[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance-general Digest, Vol 60, Issue 9

Sat Feb 14 16:41:58 PST 2009

Hi all,

I have fixed this same problem, instaling the old Desktop Radiance and
copyng from it the *rview.exe* and *winimage.exe* files to my new radiance
3.9 binaries folder. It works very fine.

Take care to install radiance in a folder with a name without spaces, it´s
sound silly but it´s important!

(eg: c:/radiance)

best

vangelis

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>   1. Exporting file from Ecotect to Radiance (Krystyna Zelenay)
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> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:57:27 -0800
> From: Krystyna Zelenay <kzelenay at berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [Radiance-general] Exporting file from Ecotect to Radiance
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> Hi,
>
> I have just uninstalled Desktop Radiance and installed the MinGW version on
> my computer (Windows OS). I have been informed that this is the latest
> version of Radiance for Windows OS. Unfortunately I now have trouble
> reading
> images exported from Ecotect.
>
> When I export the Ecotect example file "RADIANCE_example.eco" I am able to
> see a rendered view of the space in the image viewer, but I cannot run any
> of the options for the information overlay (e.g. contour lines, false
> color,
> daylight factors etc.) and get the message "RGBE read error"
> When exporting the file from Ecotect, I noticed that when checking whether
> Radiance is functional, the exporter returned a message saying that the
> application "rview" is missing from the directory. Could this be the
> problem? If so, what are alternative ways for evaluating the radiance
> image?
>
> I have uploaded an image of the error message to the Autodesk discussion
> forum:
>
> http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=6124907#6124907
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> Thanks,
>
> Krystyna
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> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:59:04 +0800
> From: "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Exporting file from Ecotect to
>        Radiance
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> Hi,
>
> the subject-line of this mail is not very helpful. What kind of file do
> you want to export from Ecotect? I try to understand what you wrote, and
> it seams that you want to use the image processing tools of Radiance on
> images generated in Ecotect, is this the case? I also do not know which
> "image viewer" you refer to, the only image viewer in Radiance that I am
> aware of is ximage, and it offers no such things like your information
> overlay functionality, as this is done by filters in Radiance. So I
> guess you are using other software here, not Radiance.
>
> Can you please find out some details about what kind of data you want to
> process using which Radiance tools?
>
> Good luck, Lars.
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>
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> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:30:43 +0000
> From: Thomas Bleicher <tbleicher at arcor.de>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Exporting file from Ecotect to
>        Radiance
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> Hi Krystyna.
>
>
> On 14 Feb 2009, at 01:57, Krystyna Zelenay wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just uninstalled Desktop Radiance and installed the MinGW
> > version on my computer (Windows OS). I have been informed that this
> > is the latest version of Radiance for Windows OS. Unfortunately I
> > now have trouble reading images exported from Ecotect.
> > When I export the Ecotect example file "RADIANCE_example.eco" I am
> > able to see a rendered view of the space in the image viewer, but I
> > cannot run any of the options for the information overlay (e.g.
> > contour lines, false color, daylight factors etc.) and get the
> > message "RGBE read error"
> >
> Unfortunately 'falsecolor' (which is the master tool behind most
> of these overlays) is not distributed with the MinGW binaries
> because it is a CSH-script that does not run on Windows. Therefore
> the ImageViewer bundled with Ecotect can not generate this type
> of analysis.
>
> There is another picture viewer around which is based on
> Python and that seems to be the best option to create
> falsecolor images on Windows at the moment:
>
> Raddisplay - http://www.deluminaelab.com/en/tools.html
>
> It requires some time to setup, though.
>
> > When exporting the file from Ecotect, I noticed that when checking
> > whether Radiance is functional, the exporter returned a message
> > saying that the application "rview" is missing from the directory.
> > Could this be the problem? If so, what are alternative ways for
> > evaluating the radiance image?
>
> The application 'rview' is now called 'rvu' and AFAIK it has
> not been ported to Windows.
>
>
> There have been some significant changes to the Radiance
> applications since Desktop Radiance has been released. This
> affects mostly the rendering process, though. The image format
> is still the same and you should be able to open a 'new'
> image in the old 'rview'. You could try to copy the missing
> applications from your DR installation over to the MinGW
> installation and see if that solves your problem.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
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