OpenGL 2.1 maybe?

[prenex]

I am just asking. Is there anything really necessary for opengl 3.0 as a requirement? My machine only supports 2.1, but would be awsome to have sims on this old linux laptop :-)

Just asking because the game itself is mostly 2D anyways so I am wondering why is GL3.0 is really necessary.

[prenex]

You can answer in technical terms. I am developer too.

[francot514]

If you have tested 2.1 and confirm it works, i could change it, i have no way to confirm since Monogame uses 3.0 for Linux build

[prenex]

Oh I see. So you mention GL 3.0 only because Monogame needs it.

If I read it well here:
https://community.monogame.net/t/unknown-error/10482

• then actually monogame either needs 3.0 or either ARB_framebuffer_object or EXT_framebuffer_object extensions. I have checked the latter two extensions and glxinfo seems to report them as if I have them.

I will give it a try. So I suspect I need to install latest monodevelop and monogame then try building / running your app. I will report back if I have any questions. Btw I use arch32 linux for now and have Radeon Xpress 200M which is a DX9 compatible card.

Ps.: Currenty I develop a really sims-like house / office planning software for a foreign company. They should have added characters and gamified it like sims, but they do not want to haha. Maybe once, but it is "serious software" so understandable. Yet it refreshed me looking for sims on linux and the lot of box copies mom has about sims ;-)

[francot514]

Let me know if works good on linux, and you can run it, seems need to extract files from TSO and Sims complete version for it.

[prenex]

TSO I do not have. Is it free?

My main problem is that I cannot even install monogame properly on my box... 32 bit arch linux does not seem to be best supported by them...

Monodevelop addin wants to add a bunch of 64 bit shared objects which surely does not help.... did they remove 32 bit support from development with monogame? (I guess not from games, but maybe for tools and the dev env?)

[prenex]

Also it seems to me the addon wants Monodevelop 6 and I have 7.x latest. I have no idea this comes up just because I am using 32 bits and is bogus message or I should downgrade.

I would glad to reach out to them on their monogame forums, but I cannot register because they have some issue in the registration system on ther forums lol :-)

Not lucky day to build this so far on my box :-)

[prenex]

Is there a way to build this without monodevelop? Like from the command line? I am not a pro when it comes to monogame or mono. I think I maybe installed monogame but not the monodevelop addin as that does not work for it.

I still have an old XNA 4 game of mine laying around that I never finished but was quite big amount of code, but never got to port it to monogame anyways because a lot of content pipeline hacks were not supported and code is old anyways... So I mostly develop non-C# these days :-)

[francot514]

Only enviroment i can say works is using Monodevelop, you have Wine alternative but that not for compiling. You can grab TSO (The Sims Online) files from internet.

[prenex]

I got a *.exe file after doing an "xbuild" in the "SimsVille" directory and installing monogame from arch AUR...

Oh I also had to rename some directories:

git mv World/model World/Model
git mv sims.common/content sims.common/Content

^^Because of course linux is case sensitive. Now I get runtime error when I "mono SimsVille.exe" as it does not find some paths:

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path '/home/prenex/install/FreeSims/SimsVille/bin/Debug/game/TSOClient/housedata/roofs'.
  at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1[TResult].CreateDirectoryHandle (System.String path, System.Boolean ignoreNotFound) [0x00032] in <c4bddbfe864a4b8191bb818d6b204e9d>:0

Is this something I need to get from the sims online maybe? Maybe this "game" directory should point to a sims install or a TSO install?

[prenex]

So even though monodevelop maybe is in bad shape at least I might be able to have built it and all it needs is game files?

[francot514]

Yes the path "game/TSOClient/housedata/roofs" refers to a TSO game installation files, you need to have that in there, and it should allow to run properly.

[prenex]

I am downloading TSO files, just it takes extremely long from archive.org.

I will report about what happens if I have all the files, but I feel I have hopes. If error message will be similar I will also add Sims1 files somewhere from an earlier full install path.

How full is the feature set for this reimplementation btw? Is it more far-from-complete or more near-complete?

[francot514]

I should udpate with a preview image, but is near to complete in terms of engine implementation

[prenex]

TSO_Installer_v1.1239.1.0.zip

^^How big is this file? I have no idea to tell what download percentage I am at, but I am at 298 Megs...

[francot514]

Add me to discord Franco514#3874 to continue talking about this (Game size is 1.4 GB). Closing issue here.