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Hi all,

I am on OSX 10.4.6 on an iBook G4. I have had the same problem with the beta and the RCs, and now 1.0 is doing the same.

I can render from studio, from the C4D plug-in, and by dragging the .mxs into the maxwell.app icon. I haven't been able to run mxcl from the command line at all. I get the error -bash: mxcl: commandnot found

Env returns: MAXWELL_ROOT=/Applications/Maxwell/maxwell.app/Contens/MacOS/ which is correct, isn't it?

Of course since I can't do this, there is no wat to start mxcl -d or mxcl-server or manager.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

change (cd) to the directory in which mxcl is located.

dyarza wrote:Hi all,

I am on OSX 10.4.6 on an iBook G4. I have had the same problem with the beta and the RCs, and now 1.0 is doing the same.

I can render from studio, from the C4D plug-in, and by dragging the .mxs into the maxwell.app icon. I haven't been able to run mxcl from the command line at all. I get the error -bash: mxcl: commandnot found

Env returns: MAXWELL_ROOT=/Applications/Maxwell/maxwell.app/Contens/MacOS/ which is correct, isn't it?

Of course since I can't do this, there is no wat to start mxcl -d or mxcl-server or manager.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

you cannot run maxwell.app from the commandline. but probably this is not your problem...

anyway, you have to run mxcl. to do so, open the content of maxwell.app with the finder context menu (use 'show package contents') and open the MacOS folder. here you find mxcl. drag this into the open terminal window - this gives you the path. then add '-d' for standard operation, or any other options, voila'.

you can select and drag the commandline out of terminal and store it as a text clip, so it is ready for use later - no need to reopen maxwell.app each time...

hope this was it?

markus

Markus, thanks! That worked exactly. I am not sure why it will not work if I simpy CD to the directory and then try to run mxcl -d, or if I type in the full path, but nevermind, it works doing it your way.

Many thanks,

D

mgroeteke wrote:

dyarza wrote:Hi all,

I am on OSX 10.4.6 on an iBook G4. I have had the same problem with the beta and the RCs, and now 1.0 is doing the same.

I can render from studio, from the C4D plug-in, and by dragging the .mxs into the maxwell.app icon. I haven't been able to run mxcl from the command line at all. I get the error -bash: mxcl: commandnot found

Env returns: MAXWELL_ROOT=/Applications/Maxwell/maxwell.app/Contens/MacOS/ which is correct, isn't it?

Of course since I can't do this, there is no wat to start mxcl -d or mxcl-server or manager.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

you cannot run maxwell.app from the commandline. but probably this is not your problem...

anyway, you have to run mxcl. to do so, open the content of maxwell.app with the finder context menu (use 'show package contents') and open the MacOS folder. here you find mxcl. drag this into the open terminal window - this gives you the path. then add '-d' for standard operation, or any other options, voila'.

you can select and drag the commandline out of terminal and store it as a text clip, so it is ready for use later - no need to reopen maxwell.app each time...

hope this was it?

markus

Hey mgroeteke when I try what you said like

Pod-3s-Computer:~ pod3$ -mxs:/Users/pod3/Desktop/ApplecinemadisplayFinal/Final.mxs
-bash: -mxs:/Users/pod3/Desktop/ApplecinemadisplayFinal/Final.mxs: No such file or directory

I keep getting no such directory even when im dragging my file on to the terimal? just trying to render and setup network with mxcl

TCSFunk wrote:

mgroeteke wrote:

dyarza wrote:Hi all,

I am on OSX 10.4.6 on an iBook G4. I have had the same problem with the beta and the RCs, and now 1.0 is doing the same.

I can render from studio, from the C4D plug-in, and by dragging the .mxs into the maxwell.app icon. I haven't been able to run mxcl from the command line at all. I get the error -bash: mxcl: commandnot found

Env returns: MAXWELL_ROOT=/Applications/Maxwell/maxwell.app/Contens/MacOS/ which is correct, isn't it?

Of course since I can't do this, there is no wat to start mxcl -d or mxcl-server or manager.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

you cannot run maxwell.app from the commandline. but probably this is not your problem...

anyway, you have to run mxcl. to do so, open the content of maxwell.app with the finder context menu (use 'show package contents') and open the MacOS folder. here you find mxcl. drag this into the open terminal window - this gives you the path. then add '-d' for standard operation, or any other options, voila'.

you can select and drag the commandline out of terminal and store it as a text clip, so it is ready for use later - no need to reopen maxwell.app each time...

hope this was it?

markus

Hey mgroeteke when I try what you said like

Pod-3s-Computer:~ pod3$ -mxs:/Users/pod3/Desktop/ApplecinemadisplayFinal/Final.mxs
-bash: -mxs:/Users/pod3/Desktop/ApplecinemadisplayFinal/Final.mxs: No such file or directory

I keep getting no such directory even when im dragging my file on to the terimal? just trying to render and setup network with mxcl

you have to give terminal the exact path of the mxcl commandline application + the exact path of your .mxs file, otherwise it will not run. you are only giving the msx file path.

Thanks made that mistake but I have it working now. When your doing network rendering are you saving all the rendered images to one computer or are you saving to each seperate computer? I Keep getting a write error when one of my servers wont render across network to another computer

TCSFunk wrote:Thanks made that mistake but I have it working now. When your doing network rendering are you saving all the rendered images to one computer or are you saving to each seperate computer? I Keep getting a write error when one of my servers wont render across network to another computer

sorry, not doing any network rending yet - for what i can say, there are still some issues with it. maybe it's worth to wait for an upcoming patch. anyway, manual cooperative rendering is working well.

Whatcha mean by manual Coop Render

TCSFunk wrote:Whatcha mean by manual Coop Render

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=12212