Windows

To install TA3D under Windows XP simply extract ta3d-0.5.0.exe into new folder (for example C:/ta3d/), if you have the installer package just run it and follow instructions and run install.bat with TA CD-ROM in your CD-Drive (Ta3d will copy all neccesary files into ta3d install dir).

Or you can copy necessary files into ta3d folder manually (see Main section of this help).

Run ta3d.exe to play TA3D. (quite impressive, isn`t it?)

Note: If you experienced crashes try to reduce water quality to normal or low, that`s because water quality above normal using shaders v.2.0, or adjust other setting to low.

Linux

How to build it yourself

To build TA3D under Linux you`ll need CMake 2.6, Allegro, AllegroGL 0.4.4 (TA3D specific version containing some fixes, available on our website), FMODex 4 and zlib correctly installed and the source package of TA3D. The GCC compiler with C++ support(g++).

To compile TA3D type in a console:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ./
make
cpack -G the_package_generator_you_want_if_not_DEB_or_RPM

then you can install the package if required dependencies are ok, or just run "make install" as root

To install TA3D resource files run install-sh with TA CD-ROM in your CD-Drive (It will copy all neccesary files into ta3d install dir). To run TA3D:

./ta3d or just click the icon installed in your desktop menu

How to install a prebuilt package

Prebuilt package are now available for Linux, both 32 and 64 bits packages. We also have our own repositories for Ubuntu and Mandriva for both 32 and 64 bits OSes which contains the required dependencies (Allegro, AllegroGL, the FMODex library). Ubuntu repositories are here:

Stable releases

deb http://www.ta3d.org/apt/ stable main

Development packages

deb http://www.ta3d.org/apt/ testing main

For Mandriva users, just click the following link: http://www.ta3d.org/urpmi/ta3d.urpmi-media

NB: if those packages don't work on your system (complains about something missing or incompatible) you can try to build it from the source which is available from our SVN repository.

To run TA3D:

ta3d

or just click the icon that should appear in your desktop menu