[Radiance-general] rookie question: how to do in the command window of Windows system what "echo" does in Unix shell?

[Ji Zhang 张冀]

Dear Thomas,

Thank you very much for your kind help!

Ji


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Thomas Bleicher
<tbleicher at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ji Zhang Õż½ <hope.zh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Radiance experts,
> >
> > I'm new to Radiance and appreciate if you can help me on this simple
> > question:
>
> Welcome and I guess we can.
>
> > The following commend in the Shell of Unix will get the horizontal
> > irradiance value due to the uniform sky as defined in the sky_uni.oct
> file:
>
> First of all: In your command below you need to substitute the "-r+"
> with a "-I+" (upper case i). If you copied this command correctly from
> your source then you need a better source of information.
>
> > % echo "0 0 0 0 0 1"  |  rtrace  -h  -r+  -w  -ab  1  sky_uni.oct
>
> > May I ask in order to do the same thing what DOS commands I should use do
> > the same thing in the command window of a Windows XP or Vista system when
> > I'm using the Desktop Radiance?
>
> You can create a file "points.txt" with "0 0 0 0 0 1" in it (ASCII
> text file, not a Word doc!). These are basically the coordinates of
> the point you want to test (0,0,0) and the direction in which you
> point your virtual sensor (0,0,1 = "up"). Now use this command on the
> DOS prompt:
>
> rtrace -w -h -ab 1 sky_uni.oct < points.txt
>
> Later on you will want to test more than just one point. Then you can
> just add a new line for each point to the file and you will get one
> line of output (r,g and b value) for each line/point.
>
> PS: If you can install applications on your system then you should
> replace the Radiance installation from Desktop Radiance with a more
> recent version. You can download a Windows installer for the 3.9
> version here:
>
>
> http://www.bozzograo.net/radiance/index.php?module=Downloads&func=prep_hand_out&lid=23
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
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