kimppi wrote:
Does anyone have experience, can Flame Painter 2 be used in Linux through Wine? Sometimes something like this would be useful. I think is could be simulated with vectors and blurs, but it would be very slow to do...
They do email with a discount code and it is a good deal with 50% off, although not too sure I would go for the Pro version otherwise.
Does it work in Wine - yes but
1. I did install it in a WinXP VM first, just to monitor the installation. Generally it does keep everything together in its own folder structure. There are some files in documents and settings in
C:\Documents and Settings\rich\Local Settings\Application Data\Escape Motions\Flame Painter 2 Pro (don't you just love windoze).
2. It does require connecting to the internet to verify the registration details, one time only but might still be a problem for some installations.
3. Copied the flamepainter installation into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/FlamePainter2Pro. Then had to re-register over the net again, which worked, so no immediate snags with limited registrations. I still do not like this, smacks of M$, Adobe, Corel etc but not much choice. On first run those 'Application Data' files are created in the .wine directory structure. If you want to chance your luck with any old flamepainter 1.x brushes that is the place to put them.
4. Hand made menu entry, which is what I normally do for Wine apps, but I think it should install ok with the .exe installer.
5. Fired it up a few times, messed about with some of the old brushes, I like the 'vector' facility that comes with the pro version, great fun