Getting the program onto your computer

There are two common situations:

Someone already built it for you

If a developer on your team has already built MeshCraft, they will hand you a single program file (on Linux, simply named MeshCraft). Once you have that file, using it does not require any programming, compiling, or command-line knowledge — everything from here on is point-and-click.

Nobody has built it yet

MeshCraft doesn't yet publish ready-to-download builds for each platform. If you don't have a developer to build it for you, the Developer Getting Started guide has the exact steps someone with a C++ toolchain can follow — it usually takes a few minutes once the required tools are installed.

Opening the editor

1. Start with an empty sceneRun the MeshCraft program with no arguments and it opens a new, empty scene ready for you to build in.
2. Open an existing sceneUse File → Open from the menu bar, or pass a .mc3.xml file to the program when you launch it (a developer can set this up as a "double-click to open" association on your system).
3. Start creatingOnce the window appears, you're looking at the same interface described in the Interface Tour.

Where your work is saved

A MeshCraft scene is a single file ending in .mc3.xml. It's plain text, so it's safe to back it up, email it, or put it under version control just like any document.

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