NERO Exercise Instructions

This is an earlier exercise and may take some work to get it to work (it was last checked in 2021). But it will be worth it!

NERO Software

You need to download two components:

(1) NERO, one of:
Mac version
Windows version (a possible problem and a fix)
32-bit Linux version (suggestions for 64-bit linux).

(2) tutorial.cs.dso
The same file works in all platforms. You need to save it in your NERO application folder, replacing the tutorial.cs.dso there. That folder is
in MacOS: NERO-2.0/nero/client/scripts/
in Windows: Nero\2.0\nero\client\scripts (a possible problem and a fix)
in Linux: nero2_linux_i386/nero/client/scripts/

Running the Exercise

Start NERO by double clicking its icon in the main folder, or from the command line. Then click on "SINGLE PLAYER", "SIMPLE TUTORIAL", and hit the spacebar (you don't need to read the story). You'll see NERO loading the sandbox environment. In that environment, there is a text window that tells you what to do. In case you weren't able to install the tutorial.ps.dso file, you can follow the text here.

Towards the end of the exercise (e.g. after step 27) you may want to test your team against teams that other people have created. NERO comes with a number of such teams, or you can play against a few teams that people attending this tutorial created; you can get such teams from here; download a team file, place it in nero/data/saves/brains subdirectory, and then select it as an opponent in the battle mode. If you want to contribute your team to this archive, please email it to risto@cs.utexas.edu.

Last modified: Sat Nov 9 18:58:14 CST 2024