Operation not permitted on MacOS Ventura with the render pipeline

Installation
1

Hello everyone,

I invested in a MacBook Pro M2. Ventura 13.2.1 is installed.
I installed Panda3D like this:

pip3 install panda3d==1.10.13

Panda3D is in /Library/Developer/Panda3D

I installed the render pipeline like this:

angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO ~ % pip3 install pip install https://github.com/kitsune-ONE-team/RenderPipeline/releases/download/v1.3.3/render_pipeline-1.3.3-py3-none-any.whl
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting render-pipeline==1.3.3
  Downloading https://github.com/kitsune-ONE-team/RenderPipeline/releases/download/v1.3.3/render_pipeline-1.3.3-py3-none-any.whl (46.4 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 46.4/46.4 MB 43.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (23.2.1)
Collecting install
  Downloading install-1.3.5-py3-none-any.whl (3.2 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: panda3d in /Library/Developer/Panda3D (from render-pipeline==1.3.3) (1.10.13)
Installing collected packages: render-pipeline, install
  WARNING: The scripts day_time_editor, material_editor and plugin_configurator are installed in '/Users/angelo/Library/Python/3.9/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed install-1.3.5 render-pipeline-1.3.3
angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO ~ %

angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO projet_galerie360 % export PATH=$PATH:~/Library/Python/3.9/bin
angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO projet_galerie360 % 

angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO ~ % echo $PATH                                
/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin://Library/Developer/Panda3D/bin:/Users/angelo/Library/Python/3.9/bin

I’m trying to run a simple script and I’m getting rights issues:

runfile('/Users/angelo/Documents/projet_galerie360/essai_render_pipeline_pour_questions_forums_panda3d.py', wdir='/Users/angelo/Documents/projet_galerie360')
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File /Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/spyder_kernels/py3compat.py:356 in compat_exec
    exec(code, globals, locals)

  File ~/Documents/projet_galerie360/essai_render_pipeline_pour_questions_forums_panda3d.py:10
    from panda3d.core import load_prc_file_data

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1007 in _find_and_load

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:982 in _find_and_load_unlocked

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:925 in _find_spec

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1423 in find_spec

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1392 in _get_spec

  File <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1356 in _path_importer_cache

PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

How to do ?

2

I implemented Miniconda3 (latest) … with Python 3.11.4 but I get:

(galerie360_py) angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO ~ % cd /Users/angelo/Documents/projet_galerie360 
(galerie360_py) angelo@MBP-de-ANGELO projet_galerie360 % python essai_render_pipeline.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/angelo/Documents/projet_galerie360/essai_render_pipeline.py", line 19, in <module>
    from panda3d.core import load_prc_file_data, PNMImage # Vec3, PerspectiveLens, PandaNode, NodePath, TextNode, Texture
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'panda3d.core'

How to make it finally work in MacOS ? (regardless of the method).

3

I do not believe that RenderPipeline is able to work on macOS due to limitations in Apple’s graphics drivers.

4

Thank you for your answer. It’s damn annoying, I had high hopes of testing my project under MacOS (for me Ventura). However, machines equipped with the M2 graphics chip perform very well according to tests…

5

Perhaps when the Vulkan back-end is finished, or if someone develops a Metal back-end for Panda, it will be possible to run RenderPipeline on macOS.

The problem is that the OpenGL drivers do not support compute shaders.