LeagueSandbox User Guide

LeagueSandbox.md

Preparing the Workspace

You have to do this only the first time, you want to start the Game!

1. Download and install Git and make sure to tick the option "Use Git and optional Unix tools from the Command Prompt" while installing.
2. Open your desired installation directory in your File Browser
3. Open the Terminal in that folder (Shift+Right Click in the directory and click "Open Command Prompt")
4. Type in the following Command: git clone https://github.com/microsoftv/CustomLeagueSandbox.git and press Enter
5. Wait for the process to finish
6. Do these commands in the following order and wait for them to finish before starting the next one:
   • cd CustomLeagueSandbox
   • git submodule init
   • git submodule update
   • cd GameServer
   • git submodule init
   • git submodule update
7. Download the League of Legends 4.20 Patch
8. When the download is finished, extract the directory in the .tar.gz-file, using e.g. WinRAR, into the following folder: <Installation Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox
9. Ensure, that there exists a directory <Installtion Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox/League-of-Legends-4-20
10. Download Visual Studio Community
11. Install Visual Studio Community and be sure to check ".NET Desktop Development" and ".NET Framework 4.6.2 Development Tools" for installation.
12. Open the file <Installation Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox/GameServer/GameServer.sln with Visual Studio
13. Press F5 and if any errors pop up, press "No"
14. Press Ctrl+Shift+B
15. Press F5 again. A black window should open. Wait for it to say "Unable to find League of Legends.exe. Check the GameServerSettings.json settings and your League location." and close it then
16. Open the file <Installation Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox/GameServer/GameServerConsole/bin/Debug/Settings/GameServerSettings.json
17. Set the String after "clientLocation" to "<Installtion Directory>\\CustomLeagueSandbox\\League-of-Legends-4-20\\RADS\\solutions\\lol_game_client_sln\\releases\\0.0.1.68\\deploy" (Replace of course and be sure to use double Backslashes!)
18. Go to Visual Studio again and press F5 again.
19. The black window should pop up again and a short time after that, a League Client should open and League should be loading and take you ingame

Changing Game Settings

1. Open the file <Installation Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox/GameServer/GameServerConsole/bin/Debug/Settings/GameInfo.json
2. Here you can change many things: Your champion, your username, rank... You can even turn minions and cooldowns on!

Starting League Sandbox again

Whenever you want to start League Sandbox again, follow these steps:

1. Open the file <Installation Directory>/CustomLeagueSandbox/GameServer/GameServer.sln with Visual Studio
2. Press F5