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Tiny UI Fix is a UI scaling and fixing mod for The Sims 3.
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Does not work on Linux #7

Open lunalucadou opened 6 months ago

lunalucadou commented 6 months ago

I'm on Linux Mint 21 (Ubuntu 22.04) and installed .NET for Linux 8 and PowerShell for Linux 7.4 via the official Microsoft repo and was hoping the application would run on my copy of Sims 3.

Unfortunately, despite having both prerequisites installed, it never produced the tiny-ui-fix.package file. Judging by the output, I believe this is because the script cannot find my s3pi libraries, which are in a Wine prefix.

Are there any plans for Linux support? Currently, I have to mount my Sims 3 folders via sshfs-win in a Windows VM to build the package, which is quite annoying.

Edit: The mod does work on Linux when built, it's just the building part which I have to do on Windows and would prefer to avoid.

lunalucadou commented 6 months ago

Update: I just discovered this comment made on the post announcing the mod's creation. By copying my s3pi files into Binaries/DBPF, it does indeed work properly.

So I guess the question is: why not copy the Windows behavior on Linux? As long as the user has .NET and PowerShell installed, it should work. If it's a matter of not wanting to officially support Linux, this folder (and the DBPFManipulationLibraryPath environment variable) should at least be documented somewhere in the readme as a "YMMV" method.

pdc4444 commented 3 months ago

If anyone else is in this situation I was able to use tiny ui fix on linux via a windows computer.

1.) Mount the linux drive with the sims 3 on it via win-sshfs 2.) notate the directory locations and paste them into a notepad 3.) reference your directory locations when running the script on the windows computer

These are bare bones instructions, because this is a little involved, but perhaps this is enough of a nudge for folks that require help with this? A proper linux port of this script would be fantastic, but I can't blame the developer for not wanting to spend time to port this for a very small % of users who play TS3 on linux.