[dyarza]

I think I saw this somewhere but I can't find it anywhere now, just to confirm; command line is not working on the mac yet, right?

mxcl gives a "~bash: mxcl: command not found" error.

I hope this is available soon, comes in very handy.

Thanks,

D

[dyarza]

C4D, Lightwave and SketchUp.

I have used the options in the plug in, but at work, on a PC I have been able to render .mxs files outside of the 3D app and it workd out very well. It would be nice to run M~R outside of the app in the Mac too.

[dyarza]

Yes, i guess that works. The nice thing Ihave liked about command line on the PC is that I can specify options like time, resolution, samples, etc that are different than I specified when I created the .mxs

For example, I set up a simple scene and rendered it for 10 minutes at 320x240 on my iBook until I liked what I saw, then put it on the PC at work, which has dual processors and is much faster, but I have no C4D on the PC, only MAC.

Then I can run a dos window and run: mxcl -mxs:(filename) -res:800x600 -t:9999 -sl:25 -th:4 -o:(filename)

Or I can set up a batch file that will render several versions of that same .mxs file to do tests.

Maybe there is a way to manipulate the options in another way on the Mac.

Thanks for all the help, this is good,

D

[dyarza]

Cool, I will give that a try tonight.

Thanks to all,

D

[dyarza]

When I try ddraggin the mxcl application icon and running mxcl I get the following message and the app does not work.

-bash: /Applications/maxwell.app/: is a directory

Any further ideas?

Note that I tried it both dragging the maxwell.app and mxcl within the package into the terminal.

Thanks.

[Matthew Schrock]

As adehus mentioned above dragging files to the terminal window generates the path to the file - you still need to enter the mxcl command and its parameters manually.

Matthew

[dyarza]

OK so I got the paths thing down... kind of... The only way I can get mxcl to start up is to have the .mxs file in the same folder as the mxcl application. I am pretty sure that is not that desirable. However, when I do, I get the renderer to start up and it returns almost imediately this message:
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>> Starting Render

>> Start Voxelization...
>> End Voxelization...


>> Render STOPPED by user


Render finished successfully

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So I do not know how I stopped it but that is what it thinks. There is also no output file at all.

I am on an iBook G4 1.33 Ghz and 512MB of RAM. (I know, but if I can get this up and running reliably and do some billable work I'll spring for the dual G5)

Thanks,
D