you know, I would buy two licenses if they had a version for linux. No joke linux was my platform for years and I had no trouble cause I used maya and sometimes blender. photoshop 7 worked in wine…
but then I bought a mac… and I love it. I still use linux on my desktop but the MBP is macOS only.
I don’t know if the above was joking cause this is a mac thread. but considering the time it’s taking for a mac version I could see a linux version coming in oh… 15 - 20 years.
We have no 3.1 version for the Mac Platform yet, so Linux version maybe would come on 2030 :lol: :lol:
Kind of late, old post. WinTab is only if you have wacom or similar, ignore if don’t. My wacom is ok.
My only windows drive has been dying for some time. It refuses booting more and more frequently. Some day it will die and take my hwprinted lics with it. So if wine runs ok the next month, I’d like to transfer my lic. Zbrush is my only reason for windows.
Wine 1.0-1 (winXPmode), Zbrush 3.1 trial, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005sp1 libraries, NVIDIA 9755, kernel 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5, centos 5.2.
I got a chance to test my wacom by another install of the ZBrush demo on Wine (1.1.7 on Ubuntu 8.04). My wacom works fine. Pressure is working. It’s an old graphire. I did had issues in the past and I can’t say what to do if you have a problem now. I didn’t do any real configuration of any kind this time but it can work.
Still however, I have not purchased a licence of ZBrush. Was going to get the Mac version but I’m not now buying another Mac (I’d need to, I have a G5). Instead I will be getting a top notch PC running Ubuntu. So why am I not buying ZBrush yet - because I’m using 3D Coat now. It works superb on Linux (Wine), Mac and Windows.
Hi
It’s already posslible to use zBrush with Linux. Or under Linux. I just downloaded the trail version, set up a WinXP Virtual Mashine with the free tool Virtual Box. Then I installed zBrush into this virtual Windows system running on my Linux. And it’s running very good,
of course I didn’t try all fetures yet, I’m just starting to use zBrush, and you may have a less good proformance … with my quadcore there is no problem but people with less good systems may have some trouble.
Greetings and hope I could help
Naxanael
PS: Sorry for my bad english:-P
I hadn’t thought to try it in a virtual machine. Good idea. However, I was hoping for native support. Using a windows VM still requires a person to own a copy of windows to create the initial image. I wanted to be free and clear of MS 
Also, you don’t need to apologize for less than perfect English. Many of us here can only manage one language while you are working with two! I can’t number the times I’ve attempted another language and stopped after getting nowhere.
Welcome to ZCentral, Naxanael! You are going to love Zbrush. Even if it is a Windows app
I have used zBrush in my Windows VM on my Ubuntu Linux system for some time. It works as well as it works on the Mac in Parallels or VmWare Fusion; which means that some things are broken like zMapper. zMapper requires OpenGL hardware support, which doesn’t exist in Fusion or Parallels. I am not sure on all the VM options in Linux. I have been using my Fusion machine on my Linux system.
neilford
ZB works very nice in most VMs because it doesn’t heavily depend on lots of OS-native/driver-dependent kind of things with the notable exception of Zmapper. I’ve been able to run it almost every virtual Windows environment I’ve tried, as long as I leave Zmapper alone. Zmapper really seems to need the laters Windows implementaiton of OpenGL to function properply.
Just my experience, YMMV.
-K
No VMs, No WINE, No Excuses. Pixologic, Nevercenter, and Luxology…one of them will crack soon!
I know Pixologic are working hard to bring parallel release for mac and win. I would love you forever Pixologic and have your babies for a Linux release…ta
Hi, the VM I like to use is VMWare Server, it has 3D acceleration support from the host OS’s drivers, the OGL apps Ive tried work just fine
O hell ya!!! Ubuntu practically installs itself and vista updates render my comp useless. Good thing I have learned my lesson and ordered a new drive for vista and kept my xp x64 hard drive just in case.
Seriously Ubuntu is really nice since 8.10 and zbrush is like the only reason I still put up with windows’ stupid crap any more.
Have you tried installing vista 64-bit lately? It aint fun I can tell you that.
FYI Zbrush 3.1 works fine using VirtualBox on Linux, including Zmapper since there is OGL support.
I’d like a Linux version but I’d love the OSX version to be stable and fully featured (i.e. Zapplink etc) first. At last OSX is a *nix variant that is more easily pipelined and integrated into a Linux studio
Cheers,
Peter B
I am trying to make ZBrush3.1 work on the Virtual Box 2.2.2. under Fedora 11.
Generally it works fine, but there is quite a few drop down menus that take forever to drop down or for stuff to fade in. Sculpting itself is fine.
The Windows XP 64-Bit is on best performance settings (before all fade in’s were also incredibly slow, but with the bp settings the OS works now nicely, or at least as nice as Window can run), but still with the delays in the ZBrush display it’s very hard to work with.
Anyone having the same problem?
cheers
caligula
What kind of OpenGL support in Virtualbox is it? Is it hardware or software? I was under the impression that it had to be hardware OGL
neilford
>FYI Zbrush 3.1 works fine using VirtualBox on Linux, including Zmapper since >there is OGL support.
…
>Cheers,
>Peter B
any news about zbrush for linux?
i think there will not be a version for linux on pc until the year 2020 becuase
its a magic cyrcle .most of the users use windows becuase most of the application is for windows and most of the companies develop programs for windows becuase most of the users use windows.
its not just microsoft to blame that they have monopoly its also the companies like autodesk and the rest .
i hope that there will be in the future companies with balls that are develop programs just for linux and mac and not for windows .
There is one audio app already in this category and I even ditched using a Mac and Logic Pro to move to this. This app will NEVER run on Windows:
In this arena Windows and OSX are totally out the picture now as far as I am concerned. My Mac ran like a joke compared to my Linux system. I even subscribed tp pay the developer of this app rather than flush money down the drain to the likes of Apple.
if someone want sclupting tool for linux
move to 3d-coat software.
he release beta-2 version for linux
where pixologic and autodesk failed to do (this big company) one man do it!!!
one man against this two giants.
I don’t think many people consider pixologic a ‘giant’…especially when autodesk is mentioned in the same sentence
there’s a linux software called ALIEN which convert RPMs into DEBs.
but linux experts don’t suggest it.
I use it once, and I hadn’t problems with it.
Ace
you and I have the same machine, but I put “XP 64bits”, instead of “XP home”
and I recommend!
I have a dual boot. (I’m using linux and windows. and it is too bad Zbrush doesn’t work on it. zbrush 3 used to work in WINE, but 3.1 doesn’t work anymore.)
I use 3ds max since 93. (since DOS days) and when I realize I like linux, it is too bad for me, 3DS Max works in windows only. so I’m now studying ‘blender’ and ‘maya’, because I really want to migrate to linux.
Ace