[Radiance-general] Re: rtcontrib - rad3R9_linux

[Gregory J. Ward]

Just to let everyone else know, this issue was resolved off-list.   
Germain was inadvertently accessing version 3.5 of rtcontrib, which  
had a bug under Linux that was fixed long ago.

-Greg

> From: Greg Ward <gward at lmi.net>
> Date: November 10, 2008 11:49:12 AM PST
>
> Hi Germain,
>
> The "too many modifiers" probably means that the mirrorfull_mat is  
> being reused many times in your file.  You should define the  
> material once somewhere and reuse it in our your included scene files.
>
> As for the nothing output, this is of course suspicious, but  
> without seeing your input files, quite impossible to diagnose.   
> Perhaps you could send those my way in an off-list e-mail and I'll  
> take a look.
>
> Best,
> -Greg
>
>> From: Germain Augsburger <germain.augsburger at epfl.ch>
>> Date: November 10, 2008 1:26:56 AM PST
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I just updated my Radiance version by installing the latest one  
>> available on
>> radsite.lbl.gov/radiance (rad3R9). I tried to run rtcontrib, but  
>> nothing
>> happened. Neither an error nor a result, and no processor  
>> activity. I didn't
>> see anything discussing this issue in the archives, so I would be  
>> grateful for
>> your help! Here are a couple of lines describing my attempts:
>> ...