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How to get MegaPOV 1.1 to run on Mac OSX 10.3
First you should know that there is a perfectly usable version created by Yvo and Rene Smellenbergh, which can be downloaded from here. It has a graphical user interface. But when you're a commandline junkie or need MegaPOV to be usable with Apple's Xgrid, then you might be better of following these instructions.
Having said this, let's continue!
Make sure that you have installed Apple's Xcode 1.5, then you can download the complete source package here. I downloaded the package onto my Desktop and used StuffIt Deluxe to extract everything until I kept a megapov-1.1-directory.
Now open up the Terminal application and type the following commands and each time wait till they have finished, which means that you will get a blinking cursor again.
cd Desktop/megapov-1.1
./configure COMPILED_BY="Your name <youremail@address>"
make check
su
Now you will have to enter the password for your machine of course! After that continue with:
make install
sudo cp megapov /usr/sbin
By default Mega POV has a permissions mechanism, disabled fully, which will prevent you from rendering to output files! In order to open this up do the following in the Terminal:
sudo pico /usr/local/etc/megapov/1.1/povray.conf
Look for the line that says "[File I/O Security]". Take the ";" in front of "none" away and place one in front of "restricted".
You should now have a working MegaPOV 1.1 for Mac OSX, fully command line operational and Xgrid-worthy!
In order to be able to get usable radiosity using the newer POV-ray versions (3.5 and up) and MegaPOV 1.1, you'll need version 514 or newer of the Library, which you can download here!.
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