wine users - May 2011 - Re: Carrara 6 on WINE 0.9.59, Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, Gnome 2.22.1...

I'm new to Linux and Wine. I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on a logical partition
and tried accessing some of my Windows 3D modelling/machinima programmes in
Wine. Daz Studio and Bryce 7 installed perfectly but then didn't run.
Moviestorm looks like it would run but needs to connect to the website each time
to log in and cannot connect in Wine.

Carrara 7.2 not only installed but also runs! So far it will do everything
except render. The render tab has nothing there. Blank. However, I can load
projects and content, export to various formats, save the project etc. etc. I
wondering how the hell I'm going to make it render a video or even a bitmap.

Other 3D RELATED programmes which have worked for me in Wine:

Sketchup 6

3DSFMM2

Avimator (but it does a weird, scary thing where the screen goes black and I
have to press control-alt-delete to bring the screen back to normal)

qavimator

Makehuman 0.9.1 RC1

Makehuman 1.0 Alpha 5

OpenFX

PovRay

PoseRay

Deep Paint

m3d10.exe

PlantStudio 2.10

Terrabrush

Debugmode Wax (loads 3DS models and manipulates video in 3D space)

Vue7

Sculptris

VisualJockey (can use 3D shapes in video composition)

On 5/22/11 6:13 AM, speculativism wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and Wine. I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on a logical
partition and tried accessing some of my Windows 3D modelling/machinima
programmes in Wine. Daz Studio and Bryce 7 installed perfectly but then
didn't run. Moviestorm looks like it would run but needs to connect to the
website each time to log in and cannot connect in Wine.
Did you install these programs in Wine or try to run them directly from 
the Windows directories?  If you tried to run them without installing, 
this may work for simple programs, like Notepad, but will not work for 
programs that write information into the registry.  Those programs will 
need to be installed in Wine.

Also, the Applications Database has many applications listed in it.  
Please consult it for your programs and see if there is workarounds and 
how-tos for using them.

Thank you.

With Daz Studio and Bryce 7: I installed them both in Wine but then they
wouldn't actually run.

In the case of Moviestorm I haven't tried re-installing it in Wine yet.

John Drescher wrote:
> 
> If you want help post the terminal output on pastebin.com

I'm not particularly looking for help just at the moment. I'm only
posting about what progress I've made so far getting 3D programmes to work
or not.

Here's an update: Carrara 7.2 now works completely, that is to say even the
rendering bit of it. I'm not sure what the problem was but it came right
after "switching it off and on again" as they say. After the machine
was rebooted Carrara works perfectly. As to Bryce 7.2, I copy/pasted a couple of
dlls (dzwrapper.dll and msvcp60.dll) into the Bryce folder and Bryce was then
able to start - but crashed because of a memory read/write problem. Error
message about trying to write to memory address "unknown" or
something.

I'll post more news when there is any. I've just obtained a whole new
suite of 3D software from Autodesk, including 3DS Max and Maya. After I get
these installed in Windows I'll have a go at getting them to run in Wine
too.

speculativism Little bit of advice go through the applications you are trying to
run in wine.

I know the both makehuman have native Linux forms and prebuild binary for
Ubuntu.  Better performance is normally achievable that path.

Also particular information we want always.  What version wine you used that can
be found out by doing wine --verison in terminal.

And what messages applications are putting out when run from terminal.