ArtiSynth Installation Guide for Linux

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Prerequisites
• 3 The ArtiSynth installation folder
• 4 Java JDK Requirements
  • 4.1 Ensuring the JDK is visible to your system
• 5 Installing a Precompiled Release
  • 5.1 Running from a terminal window
• 6 Installing from GitHub
  • 6.1 Installation using Eclipse
  • 6.2 Installation using the command line
• 7 Loading and Running Models
  • 7.1 Using the Models menu
  • 7.2 Other ways to load models
  • 7.3 Viewing and interacting with models
  • 7.4 Command line arguments
• 8 Creating and Adding Models
  • 8.1 Model packages
  • 8.2 Compiling models
  • 8.3 Finding models in the model menu
• 9 Settings and the user configuration folder
• 10 Integrating external models
  • 10.1 Making ArtiSynth visible to the compiler
    • 10.1.1 Eclipse development
    • 10.1.2 Command line development
  • 10.2 Making external models visible to ArtiSynth
    • 10.2.1 Running from Eclipse
    • 10.2.2 Using the external classpath
    • 10.2.3 Setting the CLASSPATH environment variable
    • 10.2.4 Using the -cp option
• 11 Installing artisynth_models
  • 11.1 Installing a precompiled release
  • 11.2 Installing from GitHub
    • 11.2.1 Installation using Eclipse
    • 11.2.2 Installation from the command line
• 12 Updating ArtiSynth
  • 12.1 Library updates
• 13 The Eclipse IDE
  • 13.1 Installing Eclipse
    • 13.1.1 Setting Eclipse to use the correct Java JDK
    • 13.1.2 Preventing excess resource copying
  • 13.2 Importing external projects
  • 13.3 Configuring environment variables
    • 13.3.1 Setting environment variables
  • 13.4 Command line and JVM arguments
    • 13.4.1 Setting command line and JVM arguments
  • 13.5 Adding projects to the build path
  • 13.6 Adding projects to the ArtiSynth launch configuration
• 14 Additional Information
  • 14.1 Adding Directories to the System Path
  • 14.2 Environment variables
    • 14.2.1 Example environment set up for bash
    • 14.2.2 Example environment setup for csh or tcsh
  • 14.3 ArtiSynth Libraries
  • 14.4 The EXTCLASSPATH File
  • 14.5 Quick Git Summary