Installation

Macintosh instructions - Apple Silicon “M1”

The current version of Field is Field 41, 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_alpha41_m1
./field.sh -file welcome.field2

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

Macintosh instructions - Older x64 based Macs

The current version of Field is Field 41, and is available for download for OS X.

  1. To run Field, decompress the .zip file and move the resulting field_alpha41_macos_x64 folder to your Desktop
  2. Next, open the Terminal (you’ll find it in Applications). And type:
cd ~/Desktop/field_alpha41_macos_x64
./field.sh -file welcome.field2

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

Windows instructions

The Windows build is 41 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_alpha41 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_alpha41
./field.ps1 -file welcome.field2

If you get an error about not being able to run PowerShell scripts then take a look at This Answer.

VR is only supported on Windows (both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive / Valve Index are supported).

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).