I want to open .ptx files on Mac using Pixar's ptxview. On windows by right clicking on file and choosing Open With and navigating to where the ptxview app is located they can be opened. But on mac I can't choose a unix executable file for opening .ptx files. How can I make .ptx files open with the executable app that Pixar provides.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Looks like you either need X11 to be installed on your Mac, or it might run on the Terminal only:
https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/current/RenderMan/ptxview.html
Sadly the directions for its use are command line only for the Mac.
From the FAQ it says it's compatible with 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9 but thats where it ends.
No date on the FAQ but there is a 2016 copyright and it mentions RM 20 which is current.
if a brody's suggestion does not correct it I suggest posting in
https://community.renderman.pixar.com/index.html
RM and its components are very specialized pieces of software and very specific to a community of even more select 3D artists and you will have a limited hands on knowledgebase here as to what to do when you start having issues with it, whereas the forum is going to give you users who have had far more experience with.
I'm DL as we speak because there is a free vxf pipeline for Blender! Yay!!! (See, how many people here understood that without a google search?)
I agree that my question is more related to their community than Apple's. But I was looking for a way to make that app open the .ptx file in the OS X environment. I think I should post the question there anyways.😉
if you have not done so already
RMB on the icon and go to
OPEN WITH... in the contextual menu
you'll get possible file associations with that file type
if PtxView is an app in your applications folder you can select it as a default.
otherwise click OTHER
and navigate to the application (provided it's in the applications folder)
Highlight the preferred application and select "Always Open With"
then click Open
all subsequent times you have a filetype of this kind it should associate with this app, provided it's not a terminal driven thing.
If it is a call from the terminal it might be doable in a script or if you open in the render man app does it know to send the file out to the other app for viewing? I'm assuming this is a viewer for render man mods.
The script thing is probably easy if it comes down to it and someone can post that if that the case, but again only if the process is not an app in a physical location like the screen shot above.
How to Open .ptx files on mac using Pixar's ptxview
