[PlanetCCRMA] Problem with Ayam, BMRT shaders

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sun Feb 1 15:51:00 2004


> I have been trying Ayam recently. I found, however, that I could not get
> the BMRT shaders to load into Ayam. Eventually, I removed the RPM
> version of Ayam, and installed the tarball version. The problem went
> away.

I think the latest version of ayam that I built was compiled to use the
aqsis renderer (I did not test with bmrt which is a dead end, and an
example of what can happen with closed source "free" software). 

> I had messed around with the permissions on the shaders folder, but it
> didn't help. I can't think what the problem would be otherwise. As far
> as I can see, the tarball installer really only copies the Ayam folders
> into the /usr/local directory.

-- Fernando