ABOVE ======================================================================= ABOVE (Autonomous Battle Over Endor) simulates a space battle between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire as known from the Star Wars movies. It was written by students of the University of Applied Sciences Aargau in Brugg-Windisch as semester project in 2004. For further and up-to-date information, please refer to the project web site at http://tgerstendoerfer.github.io/above Praise, suggestions, bug reports or other questions may be directed to https://github.com/tgerstendoerfer/above Installation: ============= ABOVE depends on the following software packages to run: - Java 2 Runtime Engine Version 1.4 or higher - Java3D 1.3.1 see: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/ - Starfire Research Loader3DS (included in the zip file) If the above packages are properly installed, just extract the jar files from the distribution zip file and put them into a directory of your choice. Running: ======== You can run ABOVE manually from the command line by changing to the directory you copied the jars to and typing java -jar above.jar Alternatively, on most systems, you can run by doubleclicking above.jar Thanks: ======= The developers wish to express their thanks to Major A. Payne for the nice starfighter and star destroyer 3D models, Craig Reynolds for his Boids computer model back in 1986, John Wright of Starfire Research for 3DS format loader and of course to Uncle George for the original Star Wars trilogy.