Obtaining and running the demo

Requirements

The demo runs under the PathEngine testbed.
Refer to this page, for information about the general requirements for running the testbed.

Obtaining and running the demo

The demo is packaged as a zip archive, 'playableDemo_MM_mm.zip' (where 'MM_mm' corresponds to the PathEngine release the demo is built against). To install, simply download this archive (from the PathEngine downloads page) and unzip the contents into a newly created directory.

(Note that releases of the SDK may be made without affecting the playable demo, so it is common for the version numbers of this package to lag behind the version numbers of the current SDK release.)

No installer or uninstaller is provided because no registry or other system changes are required in order to run the demo. When you've finished playing the demo, you can simply remove the directory you created to completely remove the demo from your system.

To run the demo double click the file 'run playable demo.bat', in the SDK root directory.

Troubleshooting

Don't run 'bin/testbed.exe' directly. This is the PathEngine graphical testbed executable. If you run this directly then it will complain about a missing dll and then exit.

Note that it's possible for executable files in downloaded archives to be 'blocked' by certain versions of internet explorer, which can then cause the demo to fail to run.
If this happens then the problem can be solved by right clicking the SDK archive after download, and 'unblocking' through the resulting UI.