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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe Linux, too lazy to swap back to windows, a lot of random stuff doesnt work or is super annoying to get working, like a material library addon I use for Blender doesn't work for linux apparently (sanctus) and makes it so I cant render with any light in the scene so its not just the menu but the materials themselves. I was hoping at least blender would work, already had to stop pirating houdini and I couldnt get the free version to work either.

All games have been fine, but I dont just game anymore, I like making stuff and playing with 3d tools.

At least embergen seems to work, so I might transition to jangafx over houdini, can buy it monthly and I spend way too much time learning houdini (its fun af) when im likely never making money off this hobby. (cant justify 300$ a year or 2500 perpetual rnow, its an insanely fun simulation toy so it honestly might be worth that, even not making money off it) Its just annoying, I've spent too much time learning it, my brains crammed with Houdini specific information.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

like a material library addon I use for Blender doesn't work for linux apparently (sanctus) and makes it so I cant render with any light in the scene so its not just the menu but the materials themselves.

I don't even know why that wouldn't work. All my blender addons work just fine on Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder if I'm missing a dependency, no idea how to check, seems odd that the material itself wouldn't work on linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Dependency hell is self-inflicted
  2. Dependencies are built into your packaging system (unless you're using containers). There I'll be a way to say "what does this need" and "go get it", but that should have been done during the install of properly-packaged software

I suspect I'm making assumptions about your install, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

You can try the sanctus demo yourself and see if it works for you on Blender running on Linux. Alt tab easy fog 2 says win/mac and a reviewer had issues running it on linux, i tried another material addon, the materials work but previews in its ui are broken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I had a few not install, some say that linux isnt supported in reviews and dont work like alt tab easy fog 2, and sanctus are the ones I remember off the top of my head (sanctus menu didn't work and caused blender to freeze, took me forever to realize it was soemthing I was appending that had a sanctus material causing my crash, didn't realize til I installed the addon on a fresh install and tried applying it to something getting the same issue)