[Radiance-general] Rendering with Radiance

[Kam Shing Leung]

Hi,
   
  I'm new to Radiance and am trying to follow Scene 1 in Rendering With Radiance (1998).  However, it fails to produce the same results.  The following problems occured:
   
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  Page 55 - I defined brown_satin_paint in the material1.rad file like what the book suggested in P.46.  When I tried to use the function "oconv", however, the following line appears:
   
  oconv: warning - (!genprism brown_satin_paint stool_leg_nw 4 ...... 0 0 2.5): empty file

  Page 55 - When I ran the "rview" function, either one of the following lines appeared:
   
  Unknown option argument: "-10"
  Unknown option argument: "-av"
  ***
   
  Is it that Radiance commands have been revised and the book becomes obsolete, or have I not installed the program properly (I run it in Fedora)?  Any suggestions on how I can learn Radiance more effectively? 
   
  Thanks a lot for your help!!
   
  Kam
   
   
   
  
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Today's Topics:

1. Download (Matthew Higgins)
2. Re: Download (Rob Guglielmetti)
3. Re: Download (Lars O. Grobe)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:25:45 -0700
From: Matthew Higgins 
Subject: [Radiance-general] Download
To: radiance-general at radiance-online.org
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I have attempted to down the free individual version of Radiance from 
the website and was unable to read a (.tar) file. Can anyone offer 
advice as to how I can download and run the program a few times before I 
purchase it?

-- 
Matthew Higgins, LEED AP
Technical Specialist
Environmental Dynamics, Inc.
Architecture and Sustainability Consulting Services
505.242.2851





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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:41:23 -0600
From: Rob Guglielmetti 
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Download
To: Radiance general discussion 
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Matthew Higgins wrote:
> I have attempted to down the free individual version of Radiance from 
> the website and was unable to read a (.tar) file. Can anyone offer 
> advice as to how I can download and run the program a few times before 
> I purchase it?
>
Radiance is actually free (and open source) software. Sounds like 
you're running Windows, in which case you might want to check out 
Desktop Radiance, which is a windows version of an older variant of 
Radiance running behind an Autocad GUI. Francesco Anselmo (a regular on 
this list) also maintains a set of Windows binaries based on the latest 
version of Radiance, but unfortunately that one does not include any of 
the graphical programs that you really need to start learning and using 
Radiance.

Be advised, there is no "radiance.exe" that you double-click and get a 
splash screen and a menu. Radiance is more of a collection of programs 
that you can string together to get various results. It's far from 
intuitive, but it is the most capable lighting visualization/simulation 
option out there. This list's archive is a good place to start getting 
a feel for what's possible (and what isn't), and there are some great 
(GREAT) tutorials here:

http://luminance.londonmet.ac.uk/learnix/docs/radtutorial_basic.pdf
http://luminance.londonmet.ac.uk/learnix/docs/radtutorial_advanced.pdf


Some more links for ya:
http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/
http://www.bozzograo.net/radiance/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=4

Good luck!

- Rob Guglielmetti




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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:50:31 +0200
From: "Lars O. Grobe" 
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Download
To: Radiance general discussion 
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IF you are looking for a GUI frontend including tools for e.g. 
maintaining libraries, you should have a look at Rayfront 
(www.schorsch.com). Rayfront is NOT free, but you can download a demo.

Lars.



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