Installation Setup

Installing Space Teams → Installation & Setup

Up to date for Platform 0.45.2

Written by Connor Jakubik

Also available in video form: https://youtu.be/l_yKOjeK99c?si=HsZtgHIrrev3sozX

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NOTE: We are in the testing phase of our Launchpad installer application. There are several issues that a user will probably encounter when using Launchpad at the moment. The .zip download will continue to work, and we'll make an announcement when the Launchpad installer is ready to use.

These steps will need to be done in full for every newly downloaded Space Teams release.

1. Ensure you've made an account on spaceteamspro.com.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Run the Prerequisites Installer for your OS
   1. Double Click on SpaceCRAFT/FirstTimeSetup.bat.
   2. If you get a "Modify Setup" screen with options to Uninstall or Close, click Close->Yes.
   3. If this was your first time ever running our FirstTimeSetup.bat on this computer, run it a second time (workaround for a bug).
5. Run the SpaceCRAFT application
   1. Double Click on SpaceCRAFT/SpaceCRAFT.exe.
6. If you get an error mentioning StackWalk, it's ok to ignore (close the error popup).
7. If you get a Windows Defender SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" popup, click More Info, then Run anyway.
8. 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.
9. You should now be presented with a login screen; follow instructions on screen.

Note: This process will change when we replace the zip download with an installer/updater program.

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.