Install Island Pilot

At the end of this page, Island Pilot is installed on your PC and ready to open.

Before you start

• A purchase: downloads are reserved for accounts that have an active licence.
• A PC that meets the system requirements.

Download

1. Open your client area: islandpilot.app/account.
2. Sign in with the email address you used to buy. You receive a sign-in link, valid for 1 hour.
3. Click Télécharger pour Windows (Download for Windows).

You get a file named Island Pilot_<version>_x64-setup.exe.

Install

1. Close Island Pilot if it is already open.
2. Run the downloaded file. If Windows shows a warning, see the next section.
3. Follow the wizard, which is in English, to its last page.
4. Tick Create desktop shortcut if you want a shortcut on the desktop.
5. Click Finish.

Installation is for your Windows account, without administrator rights, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Island Pilot. If Microsoft Edge WebView2 is missing, the installer downloads it: it needs Internet.

If Windows shows a warning

At the first installation, Windows may show Windows a protégé votre ordinateur (Windows protected your PC). The installer does not yet carry a recognised Windows signature, and this filter distrusts programs it does not know. It is not the detection of a virus.

1. Check that the file really comes from your client area.
2. Click Informations complémentaires (More info).
3. Click Exécuter quand même (Run anyway).

Danger

Only do this for a file downloaded from islandpilot.app/account. An installer received by message, on Discord or from another site cannot be trusted.

Updates are done from the app: they do not show this warning.

Launch the app

1. Open Island Pilot from the Start menu.
2. The logo is shown for a few seconds, then the guided welcome begins.

Only one window can be open: launching the app again brings back the one that already exists.

Caution

Launch Island Pilot from the Start menu or a Windows terminal, not from another application, such as a desktop assistant. Windows may then isolate what it writes, and its settings reach neither Blender nor UEFN.

Reinstall

Run an installer over the existing app: %USERPROFILE%\.island-pilot and your projects are not touched. If there is a problem at startup, see The app does not start.

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• First launch
• Sign in