[Radiance-general] su2rad - v1.0 alpha release announcement

[Terrance McMinn]

Hello Thomas,

Must say, I love your exporter.

I have my (undergraduate Architecture and Interior Architecture)
students using it for a project this week. 

Systems: Microsoft XP/Pro | Linux Kubuntu 8.10 via vmplayer

I have noticed the following issues:
1) Path name: will not export if there are spaces in the path name.
2) Parallel views are exported as vtv (perspective) rather than (vtl)
and the view height seems to be very high compared to the camera height
when the view was set.

For the future...
Would be useful to document how to add new sky programs...

We use the genrad program (Simon Crone
http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=1313
3&local_base=gen01-era02 pages 49-54)
http://www.radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-general/2007-February/
004202.html which adds the a new option for skies. According to the
author genrad supplies the direct and diffuse radiation to the standard
gensky/gendaylit programs to produce better accuracy than the CIE skies.
Parameters include altitude and turbity.
  genrad -a xxx -o xxx -m xxx -O 0

examples
  !gensky 6 21 14:0 -c -a -31.9330 -o -115.8330 -m -120.0 | xform -rz
-180.00
  !genrad 6 21 14:0 -c -a -31.9330 -o -115.8330 -m -120.0 -O 0 | xform
-rz -180.00


Your efforts are very much appreciated.

Regards 

Terrance Mc Minn
School of Built Environment
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U 1987 Perth 6845
Western Australia
Phone: 08 9266 7175
Fax: 08 9266 2711
E-mail: T.Mcminn at curtin.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)

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