[Radiance-general] How to generate translucent plastic with TMesh2Rad

[Greg Ward]

Hi Ling,

The smoothing functions of tmesh2rad and gensurf should work adequately 
with all material types, including trans and trans2.  Prior to the 3.5 
official release, there was a bug in the code that caused the surfaces 
to look wrong when viewed from the backside, but this was fixed about a 
year ago.  If you are using Desktop Radiance or an older release of the 
software, this could be your problem.

-Greg

> From: "Ling Xiao" <xiaoling@berkeley.edu>
> Date: February 23, 2004 11:09:37 PM PST
>
Dear Sir,
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I was wondering how you would create a translucent smooth surface that 
will respond well to the triangle smoothing of TMesh2Rad.
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I have tried Trans, Trans2 without success, and have found very little 
documentation on transfunc, which I believe is the correct way to 
approach this problem.
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Thank you for your time,
Yours truly,
Ling Xiao