Error when running tutorial code

Sorry for the noob question. I looked all over the forum and saw a bunch of problems relating to the tutorials, but none of them match the one I am having. (Running WinXP btw)

I have PyOgre 1.2 and the correct demo media archive. PyOgre is in C:\python24\lib\site-packages\pyogre and the demos are in C:\python24\pyogre\pyogre_demos.

It gets through initializing the config window and everything fine, but afterwards, I get this error in the console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "beginner_1.py", line 72, in ?
ta.go()
File "C:\Python24\pyogre\pyogre_demos\tutorials\SampleFramework.py", line 23, in go
if not self._setUp():
File "C:\Python24\pyogre\pyogre_demos\tutorials\SampleFramework.py", line 39, in _setUp
self._chooseSceneManager()
File "C:\Python24\pyogre\pyogre_demos\tutorials\SampleFramework.py", line 79, in _chooseSceneManager
self.sceneManager = self.root.getSceneManager(ogre.ST_GENERIC)
File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\pyogre\ogre.py", line 18702, in getSceneManager
return _ogre.Root_getSceneManager(*args)
TypeError: in method 'Root_getSceneManager', argument 2 of type 'Ogre::String const &'

Don't know what the deal is, but I don't seem to be doing anything wrong. Anyone know? Thanks!

Looks like the old pyogre1.6 or pyogre1.2 problem to me.

look for the 'getSceneManager' line in either the sample framework or the tutorial code (from the error, i can see its line 79 in the sampleframework). For pyOgre1.2 you need to 'name' the scenemanager, so it should say something like:


self.sceneManager = self.root.createSceneManager(ogre.ST_GENERIC, "sm")


You need to have a string as the second argument in the scenemanager constructor. From the error you've posted, that looks like the solution to me , hope it solves it for you.

Hey, thanks a lot! That worked.

Might I suggest that someone modify the wiki (or better yet, the demo_media distribution) to reflect this? Thanks again.

I look forward to joining the OGRE community.