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Installing Modo on Windows

To install Modo on Windows, see either:

Installing Modo with the User Interface (UI), or

Installing Modo from the Command Line.

Installing Modo with the User Interface (UI)

To install Modo using the default UI, do the following:

1.   Download the correct .zip installation file from our website at www.thefoundry.co.uk.

A zipped folder is installed to your preferred download location.

2.   Double-click on the file in the installed folder to install Modo.
3.   Follow the on-screen instructions in the MODO Setup dialog.

By default, Modo is installed to drive letter:\Program Files\Luxology\modo\901.

4.   Proceed to Launching Modo on Windows.

Installing Modo from the Command Line

To install Modo from the command line, do the following:

1.   Download the correct .zip installation file from our website at www.thefoundry.co.uk.

A zipped folder is installed to your preferred download location.

2.   Extract the file to a preferred location on your machine.

A folder with the .exe file is created in that location.

3.   Open a command prompt window, by selecting Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
4.   Use the cd (change directory) command to move to the directory where you saved the installation file. For example, if you saved the installation file in C:\Temp, use the following command and press Return:

cd \Temp

5.   To install Modo, do one of the following:

To install Modo to the current directory and display the installation dialog, type the name of the install file without the file extension and press Return:

MODO_901_<SP#>

To install Modo to a specified directory and display the installation dialog, use the /dir install option:

MODO_901_<SP#> /dir=“C:\Modo”