Installation

Macintosh instructions - Apple Silicon “M1”

The current version of Field is Field 43, and is available for download for OS X.

  1. To run Field, decompress the .zip file and move the resulting field_alpha41_m1 folder to your Desktop
  2. Next, open the Terminal (you’ll find it in Applications). And type:
cd ~/Desktop/field_alpha43_m1
./field.sh -file welcome.field2

If you get an security error, follow this advice here.

Macintosh instructions - Older x64 based Macs / Crerar CS Labs

The current version of Field is Field 43, and is available for download for OS X.

  1. To run Field, decompress the .zip file and move the resulting field_alpha43_macos_x64 folder to your Desktop
  2. Next, open the Terminal (you’ll find it in Applications). And type:
cd ~/Desktop/field_alpha43_macos_x64
./field.sh -file welcome.field2

If you get an security error, follow this advice here.

Windows instructions

The Windows build is 43 and is here. You’ll need to download this zip file, double-click on it and select “extract all” to get all of the contents out of the zip file someplace.

Two very important warnings:

  1. To run Field, decompress the .zip file and move the resulting field_alpha43 folder to your Desktop
  2. Next, open the Windows Terminal (ideally) or Power Shell (if you don’t have Terminal installed). And type:
cd ./Desktop/field_alpha43
./field.bat -file welcome.field2

VR is only supported on Windows (although anything that can talk OpenVR / SteamVR is supported; this includes HTC Vive, Valve Index and Meta Quest 2 in teathered mode).

Source code

Field is Open Source! (specifically GPL v3+). Field is actively developed on Github. Formal bug reports, fixes, pull requests, feature requests on Field are always welcome (and, for the purposes of classwork, count as participation).