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I have a custom built installer and auto update script for Linux users as well that I have created but it will depend on a consistent file URL and name.

if you want it let me know. it will do all the work for you and run the software consistently across systems rather than users having to debug an app image. let me know and ill send it over if you want it.

an alternative solution to the appimage issue is here: this is how i am now explaining problematic appimages to people that are not comfortable with advanced tools. This is because i found a need to have to remove complexity and needed to aid in making an alternative method to running apps that are images. this method essentially installs the app image.

Problem with appimage after running:

Output: ❯ ./Drafft-2-2.1.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage [70327:0515/195135.426517:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(163)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I’m aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_DrafftpQk1wo/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. [1] 70327 trace trap ./Drafft-2-2.1.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage

❯ [0515/195135.452019:ERROR:icu_util.cc(223)] Invalid file descriptor to ICU data received.

While this solution is longer, its actually repeatable and reproducible to work across appimages.

Solution:

Copy the app image to a location you want it to be permanently. for me i have a hidden directory in my home directory called “.Applications” where i store all apps that i dont want on my root drive.

(type the version you have with out the {}) ❯ ./Drafft_{version}.AppImage –appimage-extract

❯ mv squashfs-root Draft{version}

❯ cd Draft{version}

❯ sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox

❯ sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

Open a new file browser window then move the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/

Open it can copy the path to the AppRun script in the draft folder and paste it into the: exec= line example: (in kde, right click the file copy location & paste that)

Exec=/home/your_username/.Applications/Drafft-2-2.1.2/AppRun (you dont the rest added on)

Next go to the location of the icon in the drafft folder and copy its location to the .png file Paste that in the icon= section like this: (in kde, right click the file copy location & paste that)

Icon=/home/your_username/.Applications/Drafft-2-2.1.2/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/drafft_2.png

Save and you can now launch it with out any issues. This problem solves the portable version issues and also gives an desktop entry in the menu that is not available in the portable version, it also solves the icon image as well.

Went to try out v2, am i required to purchase it again to use it?

I think it has a lot of potential, im currently editing all 18 documents to replace names and some objects ive written about, so having it is definitely a real world issue solver lmao, instead i could just go to a variable table / header file (what ever you want to call it or refer to as) and change the variables once for all files that are reading from that table/file/data would be really useful. i think the simpler the better, as would be needed by non programmers and they may not have a good understanding of code, so making it simple syntax would be the best thing, id hide any data that appears complex unless directly “shown” by users (like my self) so it is not in non technical users face confusing them. making your software usable across the board. i think complex use cases need these sort of tools. but in a lot of indie cases, it could be hidden or behind an option.

maybe you could have a predefined document type that has everything already set, have an option for pointing docs to that header file (if not done with syntax) and have a table / list a non technical user can add or subtract from to add their variables. then those variables can be accessed from a modifier like “/” or “!”

and for complex users make it more code like where they can create any document type and just add what they want via #includes ##includes and variables with syntax for those that may need more flexible and more involved capabilities.

it could be in many different formats but i think that it could be massively valuable. especially if you can reference this from things like script dialog editor and quests etc.

Heres an idea for drafft 2

in the document editor having the language support variables so when it is viewed as a document the variables are displayed instead.

For example in a gdd or story concept:

var gamename = STEAK

here is my story about $gamename ! $gamename is a story about cows.

this would then read as here is a story about STEAK! STEAK is a story about cows!

just to simplify the changing of text objects in the text with out having to do it manually. What would be even better is to be able to have the variables stored in a different text file (like C++ header files). that way we could keep as many as we wanted but keep the documents clean. Use a maybe a #include gamenames.txt, it searches for anything in the same folder, if you want to search for any other file maybe use ## instead of #.

just a thought. could be useful.

im using on my home system Tuxedo os with dual boot arch (arch is mainly used for me for experimenting with the kernel).thats based on ubuntu but runs kde environment. on my work system im using rhel.

the no sandbox doesnt always work, i tried that solution that refused to open the software, no errors just sat with a blank terminal line. has done that in a few other flatpaks, such as affine. and the set uid option i tested as well that gave me a segfault crash, no idea why, So far the only way i was able to get it running was to extract it. and set the sandbox to root. and add 4577 to it. it ran perfect after that.

that leads me to begin to question appimages in their current state. (as a whole not your product as it happening on a lot of other app images as well.) the problem with it is most people are not like myself, if it isnt a simple fix, they will simply move on to an alternative, they wont debug or try and solve it. thats one of the reasons i mention it here. i love the drafft software and want it to succeed.

