NerdDemos

This repository lets you test Nerd!

If you don't know what Nerd is, go check it out! :D
The compiled JAR is right here for you to test without needing these build steps!
But if you want to go the developer way,

Note: Please finish reading first!

Don't perform anything described below till you've had a good read-through!

Getting All The Code:

Clone this repository. That's git clone https://github.com/Brahvim/NerdDemos/ on the command line, if you like to use it!
Once you've cloned this repository, you'll have a folder!
cd into that folder, and clone the following two repositories there (any order works, okay?!):

• TheNerdProject, which is the actual engine - mostly wrappers on Processing that can be used standalone!
• NerdExtraModules, which has moving parts of the engine such as the 'scenes-and-layers' framework, the ECS, and in the future, the OpenAL, Box2D and Bullet Physics API wrappers.

You've downloaded only ~90 MiB so far. And that's all there is! 🎉

Dependencies

• Please go to the path where you installed Processing, and find inside it, core/library.
  ...Copy all'a that into Dependencies/Processing/libraries (yes, with a small l)!
  Except...

...You could totally be saving disk space using a symlink instead for this one.
In fact, you should do that for all of these directories! (Unless you want to test with different versions!)

On macOS and GNU-Linux, that's:

ln -s modes/java/libraries/ Dependencies/Processing/libraries

...And on Microsoft Windows, it's this:

mklink /D modes/java/libraries/ Dependencies/Processing/libraries

(Notice how you have to reverse the paths on the latter one!)

• Then find modes/java/libraries in that very Processing installation directory.
  Copy (or link!) all of that into... let's say, Dependencies/Processing, inside this repository's directory.

Building And Running!

I use the Microsoft VSCode IDE to write and build Nerd, so that's what I'd recommend you to do, too.
Feel free to deviate, though!
I don't have a Bash/Batch script to auto-build across toolchains yet, sorry!

What you should know, is that:

• I use OpenJDK 17 from https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/.
• I provide an Eclipse-style java-formatter.xml in the .vscode directory.
• I use jbockle's "Format Files" VSCode extension.
• I use the "SonarLint" VSCode extension.
• I use the "cSpell" VSCode extension.

With all of that, you should be able to build and run! ^-^
Blame me if this doesn't make it work. I'm sorry[!] that I haven't tested these steps on every configuration ever!

Wishing you good luck,
- Brahvim 😌