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    Editor on Linux

    Flax Editor on Linux with Vulkan

    Download

    You can get Flax from your Download page or compile it manually from the official source code repository.

    The Editor executable is in folder Binaries/Editor/Linux/Development/FlaxEditor (you can use also Debug or Release configuration if you want).

    Requirements

    For developers using Flax Editor on Linux platforms the requirements are:

    Recommended
    Tested operating systems Ubuntu 18 LTS, Ubuntu 20 LTS
    Processor Quad-core or more, 2 GHz or faster
    RAM 4 GB or more
    Hard drive space 1 GB minimum
    GPU Vulkan required

    Flax Editor needs curl lib on the system:

    apt-get install -y curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev
    

    *On Fedora you might need additional fix for invalid lib linkage: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib64/libcurl-gnutls.so.4.

    GPU Drivers

    Please ensure to have the latest GPU drivers installed. Helper links:

    • NVIDIA drivers
    • AMD drivers

    For information about supported platforms, see Platforms.

    Command line access

    Ig you're using laptop with integrated GPU and you want Flax to run on dedicated GPU for more power you can use command line switches to instruct engine to select a desire GPU based on the manufacturer:

    Option Description
    -nvidia Selects Nvidia GPU.
    -amd Selects AMD GPU.
    -intel Selects Intel GPU.

    You can also specify the C# Mono debugger port eg. -debug 127.0.0.1:55555. To learn more about command line switches see this documentation page.

    Example command line to run Editor with custom options:

    ./FlaxEditor -project "<project-path>" -std -nvidia
    

    Sample projects

    To help you start using Flax pick the latest Flax Samples from https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxSamples. This collection contains various example projects that showcase the engine features and can be used as a foundation for your future Flax projects. Have fun!

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