no spaces in path on my end, its an interesting bug, because it doesnt effect every system or os, so i decided to test other random app images as well, and some have the issue and some dont, i hope they fix the bugs with it as i think app images are great (not so much for security but for ease of use) thats where flatpak is good, provided that people set their permissions correctly (to be fair they usually dont so devs just leave it loose to ensure it runs. its a pretty common set of issues that really needs standardisation. it varies so greatly between systems even apparmor features varies between distro’s. i think their should be enforcement of feature set minimums but alas there is not.

im trying to find ways around these issues in my spare time as well, so if anything pops up that immediately fixes it ill be sure to share it.

i dont how ever, recommend people start adding the userns clone to 1. it will open a can of security worms that most people cannot fix or configure making them vulnerable.

also it happens for the portable version.

for the portable version this works to resolve it:

Download and extract.

cd ./draft-linux_portable
sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4577 chrome-sandbox
./drafft

and that will run correctly from any where

i am going to assume that it may work with an extracted app image. using –appimage-extract then using the same procedure but instead of folder name above its likely to be squashfs

but i havent tried that as im not home to test.

i didnt, i am still in the middle of setting up a new server so i havent needed the server yet.

but i did how ever come across a bug im yet to solve with the app image. on my home system, when i run the app image i get a error regarding the sanbox permissions. i think that needs to be set. on my work system this worked as i have a different environment. but my home system(desktop) i cant get it to run.

This is the error i receive.

FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_drafftTREQd9/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap

when my server is back online, ill take a look at a docker compose. script. but im still waiting on parts from the US. water damage after a flood is a nightmare.

Absolutely that is ok, Thats why i suggested it, thought for sure you would encounter it at some point with another user, and its best to have an answer in some form to solve an existing problem (even if that problem isnt yours its related to something completely different), rather than a user having issues, and potentially giving a low rating for a simple problem.

I love arch, unfortunately i cant use it with the amount of commercial vfx and animation software i use. makes it really hard to use arch. it is my favourite how ever, its both fast and so customizable.

Im stuck with debian based tuxedo (kde) this means i really only have to worry about maya in the initial setup (i do use blender but not for animation, thats what i use maya for). rhel and rhel derivatives are recommended but they are so restrictive when it comes to packages and customisation.

Ahh appimage launcher is a fine program. i have used it many times. i do it manually now. but only because of the way i want my shortcuts to be created (with my attributes, and arguments)

so the issue is with the appimage, and that link you sent most likely will never work with app images, that’s because there is not a set path by default that appimages are used in and people have them everywhere on their systems, ive seen people never move them from download folders lmao. for the apparmor profile to work the app image must be in the location that is specified in the profile, it will not work otherwise.

There is likely no work around for this at the moment as the profile doesn’t initiate any kind of scanning feature. so apparmor must be told where to look for the appimage. so its possibly a good idea to provide that profile i gave you, and use the instructions for a “readme” that they can access in your documentation. That way if it isn’t solved, users can simply follow how to do it themselves. its not a hard problem, but it is a problem that is present now. truly hope they can overcome these issues as app images are designed to be run first go.

in my opinion what would be easier is for each distribution to have in their options an app image runner. Stick the app image in that folder the OS will add the necessary things to make it work and the first launch the user can press yes i trust or no i don’t. and then it runs or not.

For any one that cannot launch drafft on linux ubuntu 24 ++ you need to add an apparmor profile:

sudo touch /etc/apparmor.d/drafft-appimage

in that profile you need to add this (Make sure you use your own location of the appimage or it wont work)

abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>

profile drafft-appimage /YOUR_OWN_LOCATION/drafft-1.4.5-linux-x86_64.AppImage flags=(default_allow) {
  userns,

  include if exists <local/drafft-appimage>
}

then restart apparmor service

sudo systemctl reload apparmor.service

and now it will launch.

you do not need to create new profiles if you move your appaimge. you just need to edit the file and update the location and restart apparmor service.

If you do not do these steps it will NOT launch no matter what you do.. Do NOT disable app armour. or create rules around it. just make the profile so it knows what drafft is.

(This should be done for ANY appimage.)

Your welcome.

Just had a thought, have you considered making a flatpak for linux?

I have to agree, ai is apart of everything and giving it access to NDA covered information might be bad, Not just that ai is generally terrible at producing quality. It can do quantity very well. But I find when ever I use anything with ai it just causes more work and more issues for me later on. Being creative needs less hand holding and more encouragement. that said, it is a popular selling point for many available software choices. from an artists and business end point customer side, i see it as a risk of leaking and data scrape where any ai is considered. but as a business ownder i can see why Ai is attractive to put in to a product. its a double edge thing and could be beneficial or detrimental.

