[Radiance-general] installation of Radiance in lenny

[Lars O. Grobe]

> Well I am not getting any message at all...I just went to run command
> and gave 'rad'. But once again I am telling that 'nothing' is
> happening. Basically my problem is after installing it in lenny I am
> not able to start the interface of radiance from anywhere. Moreover it
> is not included in the applications under lenny.
>
>   
rad is a control program that renders views of a scene. You call it in
its most basic form

rad <rif-file>

It is nothing like a GUI or such. The only thing that ressembles a GUI
in radiance would be trad, and also that alone does not do much. There
are interfaces for blender and sketchup that allow you integration of
radiance into these tools, as well as the (commercial) rayfront from
www.schorsch.com, which is a more general GUI and Autocad integration
(free demo available).

Still, starting at the GUI is not reasonable, as 99% of the job in a
simulation is the model...

What are you planning to do with radiance?

And (again) did you look at the tutorial? It is a step by step introduction.

CU Lars.