[Radiance-general]Genklemsamp

[Andy McNeil]

Hi Chris,
hmm...   can you check venetian_blind.xml to make sure that it is a full klems basis (not half or quarter). you should see something that looks like this:
<AngleBasisName>LBNL/Klems Full</AngleBasisName>
Andy

On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Chris Humann wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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