Dec 5th '18, 04:15
IDK what’s wrong on your end, then; I’m able to load most physics models in ShapeFusion without a problem. (Just for the hell of it, I attached a screenshot of an Eternal physics model I already had open.) There are a few physics models in my own scenario that SF won’t load for whatever reason, but Anvil seems to have problems with most of those physics models as well. Overall, SF loads most physics, sounds, and shapes files for me (the only sounds file I haven’t gotten it to load is Pfh’Joueur’s, which I’m guessing is because some of those sounds are very large).
I think part of the reason some of this stuff doesn’t work as well on Macs these days is because, for whatever reason, it’s a lot harder to get things to compile on Macs than it is to just load up Linux in VirtualBox and compile them for that. It shouldn’t be hard to find bootable images of Debian, Ubuntu, etc., that should work fine on Macs, though I haven’t played around with them much yet. The semester ends on Friday, and afterward, I expect I’ll spend some time doing exactly that.
The other problem is, of course, that the platform that all the original apps were developed for doesn’t really exist now. Modern Macs run on a different chip (Intel) and OS core (Unix) than the classic OS did; it’s really a completely different platform from a developer’s perspective, even if the end user’s experience isn’t that much different on the surface.
As for why there isn’t an up-to-date binary of ShapeFusion on SourceForge, though, you’ll have to ask the developers – I’m as mystified as anyone about that.
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