[Radiance-general] Radiance on Cygwin: Starting problems

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi Ramana,

Can you confirm if you can get something like an xterm started from 
cygwin? This would be one way to confirm the installation of X.

-Jack

Ramana Koti wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Thanks Kirk, I had made the "void bright light" mistake which I 
> corrected to successfully create the octree file.
>
> Coming to the second error:
>
> $rview -vp 2.25 .375 1 -vd -.25 .125 -.125 -av .5 .5 .5 test.oct
> I get a windows pop up error message saying rvu.exe - Unable to locate 
> component, This application has failed to start because cybX11-6.dll 
> was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>
> My installation folder "C:\radiance_stuff\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin" 
> contains only a run.exe file and nothing else. I rerun the setup with 
> X11R6 selected and the message at the end says "nothing needed to be 
> installed". Does that mean the file is missing from the installation 
> itself? What can I do to correct the situation?
>
> Ramana.
>
>
>
> On 3/4/06, *Kirk Thibault* <kthibault at biomechanicsinc.com 
> <mailto:kthibault at biomechanicsinc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On page 21 of RwR, the input file <room.rad> specifies a light
>     definition of:
>
>     ************
>
>     # this is the material for my light source
>
>     void light bright
>     0
>     0
>     3 100 100 100
>
>     ************
>
>     The structure for the definition is
>
>     MODIFIER TYPE ID
>     0
>     0
>     3 R G B
>
>     i.e.,  "light" is the type and "bright" is the id.
>
>     Make sure you did not accidentally type:
>
>     "void bright light"  [that is, switched "bright" and "light" by
>     accident] on the first line of the definition.
>
>     Hope this helps, been there done that!
>
>     Kirk
>
>     On Mar 4, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Ramana Koti wrote:
>
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I am a graduate student at Arizona State University and I am going
>     > to use Radiance for my thesis. The computer maintenance guy at
>     > school here helped me install Cygwin on my notebook computer and
>     > Radiance on top of it. I have just begun to learn Radiance and when
>     > I input a simple room as specified in the Introduction chapter
>     > 1.3.1 of the book "Rendering with Radiance" by Greg Ward Larson and
>     > Rob Shakespeare, I get the following errors:
>     >
>     > $ oconv room.rad > test.oct
>     >  oconv: fatal - <room.rad>: unknown type "bright"
>     >
>     > $rview -vp 2.25 .375 1 -vd -.25 .125 -.125 -av .5 .5 .5 test.oct
>     > I get a windows pop up error message saying rvu.exe - Unable to
>     > locate component, This application has failed to start because
>     > cybX11-6.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix
>     > this problem.
>     >
>     > I used the NoteTab Light text editor to create the file room.rad.
>     >
>     > Any advice on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated. If
>     > somebody with working knowlege of Cygwin/Radiance lives around
>     > Tempe/Phoenix/Mesa (Arizona State), I would like to get my notebook
>     > computer to you to make sure everything needed is installed
>     > properly. Please help.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Venkata Ramana Koti
>     >
>     > MS in Building Design (Energy/Climate)
>     > School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
>     > College of Design
>     > Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287
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