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RCSid "$Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2012/04/25 22:21:06 greg Exp $" |
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Hello and welcome to the Radiance synthetic imaging system. This is |
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the nineteenth release, Version 4.2, and it includes all source files |
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for local compilation with a standard C compiler. To find out what's |
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new in this release, check the text file "doc/notes/ReleaseNotes". |
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Radiance is OpenSource software copyrighted and distributed by |
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. By downloading |
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and installing this software, you are implicitly agreeing to the |
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OpenSource license appended to this README file. Please read it |
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carefully before proceeding -- this is very different from previous |
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licenses, and contains fewer restrictions on commercialization. |
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Please read this entire file before sending e-mail asking |
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how to install this software or what to do with it. Some |
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frequently asked questions are answered here and also on our |
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website at: |
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http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/ |
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The CVS source tree is available, including post-release bug-fixes and |
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mailing lists access at: |
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http://www.radiance-online.org/ |
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The websites above should also have some precompiled Radiance binaries |
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and add-ons for common Unix platforms. |
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We have attempted to make it easy for you (and for us) to install |
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the software on differently configured systems using a global make |
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script. To install the software, just type: |
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./makeall install |
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You can clean up the .o files and so forth with: |
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./makeall clean |
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Or, if you are confident you can do both at the same time with: |
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./makeall install clean |
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You can give other make options at the end of the command as well. For |
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example, the -n option will tell you what makeall is going to do without |
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actually doing it. |
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If you downloaded the binaries, so compilation is not necessary, |
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run the following command to install the library files only: |
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./makeall library |
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The makeall may script ask you questions about your system and where you |
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want to install the executables and library files. The pathnames you |
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give should be relative to root for the programs to work properly. You |
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may also use the tilde ('~') character to give paths starting with |
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someone's home directory. |
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If you do NOT have X11 support, please read the note "noX11.help" in |
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this directory. It explains what to change to make things work. |
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Although it is set automatically by makeall, individuals may want to |
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set the RAYPATH environment variable manually. This variable tells |
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Radiance where to look for auxiliary files, and usually includes the |
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current directory as well as the system library (ray/lib in this |
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distribution). As you develop auxiliary files yourself, it is often |
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useful to add in your own library directory before the system directory. |
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An example setting such as this would go in a user's .login file: |
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setenv RAYPATH .:${HOME}/mylib:/usr/local/lib/ray |
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After installing the software, you may want to start by scanning the |
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troff input documentation contained in "doc/ray.1", which is also formatted |
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for web browsers in "doc/ray.html". |
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A PDF version of this manual may be found in |
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"doc/pdf/ray.pdf", along with an older tutorial by Cindy Larson, |
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"doc/pdf/raduser1_6.pdf". |
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For complete documentation on the system as of release 3.1, refer to |
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"Rendering with Radiance" by Larson and Shakespeare, which used to be |
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available from Morgan Kauffman Publishing. Recently, the authors have |
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taken over printing of the book, which is now available from booksurge.com. |
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You may find it linked to the Radiance website page: |
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http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/book/ |
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The first chapter of this book, which includes a basic tutorial and |
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serves as a good introduction for new users, may be found in |
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"doc/pdf/RwR01.pdf". |
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Important additions since version 3.1 include the holodeck programs (rholo, |
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etc., built in src/hd), glrad, ranimove, the new "mesh" primitive, |
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and rtcontrib. Again, check doc/notes/ReleaseNotes for details. |
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Individual manual pages may be found in the subdirectory "doc/man". |
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You may want to copy these to the system manual directory, or add this |
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directory to your MANPATH environment variable in your shell |
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initialization file. A good starting place is to print the text file |
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ray/doc/man/whatis, which gives a one line description of each program in |
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the Radiance package. To print out the manual pages, use the "-man" |
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macro package. |
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The most important program to learn about if you are a new user of Radiance |
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(or have not used this program before) is "rad". It controls Radiance |
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lighting parameters, and automates much of the rendering process. |
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To get started, change directory to obj/misc and try running: |
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% rad -o x11 daf.rif |
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This works if you are running X11. If you are not, you can still generate |
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an image with: |
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% rad daf.rif & |
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When the picture is done, you can convert it to another format for display |
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with any of the ra_* programs listed in the doc/whatis database. |
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There is a user interface built on top of this using Tcl/Tk, called trad. |
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If you do not have Tcl/Tk installed on your system, you must do so prior |
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to building this distribution if you want trad to install. (Try a google |
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search on "Tcl/Tk" or go to "http://www.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/".) |
