estherau posted at 10:34AM Fri, 15 January 2016 - #4245116

Hi, my guess is the way macsavers is using this software is by just booting into windows eg parallels or some other emulating software where you really have to install windows. but I've been trying my best to avoid really putting windows on my mac. Crossover just makes windows software think that the software is on the mac when it isn't, which would have been a much better solution for me, however I can't get it to work (although I may be doing something wrong I suppose). Perhaps if you make the software not needing poser and python, but totally stand alone, then it might work in crossover.

Since Python is Poser only, there's not way to make it work with Daz, but Python works on the Mac and Windows. The problem is how it hands off the information. On Windows it requires elements that the Mac doesn't have. Until we have a working Mac version of VWD, there's no way to get it working. I also have Crossover and have tried several options to try and get it to work, but there are just certain underlaying elements in VWD that just don't work yet via Crossover. As great as Crossover is, there are quite a few programs, mostly niche programs like this, that don't work well with Crossover.

VWD has stated though that he wants to create a Mac version. It's just not his focus right now as he needs to get the first version out the door and then work on the options from there. While I detest Windows with a passion, for many reasons, there are some types of software that require it. if you own Poser you can install it on a Windows Virtual partition, so outside of needing Windows, there is no extra cost for it. What a lot of people fail to realize though is that if you want to run Parallels and/or Fusion, you are supposed to own a copy of Windows. So it's not a cheap solution that many think it is. There is a free virtual solution for Windows out there. I believe it's a port of Wine from Linux. I tried it once, but it didn't do very well, but that was years ago.

So, if you want to use it now, you'll have to find a Windows solution. No one said being a dedicated Mac user was easy. It's just more rewarding. ;-)