Getting Started

GettingSoftware.html: Downloading and compiling the source code. If using Microsoft Visual C++, also see VisualStudioBuildVars.html. Syzygy can be compiled on Windows using the MinGW GNU compiler, and in fact the newer SIP-based Python bindings have only been built with the GNU compiler.
SupportingLibraries.html: Installing and using libraries that add features to Syzygy.
Standalone.html: Running on a single, unclustered, PC.
ExampleCode.html: Running the included examples, where to put their data files, etc.
InputSimulator.html: Emulating a tracked input device (Intersense, Ascension, etc.) with Syzygy's inputsimulator, e.g. in standalone mode.
SystemConfiguration.html: Specifying parameters of a VR system with the Syzygy Database, in both Standalone and Cluster modes. This includes:
- GraphicsConfiguration.html: Arranging display devices. See also Examples.
- PathConfiguration.html: Defining search paths for sound files and texture maps.
- Setting Up, Testing, and Managing a Syzygy Cluster: Configuring a cluster's input devices and virtual computers.

Creating Syzygy Progams

Programming.html: Writing programs using Syzygy's application frameworks.
QuickPort.html: Porting an OpenGL/GLUT-based application, in a hurry.
CompileCPP.html: Compiling and linking C++ programs.
If you're planning on modifying the libraries, see also Compiler Idiosyncrasies
PythonBindings.html: Writing Python programs.
Sound.html: The spatial sound system.
3DObjectFiles.html: External meshes (.obj or .3ds) and animations in.
Navigation.html: Navigating a 3D world in an application.
Interaction.html: Classes and functions for picking, grabbing, and interacting with objects in a 3D world.
PortabilityLayer.html: OS-independent classes and functions for sockets, serial ports, time, threads, mutexes, etc.
RandomNumbers.html: Generating shared sequences of pseudo-random numbers in all running instances of a master/slave application (described in Programming.html).

ClusterMode.html: Setting up PC clusters and running programs on them (see also Configuring Virtual Computers.)
ClusterTest.html: Basic testing of a cluster.
InputDevices.html: Using input devices in a cluster.
InputDevices-Drivers.html: List of supported input devices.
InputDeviceConfiguration.html: Configuring input devices.
PForth.html: The PForth ("Pseudo-FORTH") input-filtering language. A stack-based language for transforming streams of input events (e.g., re-mapping input device button indices).
TrackerCoordConversion.html: How to map the coordinates reported by your tracking device into the Syzygy coordinate system.
Vrtest.html: A "sanity check" application for narrowing down misbehaviors.
AppFeatures.html: Tricks for managing cluster applications using the 'dmsg' command.

szgview.html: szgview is a viewer for certain 3D file formats.
SyzygyEnvironmentVariables.html: A complete listing of environment variables either affecting or affected by Syzygy operation.

InputClasses.html: Arcane details about the code objects that handle input data.
InputFilters.html: Writing an input-event filter in C++. Usually PForth is better than C++.