MacRadiant Still Supported?

Ashyr · **Joined:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:10 am **Posts:** 9

The answer seems obvious, but I haven't seen anything official on this forum or the website about whether people even use this software anymore let alone support it.

I've had unanswered questions about problems that prevent me from mapping for months now, and though I used to be so enthusiastic about mapping, I've completely lost hope because this has prevented me from working on a map I've been trying to finish for years.

I've seen that the Redsaurus.net homepage has a link to a Intel Mac version of NetRadiant (the GtkRadiant 1.5 killer?), but after searching for hours for at least a hint of installation instructions, all I'm left to is endlessly clicking the NetRadiant icon of the supposedly working package watching absolutely nothing happen (not even a bouncing icon in my dock).

So my real question is: Is anyone still here? Are there people out there mapping with MacRadiant, or have you moved onto NetRadiant of some other software of which I am unaware? I really want to start mapping again, but it's like a friggin' quest every time I have the simplest issue.

Bonesetter · **Joined:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 5

To be honest, I'm not sure how many people are still mapping. I took about a 5 year break from it and recently decided to give it a shot again because I've been playing a few of the old titles I used to waste hours playing.

My orginal radiant that I manually compiled and installed still works, but I'm a little rusty on things. I tried to use the 1.4 and 1.5 bundle and when I installed it and click the 1.4 application, it opens and nothing happens. I will be doing a little digging, but I'm not sure how much time I want to spend on it. I hope you're having better luck since your post! Very Happy

Ashyr · **Joined:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:10 am **Posts:** 9

Actually yes. I have a dual boot with Windows 7 and I'm using the original GTKRadiant. Not exactly what I had in mind, but it works, and since this community effectively vanished, I didn't have many options.

Bonesetter · **Joined:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 5

I have both the intel version and ppc versions up and running just fine on 10.5.8. It took some messing around with, and some PM's with Eridan to get it working properly.

I got both versions from here: http://redsaurus.net/00/node/4

If you completely remove all of your old radiant files, even the hidden ones on your drive, these bundles should work for you if you follow the instructions in Eridan's leopard post:

Quote:

First, you need to update X11. Get the latest Leopard version from http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz

Navigate inside your MacRadiant 1.x bundle and locate the "script" file inside Contents/Resources. To open "Contents/Resources", just control-click or right-click on the MacRadiant 1.x icon. A menu should appear. Select "Display content" or something similar and a window should pop up, with a "Contents" folder in it. Open the "script" file with your favorite text editor and remove the group of lines starting from the line
### Work around ...etc...
down to (and including) the line
export DISPLAY= ...etc...
(15 lines in all I think). Then, you should have, at the end of the file :
ulimit -n 512
exec "$CWD/sw/ .... etc ....

Fire up the Terminal application (in /Applications/Utilities/) and type the the following three lines (in the following, YOURPATH should be replaced by the path to your MacRadiant application bundle; don't forget to press the RETURN key at the end of each line) :
cd "YOURPATH/MacRadiant 1.4.app/Contents/Resources/sw/lib"
mv libiconv.2.dylib libiconv.2.dylib.orig
ln -s /usr/lib/libiconv.dylib libiconv.2.dylib

One thing we did find though, is that the intel bundle of 1.4 is missing the /wolf folder. So if you're going to do any RTCW mapping you'll need that.

As far as support goes, the mac bundles were created by guys in their spare time just to save you the pain of compiling and building radiant manually on your machine, like we used to have to do. I feel your frustration though, almost all of the links to the old mapping tutorials that I used to use, which were once so helpful, have also seemed to have disappeared from the web.

Ashyr · **Joined:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:10 am **Posts:** 9

Bonesetter wrote:

I have both the intel version and ppc versions up and running just fine on 10.5.8. It took some messing around with, and some PM's with Eridan to get it working properly.

I got both versions from here: http://redsaurus.net/00/node/4

If you completely remove all of your old radiant files, even the hidden ones on your drive, these bundles should work for you if you follow the instructions in Eridan's leopard post:

Quote:

First, you need to update X11. Get the latest Leopard version from http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz

Navigate inside your MacRadiant 1.x bundle and locate the "script" file inside Contents/Resources. To open "Contents/Resources", just control-click or right-click on the MacRadiant 1.x icon. A menu should appear. Select "Display content" or something similar and a window should pop up, with a "Contents" folder in it. Open the "script" file with your favorite text editor and remove the group of lines starting from the line
### Work around ...etc...
down to (and including) the line
export DISPLAY= ...etc...
(15 lines in all I think). Then, you should have, at the end of the file :
ulimit -n 512
exec "$CWD/sw/ .... etc ....

Fire up the Terminal application (in /Applications/Utilities/) and type the the following three lines (in the following, YOURPATH should be replaced by the path to your MacRadiant application bundle; don't forget to press the RETURN key at the end of each line) :
cd "YOURPATH/MacRadiant 1.4.app/Contents/Resources/sw/lib"
mv libiconv.2.dylib libiconv.2.dylib.orig
ln -s /usr/lib/libiconv.dylib libiconv.2.dylib

One thing we did find though, is that the intel bundle of 1.4 is missing the /wolf folder. So if you're going to do any RTCW mapping you'll need that.

As far as support goes, the mac bundles were created by guys in their spare time just to save you the pain of compiling and building radiant manually on your machine, like we used to have to do. I feel your frustration though, almost all of the links to the old mapping tutorials that I used to use, which were once so helpful, have also seemed to have disappeared from the web.

I have done that already. I even did a clean install (downloaded again from website) on a different (new) computer and I still got that same issues.

Bonesetter · **Joined:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 5

I may have misunderstood your original question...

Are you unable to get 1.4 or 1.5 running? Or...are you having problems with NetRadiant? I'm unfamiliar with NetRadiant and have been using 1.4, as I don't need 1.5 for rtcw. Not sure I can be of much help if that's what you're trying to run as I've never attempted to install or use it. Neutral

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