ZBrush3 Shortcut (ctrl, alt, etc) Issue-sticky keys? [fixed]

[Rouxmire]

Hi,
I was able to get ZBrush 3 running (full version, 7 day grace mode) but none of the ctrl/alt/shift combinations are working like they should. For example, you should be able to hold Control and drag to draw out a mask, and when you press Control, the cursor turns yellow (as it should to denote the mask function) and it looks like it's going to work, but then acts like a normal mouse button press. After a lot of playing around with it, I was able to get some other combinations like Ctrl-Alt to work if I press Control, then alt, then release control, then release alt -- then it seems to go into "sticky mode" and function like ctrl-alt should (with nothing pressed, which shouldn't be the case) until I hit Control to "reset" it back out... it's very odd. Shift + mouse click/drag should smooth and Alt + mouse click/drag should do a negative sculpt... but none of these work.

I've tried every possible combination I can inside of the accessibility options for gnome but none of turning keyboard options on or off seems to help, including the various patterns I've found.

Other programs, like Inkscape, don't seem to suffer the same fate (as best I can tell, anyway) so I'm thinking perhaps it's a Wine related issue of some sort or maybe that combined with a Gnome thing. I don't know, but it's very frustrating and I could really use some advice/help.


thanks.
System: Ubuntu 8.04/Hardy Heron
Gnome Desktop 2.22.2
Wine 0.9.59 (that's what was in the rep)

[Rouxmire]

I've used the winetricks script, my hardware is a dell Optiplex GX520 with onboard vid, 512 of memory, etc...

Also, I'm currently upgrading to the newest Wine to see if it helps.

[Rouxmire]

Upgrading to the latest Wine, 1.1.0, fixed the problem with the keys. W00t!

For future reference, I had to do these things to make ZBrush work:

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download winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005 (installs dll's that zbrush needs)
(then install zbrush)
sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
(then run zbrush, and you'll have to do that each reboot)
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You do still get an error about WinTab

This procedure has not been tested with (but should work with) the trial version:
http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/trial/download/

Hope this helps someone else.

[dimesio]

sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
(then run zbrush, and you'll have to do that each reboot)
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This is only needed if you are affected by the PreloaderPageZero problem. It is not needed on all systems. If you are affected by it, you can avoid having to do this on each reboot if you edit /etc/sysctl.conf as instructed here: http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem

[bambanx]

Rouxmire where you download this version of zbrush , i try to install but don't work my installer . give me de link please

[Rouxmire]

Rouxmire where you download this version of zbrush , i try to install but don't work my installer . give me de link please

The demo link mentioned above works fine -- I tried it today.

[Rouxmire]

sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
(then run zbrush, and you'll have to do that each reboot)
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This is only needed if you are affected by the PreloaderPageZero problem. It is not needed on all systems. If you are affected by it, you can avoid having to do this on each reboot if you edit /etc/sysctl.conf as instructed here: http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem

Thanks for the tip. Upgrading to the newest version of Wine also fixed that problem.