[Radiance-general] Combining Ambient Files

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

On 12/22/09 10:07 AM, "Mark de la Fuente" <MdelaFuente at wmtao.com> wrote:

> I'm running a simulation on a Cygwin (windows) computer.  Windows won't let us
> share the ambient file, so creating multiple views of large scenes takes
> longer to do, as processors sit idle. Is it possible to run multiple rpicts of
> the same octree, each one with a different view and associated ambient file,
> and then add the ambient files together for use in future runs?

Hi Mark,

You can do that with the lookamb utility. You use lookamb -h -d to print the
contents of the ambient file sans header to STDOUT, then pipe that back to
lookamb with -r to roll them all up into one ambient file.

- Rob