[Radiance-general] objview & rvu -n

[Greg Ward]

Sure, Rob.

Just add "-N 4" to the "set opts=" line near the top of objview.  The  
rad program passes whatever is set with -N to the new rvu -n option.

As for using a saved view, the syntax:

	objview -v "-vf myview.vf" octree

should work, but it doesn't because I forgot to put quotes around the  
argument to the -v option.  On line 35 of objview, fix it to:

	set vw="$argv[1]"

Hopefully, that will work.  (I'll fix this for the next release and  
add a -N option as well.)

-Greg

> From: Rob Guglielmetti <rpg at rumblestrip.org>
> Date: November 20, 2008 3:34:02 PM PST
>
> Hi Greg, et al.,
>
> I have been playing with the new -n (#proc) switch you added to  
> rvu.  That is really, really nice.  I use objview all the time to  
> preview scenes, set views and check geometry, and the speedup on  
> our quad core machines is really great!  I thought I might be able  
> to hack objview to support this new switch, but it looks like  
> objview relies on rad to create the scene and defaults to x11 as  
> the output, spawning rvu.  Is there a way to pass the number of  
> processors available to the new rvu, via an objview command?
> I see you can also pass one of the standard rad views in lieu of  
> the default XYZ; is there a way to specify a saved view, or is this  
> a limitation of the way the script is all pipelined through rad?   
> This is the first time I've really looked at the objview script,  
> and I don't immediately see a way to get the desired options sent  
> to rvu.