photon-main

Main software for Photon Laser Tag

Contributors

Username	Name
HaplessGnome	Joey Davenport
Ecoffman1	Ethan Coffman
funcRandy	Randall Wade
nickjachim	Nicholas Jachim

For Graders

To run a release of the Photon Laser Tag software from GitHub:

1. Navigate to the Releases page on the Photon Laser Tag GitHub repository.

2. Download the latest release:

   • Find the latest version and download the .exe file.

3. Make the file executable (for Linux):

   • After downloading the .exe named "Photon", navigate to the folder containing it in your terminal.

   chmod +x Photon

4. Run the exe:

   ./Photon

Install Requirements

1. Install required system packages (for Debian-based systems):

   ./dev_setup.bash

2. Create a virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   On Debian:

   source venv/bin/activate 

4. Install Python dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. For devs to build:

   pyinstaller main.spec

Run the Program

To start the program in venv:

python3 main.py

To start the program after being built navigate to /dist and use ./Photon (on the executable)