Can I compile Planet to run under OS X?

Can I compile Planet to run under OS X?

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Mon Nov 9 03:52:37 2015   by   Maezar
Hello,

I'd love to run this on my Mac but I haven't got a clue where to begin. I tried the Windows exe in parallels but it gives me the "matrix" window someone else mentioned... nothing but scrolling gibberish in a terminal.

Any help would be appreciated. I have xXode, so I can run make, but I'm not sure what to do beyond that.

Thanks,,

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M@
 
Mon Nov 9 05:12:27 2015   by   M
Well I got it running in Windows using VP Planet Generator.
Trouble now is that I can render images, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to SAVE them to disk.

Any tips? Is there a manual?
 
Mon Nov 9 10:44:18 2015   by   Torben
If you have Xcode, you should be able to compile using gcc, e.g., by the command

gcc planet.c -lm -O2 -o planet

and then run the planet program using commands like

./planet -w 800 -h 400 -pM -s 0.65421 -o test.bmp

which should produce an 800×400 map using the Mollweide projection from the seed 0.65421 in the file test.bmp.  See the manual for more command-line options.
 
Mon Nov 9 21:23:26 2015   by   Ron Vantreese
> Trouble now is that I can render images, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to SAVE them to disk.

If you go back to the Launchpad and look at the top of it, there's a "disk" button, which is the Save button. You can save images. Or let me know if it doesn't work like that.

> I tried the Windows exe in parallels but it gives me the "matrix" window someone else mentioned....

Are you using the [ ] Heightfield option? That will give you a matrix. You can copy the matrix and paste it in a text editor.... until I figure out how to rightly save a matrix of numbers. Also, if you go back to the Launchpad, there's a thingy that looks like 1 and 0 and 2 beams... that will normalize the matrix of numbers in the range of 0 to 1. Again, you can copy the matrix using Control-C and paste the matrix into a text editor (Control-V or Edit/Paste).

Or, re-reading, it might be that you need to enter a command like this....

planet.exe [list of options] > myplanet.bmp

The ">" means capture the output from terminal and write it into a file.

Or... planet.exe [list of options] -o myplanet.bmp

-o means write output into a file instead of terminal window.
 

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