Installing Ürban PAD

Instructions for downloading and installing Ürban PAD.

Downloading Ürban PAD

Ürban PAD is available as a 30-day free trial with unlimited Collada exports. To get the software, fill out the trial request form on the Evaluation page of the Gamr7 website. You will receive an automatic e-mail reply with download links and installation instructions.

Three separate download links are included in this email:

• Ürban PAD
• A sample City Project
• Mesh Converter (Ürban PAD’s asset importer)

Installing Ürban PAD

Clicking on the Ürban PAD installer icon in the directory location where you saved the trial version will install the software to the path that you specify.

The installers will create two shared directories on your disk:

• the program directory located in Program/Gamr7/
• your data directory, which is usually located in User/AppData/gamr7 (Windows XP), or in User/AppData/Roaming/gamr7 (Windows Vista and Windows 7)

The City Project provided with your trial version includes a basic mesh and texture package that you can use to create your first city.

In order to use your own resources to create cities with Ürban PAD, you will first need to convert them into Ürban PAD’s .egg format using the Mesh Converter). If you work with a file format that is not supported in the most current edition of Mesh Converter, please ask us about conversion possibilities.

The resources configuration explains how to use your resources within Ürban PAD.

City Project Folder

If you are using Ürban PAD for the first time, you will need to create a new City Project or load the trial city project furnished with the trial version of Ürban PAD. (See What Is a City Project? for details.)

When you create a city project, the following folders will be automatically created in the main City Project folder at the location you have chosen to store the city project:

• cities: the cities you have created with the City Designer
• collada: your export from Parcel Editor in Collada format
• crossroads: crossroad templates created with Crossroad Editor
• log: your log files
• maps: the maps used in your city specification
• packages: the folders of meshes, textures, decals, and materials used in the city project
• parcels: activity parcel templates created with Parcel Editor
• resources: your default resources folder
• roads: road templates created with Road Editor
• sectors: sector templates created with Sector Editor
• watermaps: watermaps used in your city specification

A project_config.gcp file is also included. You will need to click this file when opening a city project. This file contains the data necessary to load the project:

Troubleshooting

Warning: Some installation issues were encountered on Windows Vista 64 with ATI graphic card. The interface may not display properly if this is an issue. Please contact us using the Bug Reporting process if this occurs.