[Radiance-general] Re: Rtcontrib inside of script

[Randolph M. Fritz]

It's probably a quoting problem. Does Ruby perhaps process "%03d" 
itself? You may need to quote the '%'.

Randolph

On 2010-08-18 14:45:39 -0700, Guglielmetti, Robert said:

> Greetings from inside the octree.
> 
> I'm trying to make a script that will as one of its steps call rtcontrib and
> compute a set of daylight coefficient images, based on Axel Jacobs'
> tutorial.
> 
>> From a BASH prompt, if I set up some view options (in $vw) and render
> options (in a file called rtc.opt), the following command...
> 
> vwrays -ff $vw | rtcontrib @rtc.opt -fo -ffc $(vwrays -d $vw) -f
> tregenza.cal -b tbin -o images/patches/treg%03d.hdr -m sky_glow model_dc.oct
> 
> ...works. I get treg[000-145].hdr in my images/patches directory. This is
> good.
> 
> But if I try to put the same construct into a Ruby script (note slightly
> different variable names), the following command...
> 
> vwrays -ff #{vw} | rtcontrib #{rtc} -n 15 -ffc $(vwrays -d #{vw}) -fo -f
> tregenza.cal -b tbin -o #{Dir.pwd}/output/dc/test/treg%03d.hdr -m sky_glow
> model_dc.oct"
> 
> ...does not work. Fail. Boo. What I end up with is just a single
> treg000.hdr. Any ideas why? I have a feeling the system doesn't like the
> vwrays call inside of the rtcontrib call. Anyone know how to pass this
> through from Ruby without a problem?


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Environmental Energy Technologies Division • Lawrence Berkeley Labs