O M G.  Obviously every single step of this process is going to be a nightmare.  I did get Matmatic.  I did install and verify that everything went into the right folders.  Navigated to compile.py and ran it.  Have the button.  Push it.  Some things happen.  I have demo materials in the materials runtime.  That's it.  That's all that I can get to happen.

I'm obviously missing something, because I'm sure Matmatic does more to help with materials than add a few demo materials to my runtimes.  

Read through all the documentation.  I don't see what I am missing.  

Is Matmatic suppose to be just for writing scripts?  I'm getting a headache.

I am:  aka Velocity3d