LWSN file in LW10

[Allan Farrin]

IN 9.6 this was its own file controlled by the cmdline, now it appears to have become a Terminal controlled entity, does that mean i have to control it with UNIX code?

OSX.

[Phil]

I'm not sure that your question is very clear. I'm guessing that you are confused by the transition away from PowerPC LightWave to the new Universal Binary (UB) LightWave. The old cmdline files are not supported by the newer version of LightWave, but don't panic - all is not lost. You basically now can use the exact same approach as for the PC version of LightWave - the arguments and how you supply them are exactly the same. The path handling is, though, different from PowerPC to modern OS X - the old PowerPC LW used old MacOS ':' directory separators; the UB version expects '/' instead. Volume names are to be replaced by /Volumes/(VolumeName) as well. LW itself will happily chew on old scenes without complaint, though the look may change due to adjustments made to the renderer during 9.x.

There have been UB versions of LightWave since 9.3.0, looking at my registration page (9.5 was Windows-only), so it might be that you can retain the look of older scenes whilst using UB if you need to. Be aware that the initial UB versions were flaky and slow, however.

There is a user-friendly launcher available at http://www.dreamlight.com/webshop/utilities/snublauncher.html if the idea of launching the nodes directly is painful. Alternatively, a simple script can be used.

If you want to do it yourself, one thing to be aware of is that the 32-bit and 64-bit executables are included in the same lwsn file under OS X. Since some plugins are not available in 64-bit mode, you need to use OS X's 'arch' command to choose the 32-bit one (64-bit is used by default).

arch -i386 bin/lwsn ......

Hope that helps.

[Allan Farrin]

I have almost no idea of what anything you said actually means but thank you for your reply.
I've only ever set up screamnet on mac systems and once on cross platform, but controlled by a Mac, but in LW 10 I can't even find the LWSN file.

[Phil]

It's in the bin folder within the installation folder.