[Radiance-general] Strange filetype naming when redering with radiance

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi Per,

I think that this is probably an issue relating to the scripting and not 
Radiance. I think that first thing to check is if there are carriage 
returns in the file (appearing as ^M), if so these need to be removed. 
What program are you using to create/edit your script? You should make 
sure that the editor is saving the files appropriately for Unix/Linux 
not DOS. You should be able to use the \ to continue a command to the 
next line without any problems....

Also you might want to add:

#!/bin/bash

to the head of your script. Then if you set the script file to be 
executable:

chmod u+x /scriptfilename/

you can run the script simply by typing its name at the command line 
rather than sourcing it.

-Jack


Per Haugaard wrote:
> Dear Lars, Jack and users,
>
> I use the bash shell in Ubuntu.
>
> Here is my simple scripting:
>
> ## Level 4
> ## make an illuminumce picture of the plane
> cat grids/level_4.xyz | rtrace -I -ab 4 -aa 0.05 -ar 128 -ad 512 -as 
> 256 -x 759 -y 1160 -af ambfiles/df.amb -fac 
> octrees/sav55_DF_LT70-60.oct > images/grid2illum_level_4.pic
>
> ## Decrease the size of the picture
> pfilt -1 -x /10 -y /10 images/grid2illum_level_4.pic > 
> images/grid2illum_level_4_resized.pic
>
> ## calculate the daylight factor for the picture grid2illum_resized.pic
> pcomb -e 'lo=li(1)/le(1)/10000*100' 
> images/grid2illum_level_4_resized.pic > 
> images/grid2illum_level_4_resized_df.pic
>
> ## falsecolor for the daylight factor picture grid2illum_resized_df.pic
> falsecolor -i images/grid2illum_level_4_resized_df.pic -s 11 -n 5.5 -l 
> "DF %" > images/grid2illum_level_4_resized_df_falsecolor.pic
>
> ## rm -f images/grid2illum_level_4.pic 
> images/grid2illum_level_4_resized.pic
>
> As mentioned in my prior mail the output of the first command is 
> grid2illum_level_4.pic?
>
> Any ideas? This does not happen when I enter other similar projects.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Per
>
> --- Den *tors 8/10/09 skrev Jack de Valpine /<jedev at visarc.com>/*:
>
>
>     Fra: Jack de Valpine <jedev at visarc.com>
>     Emne: Re: [Radiance-general] Strange filetype naming when redering
>     with radiance
>     Til: perhaugaard at yahoo.dk, "Radiance general discussion"
>     <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>     Dato: torsdag 8. oktober 2009 15.17
>
>     Hi Per,
>
>     Can you post the contents of your shell script? That way people
>     might be able to provide more input.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     -Jack de Valpine
>
>     Per Haugaard wrote:
>>     Dear users,
>>
>>     I hope this is the correct forum to post this question.
>>
>>     I have run stumble upon a strange problem rendering images with
>>     radiance.
>>
>>     I have made a simple file containing the different commands to be
>>     executed to render the images/data needed. When I execute this
>>     file (source xxx.cal) All the output files have a (?) added to
>>     the file type (e.g. grid.xyz? instead of grid.xyz). Furthermore I
>>     cannot use \ as line separation in my file anymore.
>>
>>     Does anyone have any experience with these types of errors?
>>
>>
>>     Best regards
>>
>>     Per Haugaard
>>
>>
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