The tree of life at DeezdiWorld. Taken by yours truly.
So, I downloaded 3Delight, and it’s got these sweet executables that run a lot like PRMAN, and I love it! but sadly it was hard for me to use from the command line because the commands that were supposed to be working directly from the terminal (“shaderdl”) couldn’t be found because the system didn’t know where to look for them. This drove me nuts because I supposed that the installer would have modified all necessary system files to let me act appropriately, but I couldn’t figure out what in the world was going on.
So I skyped the Mac Geek Gab podcast (I LOVE this podcast) and John and Dave said that I could append my path by making a file called .profile in my home directory. I already had one there (all files with a “.” prefix are hidden by the system, so I use this nifty little script to show all hidden files“)
Well I played with the .profile and couldn’t get anything to work, 3Delight had added stuff to it, and it should have been working, but nothing I changed mattered, until I realized that I had installed python 2.5. I don’t know if it did anything to my files, but I did realize that it’s environment was declared in a file called “.bash_profile”, and it worked. So I just added my 3Delight path there using this code:
# Setting PATH for 3Delight
PATH=”/Applications/Graphics/3Delight-6.5.0/bin:${PATH}”
export PATH”
PATH=”/Applications/Graphics/3Delight-6.5.0/bin:${PATH}”
export PATH”
And it worked! I’m now able to use a terminal and type “shaderdl” and it recognizes the command! Alright!