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3. Game launch instructions

MMichotte edited this page Dec 15, 2019 · 2 revisions

HOW TO LAUNCH GAME - INSTRUCTIONS

Be sure to have at least Java JDK 13 installed and added to your PATH environement variable.

Command-line and GUI version

Unix systems (Linux/OSX/...)

Starting the server:

  1. Open your favorite terminal
  2. Navigate to the Server/src folder
  3. Type: ./ServerLauncher.sh -> enter
  4. Follow on-screen instructions

Starting a client:

  1. Open your favorite terminal
  2. Navigate to the Client/src folder
  3. Type: ./ClientCMDLauncher.sh OR ./ClientGUILauncher.sh -> enter *
  4. Follow on-screen instructions

Windows systems

Beforehand:

  1. Be sure to have git-bash installed
  2. Add the the folowing system variable to enable full utf-8 support:
    • Variable : JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
    • Value : -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
  3. Open a Git Bash terminal and change the folowing options:
    • Text -> Character set : UTF-8
    • Terminal -> Type : VT100
  4. Apply, save and quit terminal

Starting the server:

  1. Navigate to the Server/src folder
  2. Right-click -> Open Git Bash terminal here
  3. Type: ./ServerLauncher.sh -> enter
  4. Follow on-screen instructions

Starting a client:

  1. Navigate to the Client/src folder
  2. Right-click -> Open Git Bash terminal here
  3. Type: ./ClientCMDLauncher.sh OR ./ClientGUILauncher.sh -> enter *
  4. Follow on-screen instructions
- * Choose one, running both is similar to running two separate clients!