/sigh
please guys, cut the badmouthing out … or use private messages!
Carsten, that’s all I have been asking all along.
Quality of the vine is visible in the fruit it bears.
If you want peace, leave the guns at home.
Amen, SuperGlitcher. And patiently suffering a bully only empowers them - an excess of mercy is as bad as an excess of severity.
But on the other hand, perhaps I am indeed a disfunctional emotional retard. Perhaps I’m just not able to rise to a sufficient intellectual and spiritual level to grasp the Kosher’s well-meaning, humble insights. I’m not OBJECTIVE. Yes! That’s it! I’m blinded by irrational arrogance, and I think the world revolves around my pathetic, delusional self-worship. I don’t really give a **** about anyone, and will dump my trolling, asshat comments anywhere I please, because I know most smart people are too polite or busy to call me on the carpet for it, especially if the ****ing moderaters are preoccupied with their own PR disaster to permanently block a monstrous troll like me from the entire forum.
Not.
I don’t normally leave notes in forums like this, but I do read these threads often as I anxiously, yet patiently wait for Z3 on my mac. I just wanted to voice that for me these threads have always been a source of camaraderie with my fellow mac-based users. When I read through I never TRULY get the sense that we’re anti Pixologic, or here to bash anyone. Actually, this has always felt like the right place to let off some steam. The only times I ever really get the sense that there’s TRUE hostility is when someone comes in, under the guise defending Pixologic, and starts complaining about complaints. Isn’t that a bit self defeating? I’m just saying that for some users this is a helpful way to vent and talk amongst ourselves, so to speak. So is it necessary for those who don’t need that to come in and make these threads more of a serious issue than they really are? I’m not trying to fan the flames, I’m just wondering am I alone in seeing these threads as a good, healthy pressure release mechanism? And if it’s not for you, then wouldn’t it just be easier to ignore us?
You might have the wrong time zone set. In Date and Time properties, there is a tab for zone…make sure it’s correct. Windows XP will also synchronize the time with time.windows.com or time.nist.gov. You can turn this off by going to the Internet Time tab in Date and Time properties and unchecking the option “Automatically synchronize with an internet time server”.
I’ve given up on the wait again and reinstalled Parallels. I was trying to get VMWare Fusion working but the converter said I had a virus. I did a clean install and Fusion crashed. It happened after checking some kind of graphics performance boost when I probably shouldn’t have because I’m on a black macbook and my graphics card is lame.
The latest Parallels build seems to be running Zbrush fine. I installed my Wacom tablet driver and enabled the pointer trail in the Mouse options…wait a minute. My pen is traveling all over the Windows screen…woah. It’s pretty erratic. I guess all of the bugs haven’t been ironed out. The driver is probably freaking - I’ll restart Windows and see if that works. It’s fine now.
I don’t know about the rest of you tards
I just want z3 
(comrades!)
…and go to gnomon live 
seeing new art and news on a mac release is why i come in most times. glad there’s awesome new art coming in all the time. 
Super Glitcher & MattWoods: you’re like a stereophonic voice of wisdom…
if it is that hard,they should of never said it will be here by april 
they should of posted a time window they can handle…2-3 yearss 
then we would have no reason to keep checking this site for a osx zbrush3 release or decent post from a pixolator explaining whats going on with a 1 year+ offset release time between peeeee-c and mac.might as well give us zb4.feel sorry for noob macsters going to the main site and in excitement buying zbrush3 and then finding out they have to use the old version because the new version is nowhere insight for mac
my friend is a programmer for a huge multiplatform 3d app.and they hit their hit their e.t.a’s each version
goodluck zbrush mac beta people
Si vis pacem, para bellum… (if you want peace, prepare for war).
Sorry, I had nothing more constructive to write.
Patiently (?) waiting, like anybody else. I was wondering, when did Pixologic release Mac code for the last time???
I too am waiting, sometimes not so patiently, for zb to come out on the mac. I just got a new mac and don’t want to put windows on it. So until it comes out, it looks like I’m getting a lot of practice with Maya .
I want the Mac release too. I have a mac all ready for ZB sitting with my 46" LCD screen and Wacom tablet, ready for playing. I think a certain amount of frustration is fine and good, but when others start insulting people over technology, it’s inappropriate. Besides, if the market, and consumers for that matter, haven’t learned by now that software has bugs, viruses, and missed target release dates, then that’s just sad - I do hate hype but come one, tell me that Mac doesn’t have more hype than anything right now. Macs have bugs just like PCs but you don’t see me sitting here writing about how much I hate Macs each day.
When I said you guys were being sensitive, I didn’t mean it as a put down. When you purchase a product that says you can use it on a PC until a Mac release is ready, that’s what you pay for (not an official release date).
There are other products, which many have mentioned in defense of the lashing out at Pixo developers, but you know that those products are magnitudes less complex.
I never claimed to know so much about algorithms and mathematics, I was simply pointing out the complexity of ZBrush as a software platform, which is easily overlooked when a tool is designed so well. I know this tool targets artists so I wanted to make a statement to the effect that it’s sometimes not easy to see how difficult it is to create these tools.
I don’t know jack about software development. However it seems a little weird that I can run zbrush with my mac hard drive, memory, and proccessors perfectly under windows via bootcamp, but not OSX. Obviously, the operating system is the issue. Every other dual platform app I’ve used also involves crazy mathmatics, so that’s a weak excuse. There must be some crazy obstacle beyond just saying there’s a lot of math involved, I mean c’mon. There’s a lot of math involved in Maya, too. It seems very few companies are being this held up by OSX, so what’s the big deal?
Allow me to add that this just means I’m a dumb artist and not a computer programmer. I know nothing about the difference in the operating systems and how that comes into play when making software, so excuse my ignorance! It’s just hard for me to comprehend it being THAT different of a proccess between systems when so many apps are cross platform.
Right now I just wish Pixologic would come out and answer some of our questions. The cryptic “Zbrush 3 OSX is coming soon” e-mails are losing significance as the months pass, because we’ve been getting “Coming Soon” since the fall. For all we know “Coming Soon” could mean two years.
I just wish they’d give us an estimated release date that we can hope for and they can work for. And if they overshoot the release date, fine, they can do the math and put forward a more appropriate street date. Then they need to check their lists of all the Zbrush 2 Mac owners who are eligible for the upgrade and send them the announcement. (BTW, if this ends up being Zbrush 4, will the free upgrade be tossed out?)
I would love to think that the release will coincide with Siggraph, but with the response (or lack thereof) we’ve been getting, I doubt it.
I just came back from my 1 week vacation in the Dominican Republic. The first thing I did was come to read this thread hoping to be surprised. But I see that we’re still playing the waiting game. :mad:
They have given us dates and missed them, as you probably know. In February when they said they were going to release it, they began beta testing it instead of just releasing it. Probably a smart move. Obviously something has kept them from releasing it for this long. At least it’s close.
We should all be pretty well jaded at this point-
there has to be some way to graph aniticpation
falloff, after x days you only check the thread 5
times a day, after x months only once a day etc.
eventually you should become totally numb and
realize that you (and by you I mean I) have no life.
I agree. Its just plain exhausting.
Come on… lady luck!
Maybe soon the stars will come right, and the great Z-old one will show its head.
Maya seems to be a fairly complex application and yet, they’re on time with PC, Mac and Unix versions. How does that happen?