[Radiance-general] Radiance, objline, objpict etc..

[Greg Ward]

Hi Steve,

This is additional information to what Thomas wrote.  You can  
manually set the MDIR environment variable to the actual path on your  
system.  (Note that this variable only takes a single path directory,  
which must end with '/'.)  The objpict script does seem to be hard- 
coded, which is a mistake you can correct as Thomas suggested by  
editing the file.

Best,
-Greg

> From: steve michel <smichel_designer at hotmail.com>
> Date: January 23, 2008 4:33:04 PM PST
>
> I was running test renders to determine some electric lighting  
> levels at a back wall: I had run ies2rad for the fixtures and  
> associated the distribution to simple flat geometry to the same  
> plane as the ceiling. When I render I don't 'see' the lights so I  
> ran objline and objpict to check that the geometry of fixtures are  
> there
> and get the following errors:
>
> $ objline Scene_1.rad | x11meta
> fatal - cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/ray/meta/vchars.mta", mode  
> "r"
>
> $ objpict Scene_1.rad | ximage
> oconv: system - cannot open scene file "/usr/local/lib/ray/lib/ 
> testroom": No such file or directory
>
>
> SO I guess I have a  two part question:
>
> 1- My setenv variables don't point to the directories  shown  
> above..so why is objline and objpict calling those locations
> and
> 2-Could someone clarify the visibility of lighting distributions  
> in  radiance. below is the fixture rad file