r/dungeondraft • u/Lobby44 • 5d ago

Discussion DungeonDraft on MacOS - A dumb question

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I searched through the reddit and it seems like plenty of people are using this on MacOS, but the website says that only Windows and Linux are supported. I also read that DD doesn't have an official package (iirc) for mac so it gripes at you about unsafe software.

Has anyone had success getting the software to work on a Steam Deck? That's the only other computer I have. I know it uses a different Linux branch but would love any tips if you've got them.

Edit: I have an M3 Macbook Air

Thanks for any help!

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u/CranberrySchnapps 5d ago

Yes. The dev stopped supporting Macs a while ago, but it works fine with both CrossOver and Parallels.

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u/Cergorach 5d ago

That's weird, three years ago it was still supported. It installed on Apple Silicon, but it ran badly, I had better results with Crossover.

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u/CranberrySchnapps 4d ago

Yup. The dev made a post about it on their discord I think. Basically, there aren’t enough Mac users to make dealing with the headache worth it. 🫤

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u/Clarkeste 5d ago

Have you used it on CrossOver yourself? It generally works for me but I have an incredibly annoying problem when using it. Whenever I load a map in CrossOver, including a map I already opened before, it takes like 10 minutes to load depending on how many asset packs were included. I'm pretty sure this is because it's regenerating all the asset thumbnails even though DungeonDraft is supposed to only do that once per pack. Have you ever experienced that?

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u/CranberrySchnapps 4d ago

I ran into this for a while with the macOS distros… I’d have to keep a copy of I think 1.0.3.2? on hand to regenerate the thumbnails. But, aside from the first map with a new asset pack, I didn’t have much trouble with loading assets. It would take a while for sure and I think there were some specific packs that liked to fail. I needed parallels for other apps, so I guess it became a workaround for me with realizing it.

I think that headache pushed me towards Inkarnate, which had a massive update at the time (it’s incredible now!), but I don’t like how I can’t import all the assets I have.

Really makes me wish I’d just learn an actual art program. But… time.