ZBrush

[andreas-1]

Hello again everybody.

Just a brief note to telly ou guys that ZBrush works with Crossover Office on Linux, at least for myself and a friend. He's running RH 8, and I'm on RHEL WS 3.0.

Here's what we did:

If you go here, you can download the demo version, which is a good way to try it out and see if it's worht the investment. As for myself, I have not messed with it much other than to get it working on Linux.

http://pixologic.com/download/cdownloadfr.html

Okay, so for my setup, here's what I did:

download, unzip and then place the entire folder here:

/home/maudit/.cxoffice/dotwine/fake_windows/Program Files/

Then, copy the contents of the directory (not the directory, but all of it's contents) to your home directory.

Then, if you are using RHEL 3.0, run this in the command line:

ulimit -s unlimited

Then, run this command:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine "C:Program FilesZBrushDemo_155bZBrush.exe"

Of course, if your stuff is in a different place, this will need to be altered accordingly. For me, this worked great. Now, all I have to do is do all these tutorials and see if I like the product. From what I read, the demo won't import or export, so running the tutorials would be a good way to try it out. Seems pretty cheap too ($399, if memory serves).

Now, I made an alias for this. Trouble was with using the quote within a quote and the character. The trick is straight out of C++, for special characters to preced that special character by a .

So, for me, in my .bashrc, I used this:

alias ZBR="/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine "C:Program FilesZBrushDemo_155bZBrush.exe""

So, then to launch I can just type in ZBR and it runs.

I hope this can help somebody. There's a real problem with getting 3d Paint on Linux, and this might be an option. Amazon paint is WAY expensive for most users, myself included. I have fully legal copies of Deep Paint and Body Paint (yeah, I paid for them, really!) and neither one will run with cx office. So, for the time being, I've had to reboot on the Windows side and run Deep Paint, which of the two I prefer. Well, I prefer except for it's totally buggy behaviour. I find the Body Paint interface not to my liking. So, here's another option, and also one that won't require using Windows.

best,

-Matt

[jiann]

Great sounds good!

What was the stability and speed like during your testing? Many problems?

[user_deleted]

Did you really have to go through all of that? CrossOver Office 2.1.0 has it's own installer. If you experience any buggs then you should let the Codeweavers developers know. Just make sure to copy the exact error and forward it to them in a service ticket.

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/support/

[andreas-1]

Hey,

This was for the demo, which does not actually have an installer. It just has all the folders after you unzip it. It's not that difficult once you set up an alias. Chances are I'll get it once I try it out, then it will be installed as usual with CX Office. But, for the dema, you just have to manually place the folders where they should go. Otherwise, it won't work, at least not on my system. If you try launching it without having the folders in your home directory, it will tell you you're missing those files.

Seems to work fine. Have not messed with it much at all though, but just wanted to let people know that it looks like it works with Linux, which is great.

best,

-Matt