[Radiance-general] Luminaire octree

[Zack Rogers]

I am happy to say, after minor brain damage, that I successfully created 
my luminaire block.  My problem, initially, was due to the Radiance 
limitation that light cannot be included in an instance.  My problem 
with the workaround, any of those discussed I think would work - just 
different ways of assembling the pieces, was that I was refering to a 
*.rad file in a my "./parts" directory.  However, inside the *.rad file 
were references to my "./scene" directory which is not a subdirectory of 
"parts" but at the same level.  My RAYPATH definition has the current 
directory "." as a path and so it was simply not finding the files...a 
mistake I probably would have noticed sooner had I not been using a 
Radiance interface (rayfront) and a mistake I probably would have never 
noticed had I not jumped behind the scenes.

Don't know if this will help anyone, but thought I'd post to resolve 
this thread.  Thanks for all the help!
Zack

BTW- Georg, in Rayfront if people try to create "parts" as rad files 
rather than octrees and then replmark them I think it will result in the 
same problem.


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Zack Rogers
Engineer / Daylighting Designer
Architectural Energy Corporation
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