[Radiance-general] proposed feature: interpreting view names in rad

[Thomas Bleicher]

Have you considered using ranimate here?

Thomas

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Lars O. Grobe<lars.grobe at nus.edu.sg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure whether this would break anything, but it would be a rather
> useful way of organizing renderings:
>
> At the moment, I can pass a view name to rad using the -v parameter, and
> this will cause exactly one view to be rendered, which must have been named
> in the view= line in the rif file.
>
> Now, this view= line can point to a view file, which may contain more then
> one view. I would have expected rad to render all the views in that file,
> but as -v is defined to render exactly one view, rad takes only one of the
> views defined in the view file and ignores the others.
>
> I would propose to change this behaviour. If I call rad e.g. as
>
> rad -v myview myoctree.oct
>
> it would be very useful if rad would look whether it finds a view= line for
> myview. If it finds one defining one view, render that. If it finds one
> pointing to a view file, render all the views in that view file. If I call
> rad as
>
> rad -v anotherview -v myview myoctree.oct
>
> it should render all views defined in the view= lines for anotherview and
> myview, be it view files or view definitions inside the rif.
>
> One reason this would be helpful is as such: I am currently working on a
> scene, which needs some view-dependent processing. So I have a script which
> does some work, cleans up, creates an octree, creates photon maps, and then
> calls rad. Now I would like to call the same rif-file for all of these, as
> it eventually contains the same information for all renderings except the
> views. And I cannot render all views at once, as I have to modify the octree
> before moving to the next "view group" (this translates to rooms in my
> example).
>
> I am sure that there are other uses for this. What do you think? Is there
> any way people may have used the -v parameter that could imply the risk of
> breaking compatibility by introducing such a change?
>
> Cheers Lars.
>
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