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I am platform independent. I have a PC, and a Mac, and my Pc runs linux and windows… soooo I kinda have all my bases covered.
So how are the 64 bit editions of maya and photoshop running on your mac? Wait, they arent… very few companies have true equality across operating systems.
I could go down the list of products that lag behind for the Mac OS platform.
Many companies don’t even make versions for the Mac.
Its about revenue… there are a small fraction of the number of Mac users that there are PC users, not enough money is generated to have it up and running full speed on the first step. With Zbrush at least they are actively working on it.
It could be worse… you could prefer Linux, talk about being out of luck.
I wasn’t giving anyone a moral lesson, its just economics and reality amico.
Thanks Pixologic !!!
Thank you Phallus
Sorry friend, but ZB isn’t even close to being a new product on the Mac side. Zbrush has been on the Mac since version 1.23 (and maybe earlier?)
Honestly, I’m not even worried that 3.5 isn’t native for OS X right now, I just want to give it a whirl, even as a trial in Bootcamp. I thought a while back that Pixo gave Mac users the option to do that, but maybe that has changed? Wasn’t there something where they gave you a temporary Windows license?
Nope, that is wrong; you are paying for a zbrush license. If Pixo wants to have two distinct platforms then they should advertise clearly as such. Right now we are playing this leap frog game that is not good for anybody. GoZ shouldn’t even be a consideration since the entire idea of such a feature is dependent on using another application. I have no use for GoZ what so ever as I only use zbrush. I would much rather have my zspheres work as they should.
It is also true that they are not the only company that is having problems with its Mac base like this but that doesn’t mean that it is normal or acceptable. There are companies out there that are smaller with far less people that are doing just fine with it.
windows users went on a rampage when the release of 3.5 was a week late and the Mac one has been late far a few months already not to mention that 3.5 was suppose to come out for the Mac first to make up for zbrush not functioning for years. But that is not even the point.
The fact is that this is a pixologic problem and they are handling it poorly. I think all they have to do is make it a dual license. If not then they should make it clear that they are supporting two distinctly different applications. It is completely unfair for one user base to be paying the exact same amount of money for less features and support and squabbling amongst the user base solves nothing. This application is a tool; a means to an end. The unfortunate thing is not that one has more features than the next it is that it serves to separate a user base that is stronger as a whole. The zbrush community is one of the strongest—if not the strongest creative communities out there. It is easy to forget in times like this but we are all here because we have a love for sculpting and 3d. Not to compete against other platforms.
I have no doubt that Pixo will one day get everything sorted out and working smoothly. But until then the community does have a right to complain and voice it’s opinions. Which in the long run will help pixologic grow.
Well,
" hic Rhodos, hic salta"
Immaturity?
- Please wait some years …
First of all:
I simply do not understand why some WIN users think, they are part of a problem some Mac users (including me) have with Pixo’s release strategy. The simple fact is, that a special group of customers (using a strange OS) is a bit angry. A (especially a “small”,) company should be very sensitive to customers’ feelings.
So, the only thing I miss in this discussion is a statement of the owner of this site. Many (Mac) users posted their critics here - they got no reply. Win users got support instead in this thread.
( being moderator somewhere else: “hmmm”)
@ “you’ve got what you’ve paid for”:
If one sells a product, at least in my primitive knowledge, future promises (or advertising announcements) I´ve given (with or before a contract) are part of the contract. (I bought zbrush 4.0 being announced as a free upgrade) - No need to discuss some laws - Remember the meaning: company
@ goZ and promisses
GoZ - This feature is simply speeding up some workflow. With “save” “open” “save”… you (also on WIN) can do the same (slower) wokrflow. (BTW: workflows can be automated also using external ways … using my OS ( which?) I´m not surprised to find this feature in 3.2 )
Oh… forgot: Are WIN users able to export a turntable (or other movie)?. A MAC user surrenders ( ok- we know, for we asked for support, that a update´s coming soooon with a 3.5 (if this will see some MAC-light) or maybe a 4.0)
@equal rights
In my opinion Pixo’s release strategy is a significant economical deficit for those (economic) users working on a “strange” OS. The only problem is that Pixo sold to customers of a “strange” OS.
Sorry for disturbing the common “hurrah”
does anyone know how to use the polypaint blend modes?? Also does R2 suport paint layers?
Sorry,
NO
being a MAC user
You will find a slider in:
Brush>Alpha and Texture>Polypaint Mode
Holding Ctrl while hovering your mouse over the slider will tell you what each mode is.
That’s not whining. Whining would be more like claiming that one can’t even call what a Mac user currently has is Zbrush. It’s more like a demo with save and exporting but a bunch of other features that aren’t available yet. I understand why Pixologic isn’t concerned with the Mac market. Mac users should know that they will be treated badly by this company.
Well, some windows users “whine” when they have to wait just a single day for the link to their latest upgrade to appear in their email, so I think you could be a little more sympathetic to a group of people who have had to endure repeated delays, missed deadlines, and have had to endure many months without a single word about their upgrades. 
Yeah, Bas Mazur, you’re right. I really dont want to get into a flame war here. I was really hoping we were past all this crap after the last fiasco.
Lets make a discussion what we will make when we finaly have the new update. I think I will use the new ZSpheres a lot. You too?
Yes. That’s one of the new features I’m looking forward to most.
First couplet of the Mac-whining song:
The plugins like ImagePlane and ZAppLink
A blurbrush to use in twopointfive-dee,
We realy miss a lot don’t you think
Because we don’t have a peecee.
(Blues)
I am waiting for the new zspheres myself; more than anything! I would even welcome a small pacth that would fix the zspheres in the mac version—even without the zsketch option, if it were possible. zspheres are the only real problem that I have with zbrush right now and I can’t wait for the new zspheres to make their way to the Mac.
Hmmm, here no problems with ZSpheres. Only with rendering, crash, crash, crash…, and while sculpting.
You can make articulate fingers or teeth with them? Cause it appears thats what the new ones can do.