David