PhotoSculpt on Mac Running Via Virtualisation

PhotoSculpt running on Mac (using virtualisation software VMWare and windows 7), click on image to enlarge

A user has successfully tested for us the virtualisation of PhotoSculpt on Mac via VMWare Fusion (see http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/). He said it runned smoothly witch is good news for Mac users wanting to use PhotoSculpt on their machines.

We'll now investigate about this option. Has anyone else tried it? Please send your tests and images at info@photosculpt.net, we would love to hear from you!

source: sephi-chan (thanks!)

Comments

[Ed J.]

I ran PhotoSculp in XP running as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion running on a Mac Mini. It seems to run OK.

For Direct3d to run properly in the VM, you may need to add the following lines in the "vmx" file for the VM:

mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864
vmmouse.present = FALSE

NOTE:

1. Quotes may or may not be necessary around the values (i.e. "TRUE", etc..). Follow the convention used for the other parameters in the vmx file.
2. As you might imagine, you need to display the console of the VM on the MAC. If you access the VM via RDP, Direct3D will not work. You can, of course, access the MAC remotely, and in turn, access the console of the VM.

More details are given in this VMware article about how to enable Direct3D for a VM running in VMware Workstation, but it seems this also works for VMware Fusion:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html

After powering up the VM, run "dxdiag". Go to the dxdiag "Display" tab and run the DirectX/Direct3D tests. If they are grayed out, check for typos in the vmx file. I'm sure there are many more details out there on the web - that's where I found everything ;)

[Gozilla]

Virtualization software is not a solution. It is just a compromise and does not work well for most cases in CG modeling and rendering.

A lot of developers are now targeting again the Mac platform due to the success of its products and the expansion of its customer base.
Even Rhino is now in the process of being ported to Mac.

Photosculpt looks to be a really interesting and time saving piece of software.
I truly hope that the developers will find the time and the will to make also a Mac OS version for the joy (and the money) of the Apple fans.

Thanks.