Problem solved somehow. (Re: [Radiance-general] instance problem?)

Gregory J. Ward gregoryjward at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 18:14:36 CEST 2005


It's a shame we'll never know what caused this problem, whether it was 
the model or a bug....

> From: Lars O. Grobe <grobe at gmx.net>
> Date: April 18, 2005 5:26:28 AM PDT
>
> Hi again.
>
> I've changed the scripts which build my model. I had a hierarchical 
> structure of nested octrees (instances), which were not really good. I 
> had used this structure as I wanted to "bundle" geometry into some 
> more cubic-like clusters. In fact, I did the opposite as I later 
> "invented" the use of ximage to repeat objects - the result was that 
> the octree contained not this "cube-like" block, but all the instances 
> of this block - and thus this octree was not cube-like any more.
>
> Now I use instances only on a lower level, for small objects, and use 
> xform everywhere else. The errors are gone, as there are fewer 
> overlappings of octrees now.
>
> CU and thanks a lot, Lars.




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