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Running the Baballonia source code

This page covers how to download and run the source code for the Babble App.

0) Prerequisites​

To get started, you will need to install:

  • git
  • git-lfs
  • A copy of Visual Studio 2022 or Rider 2024+

1) Downloading The Babble App​

Navigate to a folder where you would like to install the Babble App.

Then, open a terminal in your folder. Make sure its current directory matches the folder!

Now, run this command to download the Babble App to the folder:

git clone https://github.com/Project-Babble/Baballonia.git

You will need to clone this repo's submodules.

2) Downloading the right SDKs​

Both Visual Studio 2022 and Rider 2024+ will detect and prompt you to download the proper SDKs for build the Babble App.

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Unless you plan on doing mobile development, feel free to unload the Baballonia.Android and Baballonia.iOS projects.

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Unless you plan on adding features to the VRCFaceTracking module, you can unload the VRCFaceTracking.Baballonia, VRCFaceTracking, VRCFaceTracking.Core, and the VRCFaceTracking.SDK projects.

3) Building and Running​

Once your tools have installed, you want to build and run the Baballonia.Desktop project. That's it!

4) Publishing​

If you want to publish a standalone installer for Baballonia, download NSIS here, or use your package manager. Then, run the .iss script located at src/Baballonia.Desktop/main.nsi