[maxx10]

Sorry if I'm posting this here, but I've tried in the dev section and got no answers... trying my luck here....


There is a tremendously useful shader for maya to simulate ambient occlusion which our windows and linux friends are enjoying called "dirtmap" but unfortunately no one has ported it to Mac OS X even though the source code is available here and since I can't code to save my life here I am asking if some knowledged Mac programmer would like to render the Mac community extremely happy and less jealous of our cousins.

As additional info I can add that Maya is a CFM app... here is an excerpt from Maya's docs:

There are two ways of building plug-ins on Mac OS X. You can either use CodeWarrior .mcp files or use the supplied Makefile. Regardless of the method choosen, there are several additional requirements needed. CodeWarrior must be modified and some of its libraries rebuilt to match our build setup of Maya. In addition, the OpenGL SDK for Mac OS X must be downloaded and made available for building plug-ins. We do not ship the OpenGL SDK on our install CDs.

[Maelman]

It's a mentalray shader, so it's not exclusive to Maya. Therefore it is technically not a maya plugin. I believe that makefile you were talkig about is just for the sources supplied in the Gifts folder.

[maxx10]

It is indeed a mentalray shader, and it's a port from XSI, and technically it isn't a Maya plugin but one for mentaRay so you don't have to change anything in the C++ code except for the DLL entry point and linking... and needs to be built with the correct settings with codewarrior

[sanity assassin]

You might want to ask over at the highend3d forums, or even try cgtalk.

[maxx10]

been there .... there're lot's of people that would love to have it available for OS X on those boards, unfortunately none of them know/have codewarrior