Project Messiah for 10 $ !

chloesdad

Just a head's up:
I received my email notice yesterday, Sunday. The download went well, Messiah is running on my iMac (OS 10.5.8). Just go slowly, read their instructions.

Various video tutorials here (can be downloaded):
http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/videos.html

Extensive online help here:
http://www.eggswhyzed.com/messiah_docs/

Looks like it could be fun... eventually.

dale

Good to hear I was getting nervous.

EscapeArtist

The community forums there are full of people complaining about licenses not working or not having received them. I ordered my copy when the bar had barely moved and haven't got license yet, so I guess things are a bit of a mess there. Good to know things are being worked on, but it would be nice to have an official announcement or email about how and when your license is being dispensed.

Ecuadorian

Just received the e-mail. It seems you can lock your license to either your hard drive or a USB drive. Just wondering what are you guys choosing...

Khai

installed and running using a surplus 1gb drive we've hardly used

dale

@ecuadorian said:

Just received the e-mail. It seems you can lock your license to either your hard drive or a USB drive. Just wondering what are you guys choosing...

Just got mine too.
That's a good question. I'll have to think about that.

tfdesign

I just got mine too.

I think I'll use a USB stick, then hopefully the licence will be portable?

TIG

Got mine downloaded, installed and licensed very easily.
Now the hard part... learning a new 'tool'...

tfdesign

I'm trying to find a small usb stick to hold the licence. Absolutely impossible! A 4 or 8 gig stick seems overkill!

dale

Yes, It looks like on Mac the USB is our only option, is that your read?

chloesdad

That's how I interpreted the instructions; so I put the license on an old USB stick; no problems.

Also, imported a .3DS from SU7 of a custom bed I built for a client. Opened fine in Messiah. Have to play more as time permits, nothing to show yet.

Ecuadorian

@tfdesign said:

I'm trying to find a small usb stick to hold the licence. Absolutely impossible! A 4 or 8 gig stick seems overkill!

I feel the same way. Maybe you could:
-make that USB stick a dedicated backup device for "current projects", or
-install Linux on it, or
-make it your default download folder, or
-any other use that also requires it to be permanently attached.

tfdesign

I had a few problems trying to get Messiah to work at first. But I had a look at the forums, then tried again, and all was good. So I typed up this for anyone using Mac (or Linux), having similar problems...

@unknownuser said:

First of all, a big HELLO to all my Messiah-on-Mac Brothers and Sisters! Cool

I too had all this nonsense, but found the answer in the type of USB stick that was used.

I found that MS-DOS FAT-16 drives DO NOT WORK! They MUST be MS-DOS FAT-32 in order to work (or it seems from over here). If you right-click on your drive, and choose "Get Info" you will discover what type of stick you have. I must say that I've installed my licence key on an 8Gig stick!! That's right, 8 GIG!!! I tried to install on a 125mb drive that I had back in college days, but got that dreaded window everybody else were getting. Oh well..... Angry

To install Messiah;

disconnect all of your USB drives, except your licence key USB disc.

This disc must be named something else rather than "UNTITLED" (easy on a Mac- nigh impossible on a PC! Wink ).

Start the just-installed Messiah software

A window will pop up saying that there is no licence key, and you must generate one. Press 'OK'

A new window will appear asking you to find your licence key drive (in horrible Windows explorer look, but pretty easy to find). Click on your newly appointed USB drive.

Click generate ID code (beneath USB drive whereabouts in screen)

Don't try copy/paste, because it doesn't work! Manually copy the ID into the page you logged on to, from the email generated by pmG sent to your Mail inbox). Note, if you paid by PayPal, you will have your PayPal name as part of the ID. No worries there.

Press the generate ID button in your browser (I use Camino, because it's ace- if you have any problems, download Camino Wink ), out will spew a who load of code that will be headed by "//WARNING - ALTERING UNAUTHORIZED PARTS OF THIS FILE MAY INVALIDATE YOUR LICENSE".

Copy/Paste above into "TextEdit" from Mac apps. Then from the TextEdit menu, choose; "Make Plain Text" (or press shift-command-T).

Save this Plain Text file as "messiah_license.txt" right back onto your USB stick.

Close the Messiah window, and this will auto-quit Messiah.

Start Messiah up again, and bingo! Cool

Now whether it will crash again, once I get my other USB drives up and running remains to be seen... Roll Eyes

....nope no crash. Working fine! Cheesy

A quick note to the pmG Messiah developers, Guys, please make a decent Cocoa-based OSX app rather than these silly "made for Windows and then ported to Mac as a last minute job- 'because we can'" efforts. A decent Made-for-Mac app will take you far further than a dirty and crass port ever will. Smiley

And, your Logo really needs to be higher res. It looks pixelated and horrible.

regards,

Tom