[Radiance-general] Re: limited number of materials?

[Greg Ward]

Hi Lars,

You are correct about this.  There is a limit to the number of  
materials that may be included in the ambient exclude list (2047 in  
this case) or the trace set of rtrace (8192).  I could raise these  
limits in the distribution, or you could yourself by adding:

	-DMAXASET=N -DMAXTSET=M

to the build options in the makeall "rmake" script and recompiling.

All I was saying is that there is no fundamental limit to the number  
of times a material may be redefined.  You can say there is a limit  
with respect to the include/exclude settings, but this is not the  
same as a basic limit.  If Jelle wants to exclude his reused material  
name, then he may have a problem.

-Greg

> From: "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net>
> Date: November 15, 2007 8:39:26 AM PST
>
>> There is no limit on name reuse in Radiance.  Why would there be?
>
> I remember having had problems (rvu: too many modifiers in ambient  
> list) because I had redefined materials too often and excluded them  
> from ambient calculation later. I thought it was a problem of  
> material definitions / name, not the total number of definitions,  
> as even if there is only one material name, every definitions adds  
> an modifier id to the lists. Had I been wrong, was it the total  
> number (2047) of material definitions than?
>
> Thank you & CU, Lars.