[Radiance-general] RE: Difference...

[Marcus Jacobs]

Ali,

To add to what Jack mentioned, if you wish to use the Desktop Radiance 
AutoCad front end and still use a more recent version of Radiance, you can 
try replacing the Desktop Radiance binaries (usually located in 
c:\Radiance\bin) with the Windows binaries compiled by Francesco Anselmo  
(select "Mingw Radiance Binaries"):

http://www.bozzograo.net/radiance/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=4

I think that these binaries are compiled from either Radiance version 3.6 or 
3.7. You can not run the cygwin binaries directly from the Desktop Radiance 
front end. You will have to export the geometry from DR and run the binaries 
from cygwin's BASH shell. However, if you use the Windows binaries compiled 
by Francesco, you should be able to run these binaries (e.g. rad, oconv, 
rpict, rtrace, etc) directly from DR. However, it should be noted that you 
will not be able to use DR's winrview with octrees that are built with the 
Francesco's Windows binaries.


Marcus



>From: Jack de Valpine >
>Hi Ali,
>
>As I understand it, the active development for Desktop Radiance ceased
>some time ago. It uses an older version of the Radiance simulation
>engine than what is currently available in the standard Radiance
>distribution. If you want something with a front end gui you might take
>a look at Rayfront (www.schorsch.com) otherwise there are compiles of
>Radiance binaries  for cygwin (www.cygwin.com) which runs under windows.
>The current version of Radiance has quite a few powerful new features
>and enhancements that the older version does not.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>-Jack
>
>sasa mj wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks alot for the responses that came from Jack de Valpine & Giulio
> > Antonutto.
> > I am currenting experimenting with Desktop Radiance 2.0 Beta. How
> > accurate is this compared to the Unix based Radiance. Is there a
> > difference in outputs?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ali.
> >