Hi Dan, I don't have any specific date set for sure yet, but I'm hoping it won't be too long. Maybe something like the end of the month if all goes well.

- Michael

Oh, that's great. I thought it might still be far off into the future. I will keep my eyes on it for sure.

Just because I'm impatient, I tried to run the v2 trial under Wine, and it actually works great! All I had to do was set up a new 32-bit wineprefix (actually, I'm not sure if the 32-bit was necessary) and install IE8 through winetricks. I've been playing around with it and haven't found any real issues, plus it runs nice and smoothly. So apparently Intel HD4000 graphics is fine. Can't wait for v3. :)

By the way, the model in the screenshot was something I did a few years ago in Rhino 4.

Nice one!

Hi,

I installed Moi V3 on Ubuntu 14.04 using Wine 1.7 on an older 32bit Dell Latitude D830 Laptop. It installs and runs, but the fonts are not displaying correctly. They appear as if a white layer is overlaying on top of a black text layer.
I don't know how to post a screenshot here but thought I'd just ask if anyone is familiar with this issue?
Thanks,
Fleetfoot

Hi Fleetfoot, is it the same thing shown in this post here? :
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6875.59

It seems to be a bug in recent versions of Wine, looks like something to do with text anti-aliasing.

You could probably avoid it by using an older version of Wine, see here for some links to setting that up:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6875.61

- Michael

Thanks for the reply Michael.
Actually what I'm seeing is worse than that:



It looks like a black font being overlayed with a white font.

The rest of it seems to work ok though.
Fleetfoot

Hi Fleetfoot, hmmm yeah that looks pretty weird. Probably something to do with the same area of Wine that was causing the previous problem though.

If you can get a build of wine-1.4.1 going and run MoI under that wine-1.4.1 prefix instead of the current version that would probably work better.

- Michael

Thanks Michael. I'll see what I can do. If I find a good solution I'll post another message here later in case anyone else encounters this effect.
Regards,
Fleetfoot

So, for what it's worth, the fonts don't look strange for me anymore. I switched from Linux Mint Cinnamon to Linux Mint XFCE, reinstalled PlayOnLinux, and now everything is fine with the default version of wine (before I had to go to 1.4.1 to avoid blocky-looking fonts). I also tried 1.6.2, which was giving me problems before, and that one works fine too. So, I don't know if that's really helpful for anyone, but at least it's working for me.

A year later, I think I've found the definitive solution to this text rendering issue without having to resort to an old version of Wine. If you look at the Wine FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ), section 10.12.6, there is a blurb about missing or corrupt text with QT applications. The fix is to apply a registry edit as described in the FAQ. Put the following in a file (e.g. norender.txt):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"

and then run WINEPREFIX=/path/to/MoI/base/wine/directory regedit norender.txt

This sounds like it changes the font-rendering method. This fixed the problem for me on Wine 1.7.50.

I just installed v3.0 on Mint 19 and had the exact same problem as fleetfoot, it looked exactly the same.

I solved it by installing the component Mono210 with playonlinux.

Everything seems to look and run fine now.

Hi Kevin,

re:
> I solved it by installing the component Mono210 with playonlinux.

MoI doesn't actually need any .NET / Mono stuff itself but probably your installation had a side effect of setting a Wine setting as described above:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4409.103

- Michael