[Radiance-general] Radiance Mac GUI?

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi,

just to add... there is a Blender extension for Radiance export in 
development, which will offer a preview, there is rshow (the radiance 
frontend-tools except trad have already been mentioned as well as 
rayfront)... Why not continuing one of the existing projects? And, 
first, define the project's goal...!

- rad-frontend (just like trad)? Setting rendering parameters and 
start? Sounds a bit like the renderpark-design...
- scene-viewer with real-time ability (radiance has rholo...)? Sounds 
like rshow for the Mac, which has (and needs, if you want to set 
view-parameters real-time) OpenGL support...
- project management (like rayfront)?
- frontend just to avoid the command-line (drag the .rif-file onto the 
myradiancerenderer-Icon)?

I personally would only need something like rshow on the Mac, as 
OpenGL-performance with support of textures etc is not available so 
far. Previewing is ok with rview. And one feature is really missing - 
and was afaik available in rshow: camera path generation. The bigger 
approach would be to integrate all the above into one project, like 
rayfront with OpenGL-preview...

BTW, to throw one more into the language-box, many Mac OS X apps use 
Java for the GUI... which would help to keep things portable... and 
there are even 3d-classes for Java... ;-)

CU Lars.
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Lars O. Grobe
grobe at gmx.net