<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm new to Blender, so I won't talk about the totally confusing UI to me as a Mac OS X user or the poor performance on my little powerBook ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>This post is about instructions how to install Blender on OS X.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Specifically, since there is no installer for OS X, one would expect some help in setting it up.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>First, applications on OS X normally live in /Applications, so you should maybe explain users that they should drag the blender.app and/or the blenderplayer.app into /Applications or drag the whole unzipped blender folder in there.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Second, more important –and the instigation to write this post–: installing of the command line tool / installation of blender as a command line tool.</div><div>For most mac users it is not common to peek into the .app bundle, to run stuff there. It is even less common that the same binary which functions as the full blown app, is the same binary to use as a command line.</div><div>Therefore IMHO, in the installation documentation for OS X it should mention the working of this binary living in </div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">/Applications/blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/. Better even, while there is no installer, the documentation should explain how to add or link this this binary to somewhere on your $PATH in order to be able to run it from the command line.</span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I typed something like:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">% ln -s /Applications/blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender /usr/local/bin</span></div><div>in the Terminal to accomplish this, but of course there are other methods too.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div>Concluding: I think there should at least be a mention of the blender command line tool for Mac OS X users and possibly a simple way to install it into your $PATH.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best,</div><div>dirk</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>Dirk van Oosterbosch</div><div>de Wittenstraat 225</div><div>1052 AT Amsterdam</div><div>the Netherlands</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://labs.ixopusada.com">http://labs.ixopusada.com</a></div><div>-----------------------------</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>