[Radiance-general] materials and texfunc

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Jia,

Lars beat me to it; rad is the tool to use, and it also can be redirected to
rvu  with the "-o x11" option. You can, of course also do what you proposed,
and create a batch file or shell script to manage all the steps. The nice
thing about rad is it intelligently manages your scene files and also makes
smart choices about rendering parameters depending on what you are trying to
do. It's definitely useful to see how the various options all work
together...

- Rob


On 7/8/10 1:28 AM, "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the typical way to automize the steps required to get an image from yor scene
> is to write a rif-file and let rad (look at the manpage of rad) determine what
> has to be done. It is a bit like using make. I would recommend not to copy one
> of the complete and complex rif-files coming with the examples, but to start
> with a minimal one.
> 
> This again is very nicely doable following Axel's tutorial!
> 
> Good luck, cheers, Lars.
> 
> --
> Dipl.-Ing. Architect Lars O. Grobe
> 
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:25, Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you very much. I am learning the tutorial of Axel Jacobs. It is very
>> good.
>>  
>> In Ubuntu, I built materials,  rad, sky.mat, sky.rad and .vf. files, when I
>> use oconv to compile them, I have to input the command into the terminal
>> window of Ubuntu to execute the command. Can I just run a script which
>> contains multiple commands such as oconv and rvu?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>>  
>> Jia