[Radiance-general] MacosX and X11 and radiance and blender and brad

[J. Sienknecht]

yes it works! ((-: 
thank you very much!

btw: is there a list like "recommended readings" for people who are starting
to learn radiance? I would like to know, as an example, what kind of math
and physics people (really) have to know, and which books are recommended
therefor etc.
I have orderd the "The Art And Science Of Lighting Visualization" - is
everything (and more...) I (will) ask about inside this book?

all the best

johannes


> just have a morning chat with the main brad guru:
> Francesco itself ;-)))
> we tried different things and we think to have identified the problem:
> 
> -1- make sure that ximage works at all on your system (just a silly check,
> but you never know)
> -2- if ximage works, the solution is then to start blender from the
> terminal.
> 
> to do that you need to go into:
> blender.app/contents/macos
> 
> in fact blender.app is a folder folder as all macosx applications
> (to browse it you need to ctlr+click on it and ask for 'show contents' in
> the contextual menu)
> 
> when you are into
> blender.app/contents/macos
> just type: 
> ./blender
> 
> the GUI starts and everything works.
> plus you are able to see error messages in the terminal window (good if you
> need to fix a problem)
> only small problem is that the window is larger than the screen, but you can
> adjust the menu position by dragging them.
> 
> 
> hope it works now
> cheers
> giulio
> &
> francesco
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org
> [mailto:radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org]On Behalf Of J.
> Sienknecht
> Sent: 13 January 2005 21:51
> To: radiance
> Subject: [Radiance-general] [Radiance and Brad] MacosX and X11 and brad
> anblender
> 
> 
> Hello everyone! I'm really new to radiance and first I have to say:
> 
> Thank You Very Much For Developing And Supporting This Free Software!!
> 
> Radiance is running fine on my system (far as i can see) with macos 10.3.7,
> blender 2.3.6, python 2.3.
> 
> My question is more about blender and brad because
> 
> everything seems to work in general, but if i try the sky preview
> i get the following in the console window:
> 
> " ximage 
> /Applications/Blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/.blender/scripts/brad/tmp/
> mph.pic: cannot open display"
> 
> I've edited my bash_profile like it was explained from pillo:
> 
> --------
> if someone is interested in using x11 as graphical output for the built
> in panther terminal this is what is required:
> 
> 1) launch x11, launch terminal (keep X11  always open when the terminal
> is open, otherwise it doesn't work!)
> 
> 2) edit your .bash_profile as follows, just add these lines:
> 
> if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ];then echo -n
> export DISPLAY=':0'
> fi 
> ---------
> 
> but sadley it has not the desired (display-) effect to applications
> controlled via brad/blender, too.
> 
> would it be possible to open x-window-radiance-applications like ximage out
> of blender/python in a way that they use x-darwin and its display?
> 
> thank you very much and all the best
> 
> johannes
> 
> 
> 
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