Installing Wings on Ubuntu?

The Ubuntu archive comes with the stable version, but unfortunately, the Sculpted Prim exporter requires the DEV version.

After I download the wings-0.98.36-linux thing, and extract it into wings-0.98.36-linux.run then what?

How do I get the RUN to do something.

Are you sure that wings-0.98.36-linux.run has the executable permission set? If not, chmod +x wings-0.98.36-linux.run, and then run the installer on the command line.

I set the permissions to executable.

"run the installer on the command line" ???? How dO I do that. You are talking to a Windows refugee here.

open up a terminal (probalyl right click on the desktop or look in the main menus of your window manager)

./filename.run

I'm using Feisty Fawn, and it has version 0.98.35 of Wings 3D. I grabbed the .zip file with the exporter... had to convert it to .tar.gz, which the default archive manipulator I got when opening the .zip file was able to do, and then install the exporter from within Wings 3D. Then the sculpted prim option showed up in the export menu, it ran without complaint, and it looks like I got a plausible bitmap. I will upload it and create the sculpted prim to see whether it's really the ellipsoid I had in Wings 3D, and will report on the results--though I'm pretty sure it will work.

In brief, then... move to Feisty Fawn. Then you'll get a Wings3D that will do the job in its default repositories, and can go through the usual channels.

Now "all" I have to do is learn to actually use Wings 3D... sigh.

P.S. I was surprised to see that Wings 3D is apparently written in Erlang! Coolness...

If 7.04's version of Wings can run the plugin, I'll try it. Some of the plugin material sounded like it needed to have the DEV Wings version.

And it's a #$%!# to learn 3D anything. Took me half an hour with AutoCad to draw a straight line