filmstud opened this issue on Jan 15, 2004 ยท 9 posts
filmstud posted Thu, 15 January 2004 at 9:38 PM
Attached Link: Help Poser work on Linux
A challenge has been Issued! Hopefully this will get the wheel turning. Open to everyone. The Community has spoken.from: http://sourcesupport.org/?project=60
*Must be able to install just like the windows version
*Must be able to use all functions and menus, scripts, files, import objects and render (images and movies) without crashes/issues
*Can be through wine, winex, crossover or native port
*Full Documentation and a simple, complete Howto
Optional:
Dual Processor support, Render farm, Batch Render, Addon Applications, Mimic Pro
Good Luck! 
http://www.frankscorner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=346
http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=115&versionId=163
wolf359 posted Thu, 15 January 2004 at 10:35 PM
millman posted Thu, 15 January 2004 at 11:03 PM
Hmmmm. Poser and windoze, both unstable and prone to crashing. Seems like getting rid of one of the crash causers makes sense. windoze being the obvious one to eliminate. I'd love to see it, it would mean I could dump XP and convert that machine to Linux too. Not being a programmer, I can't help there, but, being a Linux user, I can sure as hell root for them.
Merlin posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 1:44 AM
Interesting idea... i thought it was already working with some windows emulators under Linux. I'd like to know if you have results here !
12rounds posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 2:13 AM
I tried using wine some time ago. I was skeptical on the whole concept. I used my Windows-installed working Poser installation as a basis and just tried to get it starting in Linux using wine. Fat chance ... it would simple have required too much work to get wine to accept Poser. I gave up. I'm currently using w2kpro ... and the only reason why I haven't switched to using Linux is ... tadaa ... Poser. Being a programmer I might be of some use, but I'm too skeptical and thus probably only a negative influence to such and endeavor. Getting the damn thing working would be most challenging part ... I mean getting Python installed and Poser using scripts would be a really minor thingie after that.
dontbotherme posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 1:12 PM
12rounds, same here.. Well, almost. I want a linux version of ZBrush, too.
CrystalDragon posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 5:16 PM
Been there, done that. PITA! Penguinisto had poser running for a while in linux, you might want to talk with him. As I recall, it was a pain to set up, and a bigger pain to run. You might want to wait for a port of D|S instead... ~DM
12rounds posted Sat, 17 January 2004 at 2:15 AM
Yeh. Poser being a mac-port to windows originally and having memory leaking problems anyways ... using linux is probably not a remedy for those inherent problems. Also ... thinking the Python scenario again... one would need to use Poser-Python and run it in wine. Python in linux will not do, IMO, since the scripts need to talk to poser and vice versa.
CrystalDragon posted Sat, 17 January 2004 at 2:48 AM
Ok, did some digging...
This has been discussed before, here are the results:
http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1412043