🦠 Particle Life App

A GUI for the Particle Life Framework.

• Download (.exe for Windows)
• Documentation

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Run This App From Source

You can easily run this app from the source code.

First, check that you have

• Git installed.
• Java installed, with a version of at least 16 and at most 22. (Check your version with java -version.)

Then, download the source code:

git clone https://github.com/tom-mohr/particle-life-app.git

To run the program, make sure that you navigate into the folder:

cd particle-life-app

Then start the program:

./gradlew run

After some time, the program should launch and you should see particles on your screen. Feel free to mess with the code!

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any problems, ask for help in the #tech-support channel on the Discord server.

• Unsupported class file major version 67 (or similar).
  This happens when your installed Java version is higher than 22. Check your current Java version with java -version. You need to uninstall Java and install a version between 16 (including) and 22 (including). Make sure that after installing the new Java version, java -version actually outputs the installed version. Restarting the computer sometimes helps.

How to make a release

• Confirm that everything is working correctly and check in with others that the current state of the main branch is ready for release.
• Run ./gradlew zipApp from the project root. This generates the zip file particle-life-app.zip in ./build/zipApp/. It includes the Windows executable (.exe) along with other files.
• Go to the Releases section of this GitHub repo and click Draft a new release.
• Click Choose a tag and type the new version name:
  • Prefix the version name with the letter v. Some good tag names might be v1.0.0 or v2.3.4.
  • The version name should comply with semantic versioning. Talk to others if you are unsure about what to choose here.
• Click Create a new tag.
• Set the release title to match the tag name.
• Use the description to summarize the changes of all commits since the last release.
• Add the generated particle-life-app.zip as an asset to the release.
• Click Publish release.