--- ray/doc/man/man1/pkgBSDF.1 2011/06/23 18:11:17 1.1 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/pkgBSDF.1 2015/08/18 15:23:38 1.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid $Id: pkgBSDF.1,v 1.1 2011/06/23 18:11:17 greg Exp $ +.\" RCSid $Id: pkgBSDF.1,v 1.4 2015/08/18 15:23:38 greg Exp $ .TH PKGBSDF 1 6/23/2011 RADIANCE .SH NAME pkgBSDF - package BSDFs provided as XML for Radiance @@ -15,11 +15,19 @@ pkgBSDF - package BSDFs provided as XML for Radiance takes one or more XML files, each describing the bidirectional scattering distribution function of a surface or geometric system, and packages them into RADIANCE scene descriptions. +If the input file(s) do not begin with a '.' or '/', the directories +in the RAYPATH environment variable will be searched. One rectangle is produced for each BSDF that has no detail geometry and/or no rear-side reflectance distribution. If both front and back reflectance distributions are present with detail geometry, then two rectangles will be used to sandwich the geometry extracted from the BSDF file. +The front surface will always be centered just in front of the +origin facing the positive Z-direction, with "up" in the positive +Y-direction. +The back surface, if present, will parallel the front surface at +a distance slightly greater than the BSDF system thickness. +Scene units will always be in meters. .PP The .I \-i @@ -32,7 +40,7 @@ references to the same complex BSDF object. Normally, .I pkgBSDF produces one RADIANCE scene file for each XML input, replacing -the required '.xml' suffix with '.rad' in the same directory. +the required '.xml' suffix with '.rad' and writing to the current directory. The .I \-s option sends the RADIANCE scene description to the standard