- - - - - - - - Setting up Visual Studio Environment: 

1.) Open the solution file located in 'rendering -> CSE125G3.sln'

2.) From the solution explorer right click on the solution then...

	a.) Provide command line arguments
		i.) Select properties -> Debugging -> command arguments 
			-->  For Server: server
			-->  For Client: client
			-->  To run a Client and Server on same process: multi

	b.) Ignore specific warnings
		i.) Select properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor
		ii.) Add this line to the end of 'Preprocessor Definitions' (semicolon included) --> ;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

3.) Install all the required packages 
	a.) Tools -> NuGet package manager -> Manage Nuget Packages for solution
		*** NOTE: You might get notificaton 'install missing packages', if so do it and it should install them automatically.

	b.) Install the following...  
		-> glm
		-> nupengl.core 
		-> nupengl.core.redist
		-> spdlog.native
		-> spdlog-native
		-> nlohmann.json

4.) Try to compile and run. If an error shows up saying "assimp-vc140-mt.dll not found", do the following:
  Copy the file assimp-vc140-mt.dll
		-> from rendering/Assimp/lib/
		-> to rendering/x64/Debug/

*** Note: If  you're using a different version of VS (non-2017) see below!



- - - - - - - - Setting up the Visual Studio Environment (non-2017): 

-> Be sure to also follow the setup for setting up VS for the first time.

-> The lab machines use Visual Studio 2017. If you have a different version of VS you'll need to install a few things. 
-> All of the following can be installed using the Visual Studio Installer (it will modify the existing copy of VS).

1.) Windows SDK: 10.0.16299 

2.) Platform toolset: Visual Studio 2017 build tools v=141 

3.) Once installed you can right click the project -> properties -> General. Make sure SDK & platform toolset are correct.



- - - - - - - - Sending Requests to Server without running the client: 

-> You can test the server connection without running the client by using the *nux commands that'll make requests to the server

1.) After running the server input 'nc <host> <port>' into the terminal to make a request to the server. 
  --> You can also run 'nc -C <host> <port>' and it will allow you to write input to stdin and send that to the server.

2.) An alternative would be to use 'curl -v <host>:<port>' 
  --> '-v' for verbose mode, shows the GET request and how the server handles it.
  --> Makes a simple GET request to the server.