The fastest way to get started with Bonsai is to grab the prebuilt binaries from the Latest Releases page. Windows and Linux are supported.
Bonsai ships with several pre-built example projects, under the bin/game_libs
folder. To run an example, simply launch bin/game_loader.exe and select the
example from the menu presented. Alternatively, you may specify which example
to run from a command line as an argument. For example,
bin/game_loader.exe bin/game_libs/terrain_gen_loadable.dll
The terrain_gen example provides users with a convenient playground for
experimenting with terrain generation. Just fire up your favorite editor,
navigate to shaders/terrain/shaping/default.fragmentshader, and edit away!
Terrain shaders hot-reload, so you have a fast edit-compile-run loop for
experimentation.