Usability of Wings3D

[Bram]

I am a long-time user of Wings3D. Thank you authors! I was using 'wings' before there was a wings3d, and there was a thing called Nendo :-) This may have even been last millennium?

First off, I am absolutely thrilled by the dedication of the Wings3D team on keeping this long-running piece of software running, and under development.

KUDOS!

That said, I have to voice some big concerns:

In my experience, the old Wings3D was more usable for me. This is my experience with the current Wings:

• The current version in Ubuntu, 2.2.5-1 runs for me, but often stutters when I just rotate the camera. I am not sure if this is fps related or somehow the mouse input stream being discontinuous somehow?This is related to the polling frequency of the mouse. 125Hz is fine, 1000Hz polling is not.
  
• The current git source code, I can compile, but when I run the build, it crashes on GLXBadDrawable. UPDATE: Crash goes away if I delete the $HOME/.config/Wings3D/Preferences.txt file, and have Wings create a new one.
  
• The current linux-binary as distributed by the wings3d download page (2.2.6.1) does not run on Ubuntu, as that binary uses libwx_gtk2u and Ubuntu provides libwx_gtk3u. UPDATE: Thanks to Micheus, I now know this is a Ubuntu 20.x issue, and there are old 18.04 packages that have the req'd libs. It would be beneficial if wings ran on the current LTS version of Ubuntu, though.
  

Preferably, I would like to get wings running from source, without crash, and without stuttering. Other than that, I am leaning to binary-search the old releases to find out when it started stuttering, and use a release before that.

Any advice on how to enjoy the modern versions on Wings3D on Ubuntu?

Thanks!

Bram Stolk

[micheus]

Bram, since you are going to stick on v2.2.5 I suggest you to apply the patch available for it - check this link

[Bram]

Thanks Micheus,

I'm fine with using 2.2.6.1 using the gtk2u libs from the old Ubuntu package you referred me to.

Bram

[micheus]

Cool.