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OSX Mesher Testing
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:59 pm
by dandandaman
To everyone who owns a mac, both PPC and Intel, hear me!
I've got a mesher binary, which I know works on one PPC machine, and one Intel machine, but doesn't work on another Intel machine.
It needs testing so we can try and determine why.
Please complete the following steps, and paste the output as a reply to this topic, together with your mac type (PPC or Intel), and whether or not you have Fink installed (if you don't know what it is, you don't have it). Any help is great!
+ Download the attached .zip file
+ Extract, and move the three files contained within into your home directory (NOT your Desktop)
+ Open up the 'Terminal' application and type the following:
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./mesher MiniFighter.obj MiniFighter.bfxm obc
Thankyou all. For those of you I haven't already had do this, the help is greatly appreciated!
Dan
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:41 pm
by JunkDNA
I get:
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0_0: 367 faces, 602 vertices, 0 lines, 86 tris, 281 quads
Total faces: 367
ibook g4 , OS X 10.4.8, fink installed
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:00 am
by dandandaman
Cheers JunkDNA
Well, I'm stumped then. We really need at least one other non-fink tester to be certain, but otherwise ...
dan
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:24 pm
by JunkDNA
No problem,
For what it's worth, I just tried moving /sw to /not_sw to try and hide my fink installation. I get the same result as above.
edit: I just realised, I could try it out on my machine at work (Mac Pro, no fink) next week, just don't tell the boss
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:48 am
by dandandaman
Would be great if you could, but nothing worth getting in trouble over
And ya, I got the same result when moving fink out the way, so it may be an intel thing in fact!
Dan
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:32 pm
by JunkDNA
Well, the Mac Pro gives the same result as my ibook i.e.:
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0_0: 367 faces, 602 vertices, 0 lines, 86 tris, 281 quads
Total faces: 367
The plot thickens!
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:29 pm
by Phlogios
This is really wierd. It didn't work on my MacMini Core Duo (where I made the mesh in Wings3D) and it didn't work on my brand new MacBook Pro (nothing had been installed at the time, default configuration). I'm going to try to install Fink (If it's free) and try later.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:31 am
by dandandaman
I really doubt it's the problem, but ya, at this stage it can't hurt to try
Dan
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:18 pm
by Phlogios
Hmm. I downloaded Fink, and installed it, and tried to make the bfxm file. It didn't work. But then I tried dragging'n'dropping the mesher binary first (into the terminal) and then I drag'n'dropped the .obj, wrote Mini.bfxm and obc and it worked. So, drag'n'drop mesher + minifighter.obj minifighter.bfxm obc didn't work for me.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:12 am
by dandandaman
So... we have a solution?
Dan
A bit late maybe
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:28 am
by jbuchman
it's a bit late maybe, but i've been looking for an intel version of this for a bit and found this thread so here goes... I have a macbook pro 17" with darwinports installed, downloaded the program attached to thread and here's my output!
./mesher MiniFighter.obj MiniFighter.bfxm obc
0_0: 367 faces, 602 vertices, 0 lines, 86 tris, 281 quads
Total faces: 367
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:53 am
by dandandaman
Cool, cheers
I think it's safe to say it works then, with that one mystery exception (which we now have a workaround for). Just to note, you don't actually need fink or darwinports installed.
Thanks to everyone, no other additions are needed
Dan