Luxrender doesn't render OSX 10.4

[spiralof5]

Hello,

Is luxRender compatible with 10.4? I went through the first render tutorial and got to the part where I need to hit render.

Once I hit render, nothing happens. No preview window, no render, not even black. Nothing happens.

I have not put any of the files I downloaded from luxrender.net anywhere. They are currently on my desktop. I currently have my path set to my luxrender folder but I'm not sure which file to choose. I chose the luxconsole, nothing. Then I went into the luxrender.app/macos/resources or something and chose the luxrender that is in there. Do these files need to go somewhere specifically?

The exporter seems to apply materials and recognize itself with blender, I just can't get it to render.

Any Ideas?

Thank you,

Scott A. Rineahrt

[Ratow]

Hello Scott,

The current binaries provided for OSX are for 10.5 Leopard only. But it IS possible to compile lux under 10.4.
You should keep an eye on this thread as Jens seems to be building a binary for Tiger soon.

-Ratow

[spiralof5]

thank you for the prompt reply.

I understand the limited time each individual has in producing open source material. No one is making money off of this. To this I say "thank you!" Until I get 10.5 I won't be able to join the community. Hopefully in due time I can learn it well enough to do lots of testing, user samples for the gallery, and features requests to further the community.

I have seen luxRender threads with some very, very nice looking renders. I have an employer wanting to freelance my talents and I think luxRender seems to be the way to go. I should probably ask this in another thread but as far as luxRender vs. Mental Ray, how do they compare against eachother? I see that a lot of options that mental ray has luxrender has also, in which I'm very pleased with. Aside from that, Mental Ray also thinks that everyone is a C++ genius and that we can all code our own shaders. They have a nice Arch texture but the options are a little limited.

Reply if you want, if not, I'm going to make another thread I think.

Thank you,

Scott

[jensverwiebe]

Spiral
I worked on Tiger-build and hopefully got it.

See: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=8037&sid=c8d36e12a4869bd4439560e45f077228&sid=3df246a4a6d4918add95b5469467682d#p8037

Cheers

[spiralof5]

hey thank you!!

I did however break down and buy leopard. I hope this thread makes it to anyone using tiger though, so they know there are more options.

Spiral

[jensverwiebe]

Hi spiralof5

The Tiger-build is working now - you can find it in wiki-downloads- developer-version, or
the same link where i had the test-version before.
Please check it out and report eventually glitches.



Cheers...Jens