Linux Client - Beta

Started by matt · 29 days ago · 20 replies · 2,541 views

edited 29 days ago#1
matt
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The Linux client and editor are now available on sbox-public. We'll let you smart guys play with it on the open source repo first, and then when it's proven stable we'll push it to Steam.

Clean your repo and bootstrap it with

#!/usr/bin/env bash

dotnet run --project ./engine/Tools/SboxBuild/SboxBuild.csproj -- build --config Developer 

I've been developing it on Fedora Linux 43 w/ KDE and Wayland. So I'm sure there's going to be issues on other distros.

Known issues:
  • need libxml2 dependency to launch editor
  • editor viewport does not get input (needs SDL<-> Qt bridge)
  • having duplicate base/code folders fucks it up
  • libharfbuzz2 sometimes uses the system libraries when it shouldn't
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zxcdulsed
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Wow
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G+
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never thought this day would actually come !!!
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greek gangster 47
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native freebsd next 
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Kaydax
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Linux
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Ambi
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J0e
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holy shit thank you so much
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nt
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oh wow, i didn’t expect this day to come. big respect o7
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banana bread
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s&box on linux before gta 6
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Richard
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Matt the Savior 
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DEX
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W
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LaVita
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Yay!
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Radnai Márk
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Lois I can't believe this.
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Trundler
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Wow... epic
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Vinchita
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Cool!
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phomes
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In the open source gpu driver for nvidia (NVK) we have been using the s&box benchmark to debug a performance issue we noticed with the foliage benchmark. It is one of the later tests and waiting trough all the others is a bit inefficient when we test changes in the driver. Does this client include the benchmark mode so that I could modify it to only do the foliage benchmark?
edited 18 days ago#17
frap
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matt
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well, it's very stable. it will replace the proton version in the next update.
#19
Who who?
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JoinedJan 2023 Posts2 Score1,280
Will you update s&box editor in the Steam for linux? It doesn't work on Kubuntu at the moment .
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matt
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JoinedApr 2021 Posts265 Score2,045
I will update the editor shortcut to work with Steam Runtime.

In the meantime time you can run sbox-dev manually through steam
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milk
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JoinedOct 2023 Posts6 Score465
Yeah cool thanks more beta builds great
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