Installation Setup

Installing Space Teams → Installation & Setup

Up to date for Platform 0.50.0

Written by Connor Jakubik

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Note

We are in the testing phase of our Launchpad installer application. There are several non-breaking issues that a user will probably encounter when using Launchpad at the moment. The .zip download will continue to work but may be set to an outdated version of STP.

1. Ensure you've made an account on spaceteamspro.com.
2. Install the Launchpad installer program.
   1. This is available on spaceteamspro.com after making an account.
   2. Click the Download section.
   3. Click Download Launchpad for Windows or similar for your OS.
   4. Run and complete the downloaded Space Teams Launchpad... .msi installer for Launchpad.
3. Install a version of Space Teams PRO
   1. Open the Space Teams Launchpad application.
      1. Space Teams Launchpad may auto-update itself on startup.
   2. Choose a version out of the Available Versions
   3. Click Install
   4. Tweak settings if you wish. Most important is the Profile Path. This is where the installation of STP will go on your computer. Ensure you have available storage space larger than the size of the version you are installing on that disk.
      1. The default Users/Public folder will typically not require Admin permissions to install or run STP.
   5. Click Install
      1. If you close the installer program without having cancelled or completed the install, there is a risk of leaving the program part-installed. Please contact support@simdynamx.com if you find yourself unable to install a STP release.
      2. Progress information should show on-screen.
4. Alternative .zip download

   1. Download the .zip file of the latest version of SpaceTeamsPRO.
      1. This is available on spaceteamspro.com after making an account.
      2. If the download fails, follow workaround steps here: https://github.com/SimDynamX/SpaceTeamsPRO/issues/171#issuecomment-3947858994
      3. Some customers working directly with SimDynamX may be given access to special versions, which will differ from the version on spaceteamspro.com.
   2. Extract the contents of the .zip file inside your Downloads folder (or another folder where you can modify files).
      1. If your Downloads or Documents folder is hosted on a network, or you use OneDrive, don't extract the .zip there! You may instead extract the .zip into C:\Users\Public\ in order to make sure the Space Teams application files exist locally on your computer.
      2. The folder must not be too deep; long file paths will break Windows zip extraction and the FirstTimeSetup script. You might need to move the extracted SpaceTeamsPro folder up in the file hierarchy to avoid this.

5. Run the Prerequisites Installer for your OS
   1. From Launchpad, click the folder icon on an Installed Profile to open the installation folder.
   2. Double Click on SpaceCRAFT/FirstTimeSetup.bat.
   3. If you get a "Modify Setup" screen with options to Uninstall or Close, click Close->Yes.
   4. If this was your first time ever running our FirstTimeSetup.bat on this computer, run it a second time (workaround for a bug).
6. Run the SpaceCRAFT application
   1. From Launchpad, click the folder icon on an Installed Profile to open the installation folder.
   2. Double Click on SpaceCRAFT/SpaceCRAFT.exe.
   3. If you get an error mentioning StackWalk, it's ok to ignore (close the error popup).
   4. If you get a Windows Defender SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" popup, click More Info, then Run anyway.
   5. If you get a "Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program" alert for letting Space Teams' connection to our servers through your firewall, press Allow access.
7. You should now be presented with a login screen; follow instructions on screen.

Updating Space Teams PRO

Warning

As of v0.49.2, our Update function on Launchpad is currently broken. Installing a fresh version and deleting the old version is recommended.

1. If you made modifications to the files in the installation directory (as opposed to the Local Assets directory), consider NOT deleting the old version until you are sure your modifications have been copied over and work on a fresh version.
2. Follow the Install a version of Space Teams PRO instructions above to install another version of STP.
3. Optionally delete the old STP
   1. Click the gear (settings) icon on the Installed Profile you would like to delete.
   2. Click Delete Installation and confirm.
   3. Wait for a few seconds to a few minutes depending on your disk speed.

Next Steps

• Do the Starting your First Sim tutorial.
• See more instructions and documentation back on the wiki homepage.
• If you want to start programming to create and modify simulation behaviors, go through the docs in the Simulation Development Workflow section.
  • Space Teams works "out of the box" (precompiled binaries, etc) without this extra setup, but it's necessary before modifying code.