Play with Voxels on Linux

How to install MagicaVoxel on linux

Work in progress on MagicaVoxel, in ArchLinux Manjaro

MagicaVoxel is the best free lightweight Voxel art editor out there, and a powerful tool for learning 3D creation.

There is no native Linux version of it however, so here is how to execute the Windows version on your Linux environment, using Wine.

• Download the win64 application from Ephtracy github
• Unzip the content in a specific folder, ie: /home/user/Apps/MagicaVoxel/
• Get Wine from your distribution packages: sudo pacman -S wine
• Launch the application: wine /home/user/Apps/MagicaVoxel.exe

If you’re running a dual GPU system (Nvidia Optimus), add the primusrun argument to make sure the graphic GPU is used with this application: primusrun wine /home/user/Apps/MagicaVoxel.exe

• Create your desktop launcher:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MagicaVoxel
Exec=primusrun wine /home/user/Apps/MagicaVoxel.exe
Icon=/path/
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false

Enjoy!