Blendigo on os x

[benn]

I've been testing blendigo on os x and it seems to work nicely. The only things I think it needs are:

* An installer package to make it easier for people to set up
* Autostarting of the indigo gui to do the render

Does that sound right..?

[fused]

sounds right.

about the autostart thing:

i'd need to do that for cindigo, but i can only launch apps without parameters from the c4d sdk.
on windows im working around that with a batch script. is there something similar on osx? (appleScript is no alternative, since indigo would have to support it(or not?), that is... if you realized that support, it would be an alternative)

[benn]

You can use a bash script on os x, just like on linux, if you start indigo like so..

/Applications/Indigo.app/Contents/MacOS/Indigo /tmp/scene.igs

That will open the gui and load the scene.

[eman7613]

OS X is unix based, there is batch (never 1 to 1 working though), bash, tcsh, and like 2 more.

[chovey]

I agree, it would be great to have a method of making the installation easier. There are a lot of people who are not aware that one must turn on invisible files using the unix shell command terminal in order to access the .blender scripts folder.

But honestly, I'll just be thankful to have the ability to render in OSX. Thanks for your work on this!

Cheers,
Chris

[bmscmoreira]

There are a lot of people who are not aware that one must turn on invisible files using the unix shell command terminal in order to access the .blender scripts folder.

I'm not sure if we are talking of the same thing, but there's a free app called tinker tool for osx that forces the display of hidden files (among other advanced stuff). I find it very useful. I will try blendigo out, altough I don't know much about blender (but I intend to, it is a remarkable piece of software, well, such as indigo seems to be

[carbon]

no need to turn on showing invisible files, for someone unfamiliar with cd-ing in terminal there is APPLE+SHIFT+G in finder, just type path.. also TAB key completion works there.. just type:

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/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/BLENDER/DIR/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/.blender

[Caronte]

Since Blendigo is GPL, I think it's ok to take a look at the way the exporter for LuxRender launch the renderer

Thanks to all the development team by the OS X efforts

[chovey]

Thanks Carbon!

no need to turn on showing invisible files, for someone unfamiliar with cd-ing in terminal there is APPLE+SHIFT+G in finder, just type path.. also TAB key completion works there.. just type:
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[benn]

Hello suzanne!

Okay, now to write the promised blender installer, then I can move onto getting skindigo working nicely.

[bmscmoreira]

Looks good!

[benn]

And we've got a blender plugin installer going as well.

[chovey]

Great work Benn! Thanks for working on this project!

And we've got a blender plugin installer going as well. Smile