hi john,
man. it took really long for me to set up ofxOpenNI too. ):
don't give up! it took me days but now it finally works!
here's what i learned:
- you have to have the latest unstable versions of OpenNI and NITE installed
- there are different versions/forks of ofxOpenNI and some seem to work with different openframeworks versions. (i agree that it's strange they seem to be last developed in 2011/2012) anyway this one was the one that ended up working (for me) (i use openframeworks 0.8.4 but you can also get the newest version from github)
- there are always tons of linker errors in xcode when i tried to compile the ofxopenni examples... make sure the libs and header files are linked correctly in xcode! (build settings > header search paths > add all folders with header paths!). sometimes it worked when i just dragged ALL THE *.lib files directly into xcode (though there's probably a more elegant way to do this)
in order to get the gameoverhack/ofxOpenNI version running:
- copy the "example" folder into [openframeworks-dir]/apps/[your-apps-dir]/
- you'll need to copy the 'lib' folder from 'ofxOpenNI/mac/copy_to_data_openni_path' to your 'bin/data/openni' directory of your example
- rename the folder of the example you want to try to "src" (instead of e.g. "src-UserAndCloud-Medium")
what OS are you on and what OF version are you using?
what's your error message?
my project has to be finished in two weeks too. i hope we can both make it! :>