[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance Software

[Greg Ward]

Hi André,

I forwarded your question to the radiance-general discussion list,  
asking if anyone there is on the Good Lighting forum.  Since no one  
responded as yet, I assume they're either busy or the overlap is the  
empty set.  It might behoove you to subscribe to radiance-general at  
www.radiance-online.org so you can get future questions answered there.

Radiance is well-supported on Mac OS X, and the precompiled 3.8  
"universal" binaries with instructions on installation may be found  
at the main website:

	http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/download.html

You should download both the complete distribution with source code  
and the rad3R8_macosx.tar.gz link.  Once you unpack the main  
distribution, you'll want to run "makealll library" from a Terminal  
window in the main "ray" directory.  Then, move the unpacked binaries  
to a /usr/local/bin or similar directory and add this to your shell's  
path.  Radiance is a suite of command-line tools, so if you are  
unfamiliar with Terminal and X11, they will undoubtedly give you  
trouble.

The best reference for the system is still "Rendering with Radiance,"  
edited by Larson and Shakespeare.  Charles Ehrlich, the author of the  
lighting chapter, worked diligently to make this book available  
through a print-on-demand service, which seems to have dropped us at  
the moment, so getting a copy is problematic.  I suggest you write to  
Amazon (see <http://tinyurl.com/ycajwm>) or BookSurge.com telling  
them you would like one if you don't have the book already.

Best of luck.
-Greg

> Mac Intel OS X lighting calc software - 01-22-2007, 12:50 AM
>
> So, I've switched to a Mac Intel, running AutoCAD with no problems,  
> all is well in the world.
>
> Seeing how OS X is Unix based, has anyone installed Radiance on  
> their machine (with success, of course)? Can you talk me through  
> it? Having switched (happily, I might add) to Mac recently, I have  
> no Unix experience and am looking for some guidance.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> André Lucero
> Lucero Design
> San Francisco
> www.lucerodesign.com