Not to mention its heavy for local machines and a risk if done with remote servers.

The api, I agree could definitely do with some update to the docs.

Main thing i wish for is git and optional use of server. if i could use this software with git, id be over the moon.

thanks baj, i was considering doing it myself, but i thought id ask just incase you had already used one, best to get one from the original source if possible that way i know it will work correctly, but yeah i can make one . Thanks for the response!

Hey mate, Any chance you have a docker compose file for the hostable server? i want to host the data on my home server so its running on that rather than on my local pc.

100+ Days of use, simply one of the best programs for this type of work. I cannot wait for the next version release.

Might need to get in touch with every one, as i didnt get alerted to the fact there was an approval email until i came here. Which is likely the reason you still have 12 outstanding.

you and i share the same thing in that we are introverted lol. I have been around a long time, even had articles written about my self in regards to cg software that i have been involved with, and i still am pretty well unknown, its mostly because i dont push it hard to get known, so i totally get you there.

im a simple dragon (for reference i dont claim to actually be a dragon, just something ive said for years for no particular reason at all.) i just love doing what i do. i am beginning to start a company of my own as well as working in a joint one. so im thinking about building a community of people that are like minded and enjoy this sort of thing.

But yeah i personally didn’t mind you left a message. here is how it went for me. “Ohh i got a message -> ok thats weird -> ill check it out first before i report it -> ok that seems reasonable -> ok they provided some evidence -> sure no worries -> oh crap, i got to make some changes to that asset as its got updates, let me do that first -> then i did the submission”

some people will always complain it doesn’t matter for what reason. and the thing is, even if you did do it (not saying you did) to get assets…..like, your one guy the loss of $3 is literally the last thing on my mind after reading whats been going on in your life. so i feel like i can justify a “ maybe loosing $3 “ incase your claim in actually legit. which i feel like it is.

not every one is like me. i think that is my upbringing. Im not religious but i do believe in kama. and it does come around at some point, so if i do some good even at the risk of loosing something, i know personally i did it for the right reasons.

I do understand you getting a flag/warning, but i think in extreme circumstances you are doing what you can and that is why i think we are all doing what we can to help you with over 200 submissions. People over all are good. there are exceptions to the rule (especially on reddit…).

i cant speak for every one in that they should forfeit the profit. but i certainly would rather it be paid back and reinvested in your mothers care, either medical or repairs to the home. so once it starts selling ill periodically check and if there is a balance i will “purchase something off your page with it to reinvest. I have no idea how these work ive never made one on itch io.

People who help other people = better people on both sides.

I personally didn’t join it for the money.

Heres the thing, my geo nodes setup, i only ask for money because i value my time, its not much to ask for but ive given away many addons / node setups that take a lot of time to buid for people. But ive never had the oportunity to give away an asset for a cause. I didnt do it for recognition either. I felt like it was the right thing to do. sometimes there is a need to help someone. If that is you this time around, then im happy it helps. hopefully you can sort your family out and have a better go at propper care of your family through some income. the reality is, not every thing is about money and fame. people like my self are far more interested to help when the truth is being told. and i felt like your cause was genuine. Hope it improves your families quality of life.

I have submitted my blender nodes project. ProScatter, It is the newest version.

real shame, is there any chance there could be one last thing? disable tutorials on every launch, doesn’t seem to matter that I’ve used it 30 times this week the tutorial still runs through and cant get rid of it unless I run through it? I cant see a way to do stop it?

Also is there any possibility to opensource it? that way the work can be continued/built upon for others? in terms of how fast it is, I use it in my game pipeline to map out interiors and it would be awesome if I could modify it to suit some of the things I do with it. Just a thought as I really hate seeing software get developed and then it goes away for good, its sensational software. would be awesome.

What is the license for this file? can it be used commercially? Modified? Used on personal projects?

is there a license file etc?

Outstanding little library ! A must have for any low poly game dev or asset designer.

Bukkbeek did a great job making these thank you!

And as stated in a comment replied by bukkbeek to fishfour you can use these commercially.

