From: Mathieu Xavier Mauser <mathieuxaviermauser@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Lightwave Network Rendering
   Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:02:54 -0400

Hi

Thanks,

Mat X

Mathieu Xavier Mauser wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Hi

I've scoured the rush newsgroup and I gather the consensus is that no one is using Rush to render Lightwave 8.5 on Macs? Because 'lswn' is broke on the Mac OS X version, i.e. Terminal will not execute lswn!

Is the bulk of Lightwave rendering done with Windows now? Or linux? Are all the plugins still only for windows?

Vic

Victor DiMichina wrote:

Although some users have had a measure of success with Mac & Linux (more on Linux), the most success we've had with Lightwave is under Windows. Plugins are more readily available under Windows as well.

	If /anyone/ has had success getting command line rendering
	of Lightwave working on the mac, please show the command line
	you're using.

	I've seen two folks who can't get the Mac's LWSN
	executable to run at all from the command line;
	here's a previous thread from the newsgroup:
	http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-view+1075+1075+1076+1079+1077+1078+1080+1081+1082+1083+1084+1085+1087+1088+1089+1086

	Sorry I keep forgetting Mac/LightWave has this problem.

	Essentially it comes down to this:

$ cd "/Applications/LightWave [8]/programs"

$ ./lwsn -3  /var/tmp/foo.lws 1 10 1
-bash: ./lwsn: cannot execute binary file

$ ls -la
[..]
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root      admin   460643 Oct  4  2005 LWSN <--
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root      admin        0 Oct  9  2004 LWSN cmdLine

$ file ./LWSN
./LWSN: header for PowerPC PEF executable

	Apparently 'open LWSN' works, and it's possible the intention
	of the 'LWSN cmdLine' file is that you put your command line
	options into that file, then 'open LWSN', and it goes off and
	renders. I haven't tried this, but the above thread seems to
	mention something like this. So I'm imagining, I dunno, something like:

$ cd "/Applications/LightWave [8]/programs"
$ echo '-3 /var/tmp/foo.lws 1 10 1' > "LWSN cmdLine"
$ open LWSN

	Trouble with this is, that even if it works, the 'open LWSN'
	will surely background itself, such that rush won't know
	when its done rendering.

	Also, such an approach doesn't allow for multiple processor rendering.
	(ie. there's only one "LWSN cmdLine" file to work with)


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