HAHA I’m such a genius ! I’ve figured it out by myself!
It’s marvelous what you can do when you try. And I was determined it wasn’t going to beat me.
Anyway, I went back over the first tutorial (the one that worked) and re-examined, line by line, the Solar System error messages posted above.
It seemed to me, that the problems started when the interpreter tried to load the Solar System models. For some reason it just couldn’t find them.
Yet the first tutorial worked perfectly. So I went into the main Panda3D model directory, and sure enough, the models weren’t there. For some odd reason, they’re installed in a folder named ‘samples’.
So all I did was copy all the files (13 in total) from the first tutorials ‘model’ folder to the main ‘models’ folder and… Viola!!! When I run the Solar System .py file again, it works!!!
I guess I’ll now have to do this for all the tutorials. Ah well, it’s easy enough to do.
I figured I’d post my solution here for anybody else who’s having trouble with the tutorials. Hope it works for you too.
Cheers
PS. I was playing around with the GreetingCard.py, because it too is in the ‘samples’ folder and wouldn’t run when I tried it in the command prompt. I did the same thing with it, copied its model files into the main ‘models’ folder, and it worked a treat, except there wasn’t any sound.
So I checked the main directory, and discovered that there wasn’t any sound folder, so I’ve created one and copied the GreetingCard .mp3 into it. Everything now works perfectly !!! I’m very happy!!!
Just thought you’d like to know.