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rajm · January 16, 2007, 03:22:55 PM

I've now upgraded to 0.9.29 which doesn't appear to improve things much more - but at least it keeps the 0.9.28 improvements

as this problem appears to be common to terragen 2 and world machine I thought I might as well put something in the winehq bug database and so http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7188
I'll see if there are any responses!

Robert

rajm · March 27, 2007, 04:27:23 AM

Bug 7188 (in wine) - which I opened as a result of my previous post in this thread has just been closed as it is a duplicate of bug 2398 and that bug report http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398 has a very good patch attached to it (id=5354 March 14th)
that appears - at the moment to resolve all the flickering and having to force a redraw issues.
IMHO terragen 2 now runs as well as terragen 1 under wine - though I've only been trying it since I built it this morning so I may be a little premature!
I applied the patch to 0.9.33 - you will need to build from source...
0.9.33 seems to have a tendency to shrink the preview window to something rather small - but the patch is good.

robert

efflux · June 27, 2007, 12:23:44 PM

There is a point brought up here about all the mess of far too many Linux distributions.

There are far too many distributions that is true but there is now one distribution that is way out on top. Ubuntu. This is now very prevalent. I use it. It's a excellent distribution. Sort out anything to work on that and you have a whole bunch of potential users.

I'm not bothered about a whole Linux TG GUI because I use a Mac and have a Windows system as well. I just want Linux rendering but Linux will steadily grow for sure. I'm doing all my 2D graphics/photo editing on Linux now. It now surpasses my Mac for this in my opinion.

rcallicotte · June 27, 2007, 03:30:46 PM

Do you mean the quality of the renders are better under Linux?

Quote from: efflux on June 27, 2007, 12:23:44 PM
There is a point brought up here about all the mess of far too many Linux distributions.

There are far too many distributions that is true but there is now one distribution that is way out on top. Ubuntu. This is now very prevalent. I use it. It's a excellent distribution. Sort out anything to work on that and you have a whole bunch of potential users.

I'm not bothered about a whole Linux TG GUI because I use a Mac and have a Windows system as well. I just want Linux rendering but Linux will steadily grow for sure. I'm doing all my 2D graphics/photo editing on Linux now. It now surpasses my Mac for this in my opinion.

efflux · June 27, 2007, 04:40:19 PM

A render is a render so I don't know what you mean there, unless you are talking about the render to screen.

The OSX finder isn't too cool for browsing all your images. Linux desktop is fast. OSX tends to be a bit sluggish. I use Lightzone for RAW photo editing and other images. The Linux version is free. There is an excellent RAW photo convertor for Linux. There are a few good Linux apps for editing 2D graphics. Gimp is good for basic graphics, Cinepaint can do 32 bit stuff and frame by frame movie editing if you want. Inkscape is good for vector graphics. It's all free. I'm also going to construct a web site using Drupal on the Linux box. All the images will be databased there for the mean time.

The Mac is mostly for audio. Macs excel for this now. Logic audio is a fantastic app.

Linux is very weak on video but I haven't done any video anyway.

The Mac is still my favorite machine though but I don't ultimately want that for rendering graphics, if I start doing loads of renders. I have a PC doing nothing except when I use the Windows TG (my one PC CPU is faster than TG just using one of my Mac's cores). I got used to not using Windows and I don't want to go back. I've rebooted this Windows machine numerous times with TG crashes - just one example of why I don't like Windows. This doesn't happen on OSX or Linux - you force quit the app. It doesn't seize up your whole machine. In two years I have never had to reboot the Mac once and Linux is solid as well.

Cyber-Angel · June 27, 2007, 07:31:46 PM

If TG2 is (With the finale commercial edition/s) going to find favor in the production community most notably in the motion picture industry then a port to Linux is really necessary, since many production companies Weta Digital, The Mill, Digital Domain, Dream Works Pictures and ILM to name a few all use Linux based systems.

If Planetside wishes to be a player in the production sector if that indeed is part of the business plan for the commercial exploitation of the TG2 product line then I cannot see how in the medium to long term how a Linux version (For Redhat at least since most of the high-end production software, noticibly Lightwave and Maya have support for Redhat and major production companies such as Weta Digital and ILM look for people with experience with it).

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel

pera · October 16, 2007, 07:31:13 PM

Quote from: rajm on March 27, 2007, 04:27:23 AM
I applied the patch to 0.9.33 - you will need to build from source...
0.9.33 seems to have a tendency to shrink the preview window to something rather small - but the patch is good.

The latest wine works nicely even without a patch ! See http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=2550

security · July 13, 2010, 05:10:31 PM

Wouldn't it be nice to just get a native linux version of terragen?

Sign in this petition, I'm sure it'll help!

http://petitiononline.com/sxiii/

Kadri · July 14, 2010, 02:05:59 AM

Security , you are (maybe) not bad intended but as Oshyan said this is more like spam what you do!
And regarding " Planetside! Wake UP and listen to the community! " you may be right from a Linux point of view but in general Planetside has one of the most user friendly methods in the way as a time limitless functional (very small limited) free version.
There aren't many firms who do this. I couldn't be here in the forums otherwise ; i use the free version !

You could do much better in a new (and 1 ) topic about your thoughts !