Hey Baj, Curious to know when Drafft v2 is looking to be released? Such good software. Im keen to see what comes next.

thanks for the reply, The software is great. looking forward to seeing v2. ill try out the team. i had a think about the real time edit/database vs git /file based approach. i have an idea.

keeping the database is a good idea. but its mainly the documents that i think need the version control instead this could be of use.

when a document is open it could load a file, apon saving that file it could save that file as an auto export to word document in a specified path. While its open it could use a lock file or copy the existing “text based document” into memory allowing multi user still but the file save option will export the file.

still keeping the ability to live edit. but at the same time not locking it away some where and it cant be version controled. Essentially what im getting at is this :

[Server / Software] -> Settings {Set various file path for docs and other files} ––> server / software loads and reads the documents in said file path. {open document} -> initiate get (copy) into mem and add lock file… —> users save it checks and saves over the top or as a separate version and moves old version to a versioned folder.

Because its getting and saving it can be directed to a git controlled folder and be under version control and you dont actually need to change much in terms of software frame work. Plus the auto back up sent to a back up folder in that version control and the whole thing just works under git but keeps the server/software running entirely on its own.

This will help in times of disaster recovery as well as files are accessible fast and easily. as long as the software doesnt care that a change has occurred such as changed meta data to the existing file then git modifications from teams will work. also it will give you more freedom to develop services that matter as if there is a problem with git. thats gits problem. and restoring files is then just a matter of add the directory trees back and it sees the files and makes them available to the user. this will also give studios the ability to distribute the files consistently, know who makes a changes to the repo and when and prevents a complete breakdown if one person makes a mistake.

some things to think about at least. Hope that helps

Hey mate after some use. id love to give some thoughts on the software and hope this helps / gets more features that are actually used will be used in a studio environment like we are. i have so far tested this software over the past few days. and would like to get a few more features so it benefits you and any other dev that picks this up. How does it work if i want a small studio license. - i only need to have this on 3 - 5 machines (will depend on our next meeting as to exactly how many seats we will need to buy).

any chance we can get these colors and icons to be modifyable after creation. at the moment to change them i have to recreate the whole node then reorganise it back in place.

also the “Reverse” button in the timeline doesnt seem to function, at least i havent been able to get it to work.

also is there any chance we could get a few more shortcuts and some extra functionality in the markdown editor? Things like creating checkboxes, possibly tables shortcut and the ability to resize images that are placed in there so we dont have to use as much syntax? that would speed up the use of the gdd creation and what not.

any chance we can get the list of the projects to be resortable? as in in drag and drop the order of the projects? that would make it a lot easier when working with multiple projects that have a successional position but is created later so you can group them. For example i have 6 current projects set up. 1 of them has 3 part series to it. how ever they were not created in order. But now they are a mess lol.

Would also love some information on how i can store backup of the content of this software, Where do the files get stored?

Cheers. So far this software is great. I can see many things that could use some tweaks but im definitely a fan and this software could absolutely be huge. its intuitive. though somethings could definitely benefit from some more documentation and examples that are available to view on the web in the form of text and screenshots rather than an example project.

Some form of version control would be absolutely amazing especialy for documents and with working in a team or at least the ability to create the files in a git based repo. and reinstate that after a reinstall. noit sure if that is possible.

Idea : Maybe the data can be saved in a git repo and the software reads from there, this way when working with a team or even on lots of things, if we need to we can revert something back and track changes based on the user, and make commit reports on what is changed.

Would absolutely love to see task management that wasnt a kanban. Kanban is great but text lists that you can assign to a user (especially with the database multi user) would be next level good. Benefits of creating text based check lists with the aboility to add basic comments to them as in descriptions on them and nest additional tasks would pretty much be a complete package.

Here is a picture of a system we currently use and would love to ditch for a software like yours. this is a dummy task i created to illustrate what i mean: the top arrow referes to a commit tracking number. can share that put it in search and that will come up directly. Not essential but does have great benefits especially when using it in commit messages in version control in the game dev pipeline. the tags is important fort searching as well but not essential but desired. Subtasks are essential as some tasks are nested very deep hence the the task number at the top. and a comment field is useful as well as it tracks the edits.

Also is there any rules regarding using the software while im streaming/recording ? im going to provide a link to all the software im using but id like to know if you are cool with me doing so?

For any one considering this software: i thought about this as i have been using other software to manage my docs, I decided that 15 dollars was worth the risk. Do i recomend it? Absolutely. Just take the time to learn it and you wont look back. Great product and definitely worth the asking asking price. To any idie devs out there. If you dont buy this, your not doing yourself any favours. Get this software. Get it today and dont look back!

Scaling on 4k monitor is very hard to see. Its very small. Is there an option / possibility to set the scaling per monitor? or even have a scaling slider at the top right of the window or something we can use to zoom in

i know the screen shot makes it look bigger than it is. but trust me on a 4k laptop monitor thats 17 inches, thats incredibly hard to see.

cheers.

*** Edit *** Never mind. I found the option right in front of me the whole time XD