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NayamAmarshe
maeln
Tooll3 comes from the demoscene. It was used to make many demos. It is really uncommon to make demotools that are cross-plateform because most demos try to take full advantage of the plateform they are running for various reason.
ShadowBanThis01
Yep. It doesn't even occur to me anymore that something posted as open source would have no Mac or Linux version, let alone not even be buildable on one of those.
Talk about a deal-breaker!
MrGilbert
This tool uses DirectX, so cross-platform is quite difficult with that. 3000 commits tell the story that this repo is around for a while. There was a time where Windows-only FOSS was perfectly fine. In fact, there are many FOSS tools where you have to figure out how to run them on Windows, as there are only Unix versions available.
mysterydip
And a lot of the time, the response to "is there a Windows version?" was a dismissive "It's open source, compile it yourself."
At least these days, with VMs and Wine and WSL type things this is less of an issue.
NayamAmarshe
> Yep. It doesn't even occur to me anymore that something posted as open source would have no Mac or Linux version, let alone not even be buildable on one of those.
Yeah, these days, most FOSS apps are cross-platform. Windows exclusive FOSS apps are rare, I think.
TonyTrapp
Last time I checked, supporting more than one platform was not a requirement for open-source software. The source is open. This says nothing about which platforms it runs on. All it says that if you want to run it on another platform, you are given the chance to port it yourself.
ShadowBanThis01
Nor did I say it was a requirement. I said that the lack of cross-platform implementation was surprising.
rchaud
It doesn't occur to me anymore either, but that's because everything is a laggy Electron app these days. A OSS realtime graphics-creation application is probably not an easy candidate for a cross-platform port.
zirgs
Better than a cloud-only program.
e12e
> Windows only
Maybe it runs on ReactOS? Or under wine?
e79
Too bad it’s Windows only. I would love an open source alternative to TouchDesigner.
jcelerier
You can check https://ossia.io, the real-time GFX has still some features missing in particular for procedural geometry but it's getting there one step at a time :)
video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlFHIP6S34
kamranjon
Is this in the same category as after effects or nuke?
royjacobs
Those tools are typically used to augment existing footage whereas a tool(l) like this is much more focused on procedural content creation like Houdini or indeed many other tooling that comes from the demoscene, which is where this came from too(ll).
ShadowBanThis01
If it resembles anything, it would probably be Motion.
Of course I have no idea, because it's Windows-only.
If you want an open-source compositor, try Natron: https://natrongithub.github.io
corysama
The only commercial comparable I'm aware of is https://www.notch.one/
ttoinou
No, Tooll is real time !
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LiroXIV
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I was really excited, but then I saw this is a Windows only program.