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This help file is associated with the trad interface to the Radiance |
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rad(1) program. Trad consists of trad.wsh and one do_*.tcl file for |
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each screen. There are currently seven such screens: Action, File, |
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Options, Results, Scene, Views and Zone. |
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each screen. There are currently seven such screens: File, Scene, |
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Zone, Views, Options, Action and Results. |
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.Trad.Intro |
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curiosity in the main trad window. |
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(In general, only active windows are given help file links -- click |
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on these rather than the text labels.) |
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Additional search capabilities are available over all topics using |
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the "Grep" button. |
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For help on the help facility itself, Control-click on the problem |
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help widget or on the window title in the upper right corner for |
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(To get back to trad-specific help, press the "HELP" button in the |
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main trad window or Control-click on a trad widget.) |
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Once the help window has been displayed, it is usually best to |
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lower or iconify it rather than dismissing it if further help is |
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needed. |
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This way, you will not have to wait for the help file to be read in |
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all over again every time you have a question. |
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.Trad.Messages |
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Informative messages, commands executed by rad, and errors |
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Normally, progress reports and errors during batch renderings |
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are sent to the error file given by the root of the rad input |
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file name followed by the ".err" suffix. |
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(See the "Errors" topic under the "Action" screen category.) |
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(See the "CheckErr" topic under the "Action" screen category.) |
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If you wish these reports and errors to be directed to a different |
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file, follow the time interval by a space and a file name. |
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Other views may be accessed within rview using the "L name" |
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command, and new views can be added with the "V name" |
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command. |
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(See the rview(1) man page and the "View" topic in the current |
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help category for more information.) |
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When using the "V" command to change an existing view, do not |
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give it an existing name because the previous view will not be overridden. |
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Instead, give it a new name (or no name, which will show up as |
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a number later), then use the Views screen to override the previous |
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view definition with the new one. |
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(See the "View" topic in the current |
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help category, the "Change" topic under "Views" and the rview(1) |
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manual page for more information.) |
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If the octree is out-of-date, it will be rebuilt before rendering |
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begins. |
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If the special entry "ALL" is selected, then every view in the |
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current list will be rendered if it hasn't been already. |
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The view menu next to the "rview" button will be disabled if there |
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is only one view to choose from. |
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The view menu next to the "Start" button will be disabled if there |
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is a batch job in progress, and thus the view cannot be changed. |
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The batch rendering view menu also selects the view or views |
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to use in producing a script during a dry run. |
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the error file periodically. |
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(This file is named by the root of the rad input file followed by |
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".err".) |
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When a batch process is started or already running, this button |
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will be disabled. |
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When a batch process is started or already running, or when a |
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process is on another host and its status is unknown, |
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this button will be disabled. |
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The background process can be killed during this or later |
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invocations of trad using the "Kill" button. |
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If the process was started on another machine and the status is unknown, |
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it will be necessary to run trad from the other host or remove the error |
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file manually before starting a background process on this machine. |
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This is to protect you from the great confusion that results when two |
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machines are working from the same project file. |
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.Action.Kill |
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rendering, though some new startup costs will be incurred. |
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The "Kill" button is disabled if no running batch process is |
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detected. |
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detected on the current host machine. |
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.Action.CheckErr |
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