Download Page Error.
by Robert MacGregor · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/23/2012 (8:30 am) · 3 replies
Hello,
I'm a huge Linux supporter and was going to wipe my drive so I can dual boot Windows 7 and Linux just so I can download and use the T3D Win32 binary my friend had just given me a seat on. I went to download the Win32 binary so when I get around to dual-booting with Windows 7 I'd have it on hand but noticed the download page refused to show me any of the binaries. Knowing before there was zero Linux support, I assumed the download page was not functioning properly because of some issue with me not running Windows but then my hopes were kindly brought up when I noticed the site had auto-selected a Linux tab for me -- those hopes were promptly destroyed when that friend told me that's been that way forever and it's because of some page template you used.
You didn't even really say that there is no Linux support and nor do you ever plan on supporting it on that page (it led me to believe you had intentions on supporting Linux at some point), the download list is simply blank.
http://www.i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr59/DarkDragonDX/OMGWTFBQQ.png
I was very excited seeing that on GG's download page.
Why is it this way? It was completely misleading to the point that I thought I wouldn't even need to mess with my hard drive to develop in Torque3D seeing as I'm running nothing BUT Linux here.
I am pretty certain T3D would work if D3D9 was still supported in T3D because under WINE I simply get shader compiler errors for DirectX10 and then it crashes. If I'm wrong about D3D9 not being supported, please correct me.
Thanks,
Robert MacGregor
I'm a huge Linux supporter and was going to wipe my drive so I can dual boot Windows 7 and Linux just so I can download and use the T3D Win32 binary my friend had just given me a seat on. I went to download the Win32 binary so when I get around to dual-booting with Windows 7 I'd have it on hand but noticed the download page refused to show me any of the binaries. Knowing before there was zero Linux support, I assumed the download page was not functioning properly because of some issue with me not running Windows but then my hopes were kindly brought up when I noticed the site had auto-selected a Linux tab for me -- those hopes were promptly destroyed when that friend told me that's been that way forever and it's because of some page template you used.
You didn't even really say that there is no Linux support and nor do you ever plan on supporting it on that page (it led me to believe you had intentions on supporting Linux at some point), the download list is simply blank.
http://www.i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr59/DarkDragonDX/OMGWTFBQQ.png
I was very excited seeing that on GG's download page.
Why is it this way? It was completely misleading to the point that I thought I wouldn't even need to mess with my hard drive to develop in Torque3D seeing as I'm running nothing BUT Linux here.
I am pretty certain T3D would work if D3D9 was still supported in T3D because under WINE I simply get shader compiler errors for DirectX10 and then it crashes. If I'm wrong about D3D9 not being supported, please correct me.
Thanks,
Robert MacGregor
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#2
06/23/2012 (1:21 pm)
Thanks for clearing that up. As I said, I found it odd that it listed Linux there but didn't actually give anything in the category. As you said, for those who have access can get it but the site didn't bother to tell me I didn't have access to them which was rather confusing and very disappointing when my friend pointed out it was simply a template. 
#3
06/24/2012 (7:13 am)
Keep an eye on the Community Edition project. They're pretty fired up over getting a solid OpenGL rendering pipe in, so that may yield what you're looking for. 
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We have been up-front about Linux support in every topic that brings it up since the announcement many years ago.