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Setup and Installation

This page covers the latest version of TiXL. For Tooll v3.9.x follow this guide.

Installation

Download the latest version.

System Requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11
  • DirectX 11.3 compatible graphics card (we recommend a GTX970 or later)

Non-Windows systems

We're working on a full port of the soft as a native app. Til then you can work wrappers to run TiXL:

The TiXL installer will install all required dependencies including .net and Windows Graphic Tools. Just start the installer, ignore the untrusted source warning and install.

Installing with development environment

For developing and debugging C# Operators we recommend setting up the development environment and running it from an IDE like Visual Studio:

Dependencies

If you don't have a .NET IDE installed already, download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition

  • In the installer, make sure to select the features:
    • .NET Desktop Application development
    • .NET 4.7.1 (on the right side)
  • Download and install .NET 6.0 SDK
  • You might also want to download and install a git client, like git-fork. Alternatively, you can install the bare bone git scm.
  • 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 allows you to share your changes with the community. If not, do the following:

  • Make sure that you have git scm installed (see above)
  • In file explorer, right-click on the folder where you want to install T3 and select Open git bash here
  • Clone the repository:
git clone [email protected]:tixl3d/tixl.git

If you have a GitHub account

  • We recommend using ssh
  • Make sure you have an ssh-key installed correctly. GitHub has excellent documentation on this topic
  • With Fork you just clone the repository
  • If you're using the command-line:
git clone  [email protected]:tixl3d/tixl.git

Github desktop

If you use a Github account, but are uncomfortable with terminals, Github provides a pretty good desktop application for that matter.

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