Installing
From Blender2crystal
There are three install methods (+ a dirty one).
ArtistInstall "No hassle" installation for windows i386
For people who just want to model or do scripting over celstart and using windows (but not 64 bit systems).
Regular installation instructions for the rest of us
Debian Packages Debian/Ubuntu
You can use the available packages at b2cs repository.
Manual installation on Ubuntu 64bits > 9.10 and more for blender 2.49
1 ) get last blender2crystal version
svn co https://leapingcat.org/svn/blender2crystal/trunk blender2crystal
2 ) get "your binary CELstart version 1.4 on http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Download
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/downloads/contrib/celstart-1.4.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
3 ) Dependency with blender 2.49 CEL 1.4 Python 2.6 (some are optional but to be sure :p)
sudo apt-get install crystalspace python-imaging python-libxml2 python-4suite-xml blender python-all-dev
4) unzip the tar.bz2 file and go inside it then test your installation with the following command
export CRYSTAL=$PWD
export CEL=$PWD
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib":$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
./viewmesh
then if you have a warning about "libpython2.5.so.1.0" use the following command and retry
ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so libpython2.5.so.1.0
5) copy "script" folder from blender2crystal svn on ./blender/script
6) create a special launcher for blender using blender2crystal your script have to be put in celstart folder and launch from there.
export CRYSTAL=$PWD
export CEL=$PWD
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib":$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
./blender
7) test script under blender file=>export=>crystal
Todo blender2crystal for blender 2.5 (python 3.1)
