This is a work in progress. The converter will try and convert old legacy VMD based filter channels and extract the python code to assist you in porting the code into Lua.
Iguana 6 channel repos store these vmds in binary format often and so we have to convert these into XML format so that Iguana X can parse these vmds and extract the python code.
So this means we need to access a command line tool called “vmd_tool” which ships with Iguana 6. So you will need to:
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We need Iguana 6.1.5 because it has a copy tool vmd_tool which can be used to convert from the binary format of Chameleon vmds to the XML format. For more information you can right click and read about the vmd_tool here: |
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Install Iguana 6
Set two environmental variables:
CHM_PYTHON_LIB_PATH needs to point to the location of the python libraries files which ship with Iguana.
VMD_TOOL needs to point to the path of the vmd_tool which also ships as part of Iguana 6
This is how I have my environmental variables configured on my own machine:
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In copy pastable form:
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/Applications/iNTERFACEWARE-Iguana.app/Contents/iNTERFACEWARE-Iguana/python_lib |
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Please install Iguana 6.1.5 in the default position if you want to convert channels which have legacy VMD based filters on them.
The converter uses the https://interfaceware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IXB/pages/2665578497which ships as part of Iguana 6.1.5 and Chameleon on windows.
As of today we have not implemented support for this type of conversion on Linux.