[Radiance-general] no output from optics2rad

[Chris Humann]

Hi Jack,

Thanks, good eye.   Unfortunately even with the material name fixed  
I'm still not getting output beyond the header.

Chris



On May 11, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Jack de Valpine wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> One problem that I see is the name of the two materials contains a  
> space after SB60. This would need to be fixed for a valid radiance  
> material name.
>
> -Jack
>
> Chris Humann wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I seem to have run into a similar issue as reported by Anne where  
>> optics2rad only sends out the header information of the optics  
>> file.   I've checked the optics file and it has the "."  you  
>> describe in the correct location:
>>
>> void  BRTDfunc    SB60 Starphire_8_front
>> 10
>>      0.050     0.057     0.073
>>      0.795     0.815     0.777
>>      0 0 0
>>      .
>> 0
>> 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>
>> void  BRTDfunc    SB60 Starphire_8_back
>> 10
>>      0.044     0.051     0.037
>>      0.795     0.815     0.777
>>      0 0 0
>>      .
>> 0
>> 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>
>>
>> Anyone else having the same results?
>> Thanks!
>> Best regards,
>> Chris Humann
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 9, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anne,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing the file.  For some reason, Optics dropped a  
>>> critical line from its output, making the actual scene description  
>>> illegal and breaking the optics2rad translator.  Both BRTDfunc  
>>> descriptors were missing a critical '.' in their description.   
>>> Yours look like this:
>>>
>>> void  BRTDfunc    ANTELIOSILVER6mm_front
>>> 10
>>>     0.267     0.321     0.395
>>>     0.678     0.655     0.576
>>>     0 0 0
>>>
>>> 0
>>> 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>
>>> when they should look like this:
>>>
>>> void  BRTDfunc    ANTELIOSILVER6mm_front
>>> 10
>>>     0.267     0.321     0.395
>>>     0.678     0.655     0.576
>>>     0 0 0
>>>     .
>>> 0
>>> 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>
>>> ------------
>>> I don't actually know what happened to the period, but reinserting  
>>> it, optics2rad works again, producing:
>>>
>>>
>>> void BRTDfunc ANTELIOSILVER6mm
>>> 10
>>>       rR_clear rG_clear rB_clear
>>>       0.678*tR_clear   0.655*tG_clear   0.576*tB_clear
>>>    0 0 0
>>>    window.cal
>>> 0
>>> 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>       0.267       0.321    0.395
>>>       0.24        0.306    0.368
>>>
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -Greg
>>>
>>>> From: Anne Iversen <iversen.anne at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: May 9, 2009 12:52:44 PM PDT
>>>>
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>> The optics-file is attached. I have also attached the output  
>>>> piped to a file from running optics2rad with -xv added to the  
>>>> first line of the script. The file contains the output from both  
>>>> stdout and stderr.
>>>> The csh is the standard version(from July 13 2007) supplied with   
>>>> Ubuntu.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> /Anne
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Greg Ward <gward at lmi.net> wrote:
>>>> Can you send me your Optics file?
>>>>
>>>> -Greg
>>>
>>> ---------
>>>
>>>> From: Greg Ward <gward at lmi.net>
>>>> Date: May 9, 2009 7:01:43 AM PDT
>>>>
>>>> Can you send me your Optics file?
>>>>
>>>> -Greg
>>>
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