From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: lwsn on os x
   Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:00:02 -0800
Msg# 1079
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Luke Cole wrote:
Hi Jance,

We tried setting up Lightwave on OSX with rush a little while ago, but did not meet with success.

It would seem that the "lswn" executable is a Cocoa/Carbon only application that cannot be invoked from the BSD subsystem.

	Right -- if that's /still/ the case, that's a show stopper
	as Rush then can't control it for rendering.. it has to be
	a command line oriented tool.. by that, meaning:

             o The program can be invoked from the Terminal with options for the scene, frame range, etc
             o The program must not open a GUI at all
	      o The program must not background itself, and return an exit code on completion
	      o If the command line is killed (^C, SIGKILL, etc) all rendering should stop
             o All error messages during rendering go to stdout/error (no GUI dialogs)

	Probably first, refer to the [NewTek] folks for enlightenment, as
	we know they have this capability under Windows and Linux, IIRC.

	If they currently do not have a way to invoke the renderer from a command
	line or script similar to the Windows/DOS approach, then definitely appeal
	for this in a future release. Until then, there's really no way to realistically
	manage rendering from scripts using their current technique.

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