 Sear
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Sear is a 3-D client for use with the WorldForge project. It requires a 3-D accelerated graphics card supporting Open GL.

Please visit website for full instructions. 

Website: http://www.worldforge.org/dev/eng/clients/sear

Please report bugs on the Sear forum at http://forums.worldforgedev.org/

Simon Goodall

Email: sear@simongoodall.co.uk
IRC: irc.worldforge.org NICK simon

Windows Information
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Run sear.bat to check for updates to Sear itself (nighly build versions) and then look for media updates. Sear-bin.exe can be run directly to avoid launching the updater.
If "SYS_DRIVE:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Sear" is available (e.g. Win 2K and above) then Sear will download media updates and local coniguation files in this directory. If this directory does not exist (e.g. Win 98) then updates and local configuation files will be stored in the current working directory.
Sear does *not* require administrator privileges to install or run. Administrator privileges may be required during installation if installing into Program Files.

Linux Information
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On Linux systems, a shell script called "sear" is used in fire the updater for Sear itself (nightly build versions only) and for media updates. The binary sear-bin can be run directly to avoid running the updater.
Local configuration files and updates will be stored in $HOME/.sear

Known Issues
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 On Ubuntu systems, Sear can fail to start due to the following error:

Creating link /home/sg/.kde/socket-echo.
can't create mcop directory.

  This can be worked around by setting the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable
  before starting Sear. E.g.

  $> SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa /opt/worldforge/bin/sear


Dependencies
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Atlas: 0.6.0
Eris: 1.3.12
Varconf: 0.6.4
WFmath: 0.3.2
Skstream2: 0.3.1
Mercator: 0.2.4
LibModelFile: 0.1.92
Sage: 0.2.0

http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldforge

SDL 1.2.2 
http://www.libsdl.org/

SDL_image 1.2.1
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image

SDL_mixer 1.2.4
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

libsigc++ 2.0.x (not 2.0.8)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsigc/

Lib3ds 1.2.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lib3ds/

OpenGL 1.3 or greater

Cal3D 0.11.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cal3d/

Guichan 0.6.0
http://guichan.sourceforge.net/


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