ENIGMA Development Environment

Hey! faissaloo answered all of your questions correctly. I will just add a few more details.

On GitHub you can actually see a list of all recent changes we are making to fix various issues:
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/commits/master

Which has actually been increasing lately:
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/graphs/commit-activity

Regarding the license I am going to have to close that issue. Leave license discussions for the forum and don't post it to the issue tracker unless we decide on changing to a new license. We've had these discussions before and are aware that the open source license of the engine bothers people for obvious reasons.
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=1832.0
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=2296.0
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=1994.0
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=1322.0

Also, please consider the abhorrent nature of YoYoGame's license:
enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=2325

It is unlikely that LateralGM's license or our compiler's license will ever change. They will always remain open source because you are not linking against them. The only debate is about the licensing of the engine which is under enigma-dev/ENIGMASystem. I am open minded but I have largely ignored the issue choosing to focus on fixing bugs instead. If I made a proprietary game with ENIGMA myself I would just go ahead and sell it without fear of Josh suing me because I know nobody here is going to do that. We want people to be able to sell games if we can get to that point of stability. I guess the whole thing boils down is that we wanted to make a working engine before worrying about people doing that.

LateralGM will also gladly accept new contributors, however, we may have to move it over to ENIGMA's repo for continued development because I don't think the project founder is returning. I have merge access but I can be a little slow.

Please run the install.py script again with python3. Please do "python3 install.py" and then follow from there. We don't support 2.7.6, or the script doesn't anyway.

That has to do with a mismatched plugin. I think the method was changed in the plugin or LateralGM and then the other was still calling it the old way. All you need to do is make sure you have the correct plugin and LGM jars, to do that download them individually from the Wiki on the Extra Packages page.
http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Install:Extra_Packages

We are aware the WinPatch needs updated:
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/issues/1010

However, ENIGMA has changed as well since then, so you may want to pull and rebuild it. You could also just try using the portable ZIP for installation, which is what I do. You can still make changes to the source code using the portable ZIP.

Hi! There was a bug with Linux Mint that had the wrong python version which has since been fixed. See this GitHub issue for more details:

https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/issues/968

What python version do you currently have? The install.py script requires Python 2.6 or Python 3+

Running in debug mode should tell you the variables name in a popup window.

Ah that's from TheExDeus making depth buffers optional for surfaces. Here's a simple fix to try:

1) Go to the file ENIGMA/enigma-dev/ENIGMAsystem/SHELL/Graphics_Systems/Direct3D9/DX9surface.cpp
2) Add a parameter ", bool depthbuffer)" to surface_create exactly like that.
3) Save the file and try Direct3D9 again.

He didn't update the Direct3D subsystems when he made that change.
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/blob/483b2c54176df1ff6333a2ecd76f677c2a53d033/ENIGMAsystem/SHELL/Graphics_Systems/Direct3D9/DX9surface.cpp#L62

Please let me know if that works.

Regarding the GLEW file, yes that is the problem, I know for sure now. Your OpenGL does not support anything in GL 3.1 or later and framebuffer object's (the OGL equivalent of Direct3D surfaces) were introduced in OGL 3.2.

GL_VERSION_3_1:                                                MISSING
---------------
  glDrawArraysInstanced:                                       MISSING
  glDrawElementsInstanced:                                     MISSING
  glPrimitiveRestartIndex:                                     MISSING
  glTexBuffer:                                                 MISSING
 
GL_VERSION_3_2:                                                MISSING
---------------
  glFramebufferTexture:                                        MISSING
  glGetBufferParameteri64v:                                    MISSING
  glGetInteger64i_v:                                           MISSING

Your issue with the fading may have been related to the clamping of draw_set_alpha which faissaloo is attempting to fix in this PR:
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/pull/969