[Radiance-general] x11meta issue

[Greg Ward]

I don't know why xform is complaining, but the problem with x11meta *may* be the MDIR environment variable, which should point to the appropriate library directory on your system.  Mine is set to the location of:

	$MDIR=/usr/local/lib/ray/meta/
	export MDIR

Note the trailing '/' which is very important.  Generally speaking, this directory sits in a "meta" subdirectory of the main Radiance library.

Hope this helps!
-Greg

> From: Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
> Date: October 3, 2015 8:47:45 AM PDT
> 
> Chris’ directory/path advice will fix errors one and three in your output below, but error two is unfortunately a result of the NREL binary packages not working correctly for x11meta. Sorry about that, I haven’t had a chance to sort that one out yet. Used to be, no one ever used x11meta but it appears lots of people are starting to pick up Axel’s tutorial which includes the use of that tool, so I guess I’d better get this sorted!
> 
> -Rob
> 
> From: Chris Kallie <kallie at umn.edu>
> Reply: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> Date: October 3, 2015 at 6:37:17 AM
> To: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> Subject:  Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue 
> 
>> Make sure you are in the right directory, or pointing to the right directory. -Chris
>> 
>> On 10/3/15 4:40 AM, Ruggiero Guida wrote:
>>> Hi I am having issues with the x11meta command.
>>> If I run 
>>> 
>>> objline objects/things.rad | x11meta (from Alex's tutorial),  I keep receiving the error:
>>> 
>>> xform: cannot find file "things.rad"
>>> fatal - cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/meta/vchars.mta", mode "r"
>>> xform: cannot find file "things.orig"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - I am on Mac OSX Yosemite. 
>>> - Last 5.0 binaries installed in default directory
>>> - PATH, RAYPATH set correctly
>>> - x11 installed from xQuarz.org
>>> 
>>> I have checked other threads and it seems other people had the same issue, but no solution was provided.
>>> 
>>> Any suggestion?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Ruggiero
>>> 
>>> 
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