Tooll 3 - A realtime animation toolkit

Installation

A standalone version is in development. Although it's working already, it needs further clean up and testing. The preview build of the 3.2.0 version can be found here. Please report any issues you might encounter.

This means that you need an IDE, like Visual Studio or Rider, to build and run it. This is free and not as difficult as it might sound.

Dependencies

1. We only test on Win10. But Win11 might work too.
2. If you don't have a .net IDE installed already download and install the Community Edition of Visual Studio v16.11 (or later). In the installer make sure to select the features...
   1. .net Desktop Application development
   2. .net 4.7.1 (on the right side)
3. Install .net 5.0 SDK
4. You might also want to download and install a git client like https://git-fork.com/ . Alternatively, you can install the bare bone git scm.
5. On Windows 10, you also need to install Windows Graphics tools

Cloning the repository

If you don't have a GitHub account

Ideally, it would be better to sign-up. It's free and only takes a minute or so. This will allow you share your changes with the community. If not, do the following:

1. Make sure that you have git scm installed (see above)
2. Right file explorer right click on the folder you want T3 to install in and select Open git bash here
3. Clone: git clone git@github.com:still-scene/t3.git Note: As of 2021-11-05 we no longer use submodules, so you don't have to care about setting up those.

If you have a GitHub account

1. If you have a GitHub account, we recommend using ssh. Make sure you have an ssh-key installed correctly. GitHub has excellent documentation on that topic.

2. With Fork you just clone the repository.

3. If you're using the command line

   git clone  git@github.com:still-scene/t3.git
   

Completing the installation

1. Start Install/install.bat To initialize some dependencies and the default view layouts. If you cleaned your solution with visual studio, you might need to run the install.bat script again.

Building and starting

1. Open t3.sln
2. In the Solution Explorer right click on T3 to open the Properties panel. Under the section Debug, change the Working directory for all build modes to ... This is important, because the Resources folder needs to be on the same logical level as the starting directory. If this is not match you will experience errors like "t3.ico" not found.
3. Start the project in Debug or Release mode

Get Help

To get started read the documentation or watch tutorial videos

If you have questions or feedback, please join us on discord: https://discord.gg/YmSyQdeH3S