Tutorials

Before you get started with Radiance

• Unix for Radiance (by Axel Jacobs) - an introduction to Unix for new Radiance users without Unix command line experience.
• Mac OSX intro (by Gulio Antonutto and Andy McNeil) - an introduction to Mac OS X for Radiance users who are new to the mac operating system.
• Unix and Radiance (by Gulio Antonutto and Andy McNeil) - an introduction to Unix for Mac users.

Basic Tutorials

• 

  Radiance Tutorial

  Radiance Tutorial (by Axel Jacobs) - A basic tutorial to get started with Radiance.
• Radiance Primer (by Gulio Antonutto and Andy McNeil) - An overview of Radiance primitives, commands and workflow.
• Scene 0 Tutorial - A simple room found in section 1.3 of the Introduction chapter of Rendering with Radiance (This chapter is provided free online).
• Basic rendering tutorial with Radiance (by Dion Moult) - A short tutorial on how to Render an OBJ mesh with Radiance from the command line, with a camera angle calculated from Blender.

Intermediate Tutorials

• Radiance Cookbook (by Axel Jacobs) - more advanced modeling and lighting analysis techniques.
• Scene 1 Tutorial (from Rendering with Radiance) - This tutorial guides the user through modeling the corner of a cafe

  

  Scene 2 - Gallery

  .  It is found in Chapter 2 of Rendering with Radiance.  You'll needto purchase the book for this tutorial.
• Scene 2 Tutorial (from Rendering with Radiance) - This tutorial guides users through modeling an art gallery.  It is especially useful for understanding Radiance's complex surface generators.  The tutorial is found in Chapter 3 of Rendering with Radiance.  You'll need to purchase the book for this tutorial
• Create 360 VR panoramas with Radiance (by Dion Moult) - describes how to create sphere maps, equirectangular panoramas, and cube maps from Radiance for use in virtual reality.

Advanced Tutorials

• genBSDF Tutorial (by Andy McNeil) - Using genBSDF to create BSDF files for complex fenestrations systems.
• Photon map user manual (by Roland Schregle) - describes the implementation and use of the forward raytracing photon map in Radiance.
• Daylighting Simulations with Radiance using Matrix-based Methods (by Sarith Subramaniam) - The most up-to-date work flows for performing matrix-based daylighting simulations. The zip file to run examples in the tutorial is also provided.

Deprecated Tutorials:

• 

  Tregenza sky dome

  rtcontrib lesson (by Axel Jacobs) - Using rtcontrib to compute daylight coefficients for annual daylight simulations.
• Three-Phase Method Tutorial (by Andy McNeil) - Using rtcontrib and new BSDF capabilities to perform annual daylight simulation for complex fenestration systems (i.e. daylight redirecting and dynamic shading systems).
• Five-Phase Method Tutorial (by Andy McNeil) - improving accuracy for direct sun in annual simulations with CFS.  A bash script to run and time the examples is also provided.