[Radiance-general]Genklemsamp

[Chris Humann]

Thanks Andy!
I had figured I was overlooking something like that.

The routine runs now, but am getting a different warning after running  
dctimestep:
warning - unexpected data at end of binary file window.dmx



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On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Andy McNeil wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> You need to add -m 2 to your genskyvec command.  The -m argument in  
> genskyvec should agree with -e MF:  setting in the rtcontrib command  
> that creates the daylight matrix.
> Andy
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Chris Humann wrote:
>
>> I've been tinkering with Genklemsamp to generate a daylight matrix  
>> file of a window for input into Dctimestep.  I'm using a simple 15'  
>> x15' x 10' room with a single, south facing window and run  
>> Genklemsamp as follows:
>> $ genklemsamp -vd 0 -1 0 -vu 0 0 1 -c 20000 material.rad window.rad  
>> | rtcontrib -c 20000 -e MF:2 -faf -f reinhart.cal -b rbin -bn  
>> Nrbins -m sky_glow @render.opt  isotropic_sky.oct > window.dmx
>>
>> The above seems to go through it's paces without a hitch and  
>> generates the expected 'window.dmx'  file.
>>
>> However, when I run dctimestep using the above 'window.dmx file, a  
>> venetian_blind.xml file from Optics, and sky patch coefficient  
>> images generated with  vwrays and rtcontrib as follows:
>> $ gensky 9 21 12:00 -a 37.71 -o 122.21 -m 120 | genskyvec |  
>> dctimestep image/glass_d_c4%03d.hdr venetian_blind.xml window.dmx  
>> >  test_9-21_1200.hdr
>> I get the following error:
>> fatal - unexpected EOF reading Window.dmx
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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