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SoftWish Installation Overview

SoftWish installs the base Tcl/Tk language as a separate product so that it can be used (without the SoftWish extensions) without using up a Softimage license.

The SoftWish extension files are copied from the CD into the Softimage directory. The following table shows what goes where. Note that only one subdirectory is copied to SI_LOCATION/3d/custom/bin: the irix subdirectory is copied on SGI machines, the winnt/alpha subdirectory on alpha machines and the winnt/i386 subdirectory on Intel machines.

Source directory (on CD)       Target directory (on hard disk).
SICustom       SI_LOCATION/3D/custom
  Actor       Actor
  Matter       Matter
  Model       Model
  Motion       Motion
  SoftWish       SoftWish
  tools       tools
SoftWishPlatformDependent        
  platform SoftWishDeveloper SoftWish.so,dll
Softtclsh.so,dll
  bin
  platform SoftWishChaos     SoftWish/SoftWishChaos
  platform VC_internals     SoftWish/VC_internals
  platform flexlm   SI_LOCATION/flexlm/bin
SoftWishDemoDatabase       SI_LOCATION/3D/databases

    In the above table note that:

  • platform can be Irix/4400, winnt/alpha or winnt/intel
  • Either SoftWishDeveloper or SoftWishRuntime gets installed, so only one SoftWish and Softtclsh shareable library gets installed.

    .softwishrc is the systemwide SoftWish initialization file. It is located in Softimage's \3D\custom\SoftWish\Scripts subdirectory. This file can be modified so as to allow for local (i.e. per user) customization .

    SoftWish installs for interactive use in all of Soft's modules by copying:
    ..\softwish\model\softwish.cus into SI_LOCATION\3D\custom\model. SoftWish will appear in the MODEL DISPLAY menu.
    ..\softwish\motion\softwish.cus into SI_LOCATION\3D\custom\motion. SoftWish will appear in the MOTION DISPLAY menu.
    ..\softwish\actor\softwish.cus into SI_LOCATION\3D\custom\actor. SoftWish will appear in the ACTOR DISPLAY menu.
    ..\softwish\matter\softwish.cus into SI_LOCATION\3D\custom\matter. SoftWish will appear in the MATTER DISPLAY menu.
    ..\softwish\tools\softwish.cus into SI_LOCATION\3D\custom\tools. SoftWish will appear in the TOOLS VIEWER menu.


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