Hi Mark, yes you download the MoI Windows version and save it on your harddrive somewhere.

Then in a terminal window go to the directory where you saved it (using "cd"). Then in that directory you'll run wine and pass it the name of the Moi setup program.

So if the MoI installer is named moi_v4_beta_Feb-27-2019_setup.exe you'd put in:

wine moi_v4_beta_Feb-27-2019_setup.exe


That will run wine and tell it to load and run that windows program. In the MoI installer there is a checkbox option for making a desktop shortcut, it is off by default. Turn that checkbox option on and then after it is installed you'll get an icon on your desktop and you'll be able to launch it from that icon.

- Michael

Another option would be to use one of the GUI frontends for WINE (PlayOnLinux, Crossover , Lutris etc):
https://vimeo.com/342589409

Thanks a lot Przemas !

Thanks so much. very helpful.

Another thing I've tried was using D9VK (as if I recall correctly current MoI version uses DX9). What it basically does is it translates DX9 calls into Vulkan. Sadly it would require "child window rendering" which is currently not supported in D9VK. But maybe will see this feature implemented - as this project matures quickly.
I wonder whether MoI beta, which uses newer DX would work with DXVK, which is much more mature project (it translates DX10/DX11 calls into Vulkan).
If someone is willing to play and test let us know how it went.

Oh, and the reason I'm trying it out is because from my experience those "WINE addons" offer much better performance and stability.

Hello, anyone get a bit of progress lately ? I'm running the last beta on Ubuntu 20.10, and even with the __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1 set in ENV, edges selection can still be problematic from time to time (like after maximizing the 3D view).

printenv shows __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1, so I suppose I'm good for that part of the problem.

MoI it the last bit of software I would really miss too much :(

Nevemind, even if the selection was fixed, exporting heavy asset is like 25x slower than native windows, I don't think multi-threading is that well supported with wine.

Previous version(s) was more speed ?

No idea Pilou, I remember having MoI working with Mint long time ago (different hardware), but I didn't tried to load/export 'complex' stuffs.

Actually I don't remember MoI loading models that fast on windows either, a 450Mb .3dm loaded in 4 sec with the last beta ... it's insane :)

Hi PaQ,

re:
> a 450Mb .3dm loaded in 4 sec with the last beta ... it's insane :)

Not bad! :) That will be from the new parallelized loader in v4, it's able to chew on processing objects using multiple CPU cores.

- Michael

Hi,

I have an annoying problem that I can't solve. When I create a box and click on the surface it selects the surface behind the box.

How can fix that? MoiV4/V5

Hi surferdude, what operating system are you running on?

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I'm using Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, I'm learning Linux. Would be great to have Moi on Linux as well, I'm okay with Wine.

Hi surferdude, did you try setting the __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1 environment variable as described in the first post of this thread? :
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9373.1

Another thing you could try is going to moi.ini (Options > General > "Edit .ini file" button), and in the [View] section, find the entry for GraphicsAPI=Auto and experiment with setting it to GraphicsAPI=Direct3D11 , GraphicsAPI=OpenGL and on v5 GraphicsAPI=Direct3D9 .

Possibly one of those may work better.

Usually selection problems with click selecting means something is going wrong with texture read back from the video card. If you have any driver settings that you may have set to force anti-aliasing to be on also try turning that off.

- Michael

Thank you Michael! A combination of these settings helped. export __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1 and GraphicsAPI=OpenGL

(Edit- Sometimes it works)


Direct3D9 also works but shows every model in black, overall it feels faster than OpenGL. Would be great to have this feature in the future.