How Can I Render on a Newer Macintosh?

[GandalfofHoth]

I've been trying various ways to do it but, Blender won't work because the lightwave convertor is an .exe file, and POVray won't work because it's only supported on a PowerPC Mac, I know there must be a way out there, but I can't seem to find it, can somebody please tell me how I can render my my bricksmith files (.ldr)?

[deraven]

Short answer, but this may be all you need: Open the LDR/LXF file with the Mac version of LDView (here: http://ldview.sourceforge.net/ ), and export to a POV render file from there. Then you can use the Mac port of POV-Ray (there are ports here that work on modern Macs, though I haven't tried it since I upgraded to Yosemite) to do the actual render (available here: http://megapov.ineta...unofficial_mac/ ).

[GandalfofHoth]

Thank you! I rendered an old spiral I made a while back to test.

[deraven]

Nice - glad you're up and running again!

[supertruper1988]

You can also us BlueRender I use it all day on my mac.

[Umbra-Manis]

You can also us BlueRender I use it all day on my mac.

Bluerender is currently LDD only. For .ldr try LDraw2Sunflow.