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 23
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

.Net 8 SDK (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0). Setup can be verified with:

dotnet --version

*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:

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.

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!

Flax Editor Play Mode on Linux with Vulkan

New project

To create a new project to run Flax Editor executable as follows ./FlaxEditor -new -project <new_project_path> to create a new project inside a specified folder. Editor will generate a project template and open it.