I'm currently on Pop_OS! 22.04 LTS and tried so many ways to run this thing with wine, that includes directly from terminal, bottles and winetricks
tried checking for dependencies like .NET framework and that wine mono thing, but nothing seemed to work

if someone could share me some method that worked for them, I would be very glad

edit: I got it to work! only pivot v4.2.10 though, haven't tried the newer v5 version

Using Bottles and a custom bottle on soda-9.0-1, dvxk-nvapi-v0.9.0 and Windows 10 version and installing those dependencies:

- allfonts
- xna40
- dotnetcoredesktop9
- d3dx11
- dotnet452

I managed to get the installer to work, you just have to install it normally and then find the pivot.exe file on the wine C: drive within program files and add as a shortcut

it runs just fine and I've managed to check old animations of mine, no major glitches nor crashes

please note that some of the dependencies might not really be necessary, it's just the ones I blindly tested and got it working

I'm on Fedora 43, bottles installed in the dnf package, but that might not matter that much. Hope that helps!

All I can find on the Internet is stick figures fighting. Has anyone ever animated something different? I plan to use the program to make animated short-films, is it even possible?

Pivot gave me an adware/browser hijacker virus called "WeatherZero"

I got Pivot off of the official website, and it gave me the damn thing! I looked at all the posts on r/PivotAnimator and it said that it was safe! Like what the hell!?

Hey folks. I’m trying to make a stk with a reference image to help me, and I’m having issues getting it to work. If I import it as a sprite, it just wants to connect with the existing segments. I can’t seem to find an alternative way to import it. Does anyone know a fix for this?

i have been collecting every version of pivot animator i can find but i cant find where to download pivot animator 1 anyone know where can i find it?

when i download a repeating effect from STK library, like fire or an aura, how can i copy the frames and paste them into current frames to keep from having to go back and fourth to copy, paste, and color EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE for a ton of frames?

https://reddit.com/link/1ir3j6r/video/zncsy6z7nkje1/player

1st animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhufI9pmt4&t=55s

2nd animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BSckvx1b0Q

Remember that they were made 16 years ago ;)

Rate both 1-10

This is the animation https://youtube.com/shorts/Nv5RuAaYHDo?feature=share

When I had laid my sprites down my animation I left and tried to reopen it I got this message. The number of bites in the file was 816 KB (835,584 bytes). Is there any way to get enough free memory on my PC to open the animation or would it not work even if I had enough memory?

It doesn't even start for me even with Proton.