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1 RCSid "$Id: README,v 1.4 2004/10/21 16:09:46 greg Exp $"
2
3 Hello and welcome to the Radiance synthetic imaging system. This is
4 the fourteenth release, Version 3.7, and it includes all source files
5 for local compilation with a standard C compiler. To find out what's
6 new in this release, check the text file "doc/notes/ReleaseNotes".
7
8 Radiance is OpenSource software copyrighted and distributed by
9 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. By downloading
10 and installing this software, you are implicitly agreeing to the
11 OpenSource license appended to this README file. Please read it
12 carefully before proceeding -- this is very different from previous
13 licenses, and contains fewer restrictions on commercialization.
14
15 Please read this entire file before sending e-mail asking
16 how to install this software or what to do with it. Some
17 frequently asked questions are answered here and also on our
18 web site at:
19
20 http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/
21
22 The CVS source tree is available, including post-release bug-fixes and
23 mailing lists access at:
24
25 http://www.radiance-online.org/
26
27 The websites above should also have some precompiled Radiance binaries
28 and add-ons for common Unix platforms.
29
30 We have attempted to make it easy for you (and for us) to install
31 the software on differently configured systems using a global make
32 script. To install the software, just type:
33
34 ./makeall install
35
36 You can clean up the .o files and so forth with:
37
38 ./makeall clean
39
40 Or, if you are confident you can do both at the same time with:
41
42 ./makeall install clean
43
44 You can give other make options at the end of the command as well. For
45 example, the -n option will tell you what makeall is going to do without
46 actually doing it.
47
48 If you downloaded the binaries, so compilation is not necessary,
49 run the following command to install the library files only:
50
51 ./makeall library
52
53 The makeall may script ask you questions about your system and where you
54 want to install the executables and library files. The pathnames you
55 give should be relative to root for the programs to work properly. You
56 may also use the tilde ('~') character to give paths starting with
57 someone's home directory.
58
59 If you do NOT have X11 support, please read the note "noX11.help" in
60 this directory. It explains what to change to make things work.
61
62 Although it is set automatically by makeall, individuals may want to
63 set the RAYPATH environment variable manually. This variable tells
64 Radiance where to look for auxiliary files, and usually includes the
65 current directory as well as the system library (ray/lib in this
66 distribution). As you develop auxiliary files yourself, it is often
67 useful to add in your own library directory before the system directory.
68 An example setting such as this would go in a user's .login file:
69
70 setenv RAYPATH .:${HOME}/mylib:/usr/local/lib/ray
71
72 After installing the software, you may want to start by scanning the
73 troff input documentation contained in "doc/ray.1", which is also formatted
74 for web browsers in "doc/ray.html".
75 A PDF version of this manual may be found in
76 "doc/pdf/ray.pdf", along with an older tutorial by Cindy Larson,
77 "doc/pdf/raduser1_6.pdf".
78
79 For complete documentation on the system as of release 3.1, refer to
80 "Rendering with Radiance" by Larson and Shakespeare, which used to be
81 available from Morgan Kauffman Publishing. Recently, the authors have
82 taken over printing of the book, which is now available from booksurge.com.
83 You may find it linked to the Radiance website page:
84
85 http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/book/
86
87 The first chapter of this book, which includes a basic tutorial and
88 serves as a good introduction for new users, may be found in
89 "doc/pdf/RwR01.pdf".
90
91 Important additions since version 3.1 include the holodeck programs (rholo,
92 etc., built in src/hd), glrad, ranimove, the new "mesh" primitive,
93 and rtcontrib. Again, check doc/notes/ReleaseNotes for details.
94
95 Individual manual pages may be found in the subdirectory "doc/man".
96 You may want to copy these to the system manual directory, or add this
97 directory to your MANPATH environment variable in your shell
98 initialization file. A good starting place is to print the text file
99 ray/doc/man/whatis, which gives a one line description of each program in
100 the Radiance package. To print out the manual pages, use the "-man"
101 macro package.
102
103 The most important program to learn about if you are a new user of Radiance
104 (or have not used this program before) is "rad". It controls Radiance
105 lighting parameters, and automates much of the rendering process.
106 To get started, change directory to obj/misc and try running:
107
108 % rad -o x11 daf.rif
109
110 This works if you are running X11. If you are not, you can still generate
111 an image with:
112
113 % rad daf.rif &
114
115 When the picture is done, you can convert it to another format for display
116 with any of the ra_* programs listed in the doc/whatis database.
117
118 There is a user interface built on top of this using Tcl/Tk, called trad.
119 If you do not have Tcl/Tk installed on your system, you must do so prior
120 to building this distribution if you ant trad to install. (Try a google
121 search on "Tcl/Tk" or go to "http://www.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/".)
122
123 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
124 The Radiance Software License, Version 1.0
125
126 Copyright (c) 1990 - 2002 The Regents of the University of California,
127 through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. All rights reserved.
128
129 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
130 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
131 are met:
132
133 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
134 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
135
136 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
137 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
138 the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
139 distribution.
140
141 3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
142 if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
143 "This product includes Radiance software
144 (http://radsite.lbl.gov/)
145 developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
146 (http://www.lbl.gov/)."
147 Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself,
148 if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
149
150 4. The names "Radiance," "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory"
151 and "The Regents of the University of California" must
152 not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
153 software without prior written permission. For written
154 permission, please contact [email protected].
155
156 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Radiance",
157 nor may "Radiance" appear in their name, without prior written
158 permission of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
159
160 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
161 WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
162 OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
163 DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory OR
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166 LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
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171 SUCH DAMAGE.
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173
174 This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
175 individuals on behalf of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For more
176 information on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, please see
177 <http://www.lbl.gov/>.