[Radiance-general] illum examples

[Jia Hu]

Thank you, master Greg!!

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever the glow distance is set to, no shadow testing will happen to
> materials through an intervening illum.  This is what it says in the
> reference manual I quoted to you.
>
> -Greg
>
> From: Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com>
>> Date: July 20, 2010 4:28:27 PM PDT
>>
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> If I set maxrad in the "glow" type of luminaires to a positive value, say,
>> the diagonal of the luminaire dimension. The shadow testing will happen if
>> the distance between the luminaire and the point is less than maxrad, right?
>> If the illum rectangles encloses the luminaire, is  there shadow testing if
>>  the distance of the point from luminaire is still less than maxrad (and the
>> point is outside of the illum rectangle) ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jia
>>
>>
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