[SOLVED] Running LOVE in just terminal

[Pebsie]

As I've coded the server for my current project I've had to use Love2D's functions to, say, find the width of an enemy for collision detection. This means that I need to run love to run the server and I'm having a little trouble. Where it's worked before, it doesn't seem to work any longer. Running the server "game" gives me this error:

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 Could not initialize SDL video subsystem (No available video device)

I thought this might be solved by running it with xorg on a VNC server, but I'm then given this error:



This hasn't ever happened when I've coded servers needing to use Love's functions before. Anyone know of a way around it?

[zorg]

Last i tried (with both 0.10.2 and an older 0.11 nightly) with setting t.window to false in conf.lua, it worked for me.

[grump]

What functions do you use?

Try to disable the window in your game's conf.lua:

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function love.conf(t)
	t.window = false
end

If that doesn't work, you could try to add love as a dependency and run the code with luajit instead of love.

[bartbes]

It may also be necessary to disable the graphics and window modules in conf.lua:

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function love.conf(t)
    t.modules.graphics = false
    t.modules.window = false
end

[Pebsie]

Managed to get it working with the conf file above, both graphics and window set to false. Unfortunately means that I can't use graphics functions like getWidth() / getHeight() for server side collision checking but ah well.

[grump]

You could also try to keep the window and force software rendering instead:

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LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 love game.love

[zorg]

I mean, most games allow you to have the clients have whatever resolution they prefer (multiplayer games), and even then, the world dimensions should not be connected to the window dimensions at all. They should be separate.