[Radiance-general] 3ds Max -> sketchup -> su2rad ?

[Claus Brøndgaard Madsen]

Thanks a million. I'm off to bed now ... Will continue tomorrow after work. Too busy during daytime to work on this :-)

/Claus

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On 18/01/2011, at 00.17, "Thomas Bleicher" <tbleicher at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Claus.
> 
> I think I understand now what's going on
> 
> 2011/1/17 Claus Brøndgaard Madsen <cbm at create.aau.dk>:
>> I open Ruby console, set LOGLEVEL and ran export.
>> Here's the output (dunno if it matters but apparently there
>> is some complaint about a convert.exe not being found):
> 
> Not an issue here. "convert.exe" is used to convert textures
> to tiffs which can then be converted to *.hdr files for Radiance.
> If you don't have it you can't export textures, that's all.
> 
> Now on to the log:
> [...]
>> [I] OBJECTS:
>> [I] RadComponent: '' [def='skp2C40']
>> [V] ies data file 'C:/Users/cbm/AppData/Local/Temp/skp2C40.tmp' found
>> [V] replacement file 'C:/Users/cbm/AppData/Local/Temp/skp2C40.tmp' found
> 
> Ok. The only top level entity in your scene is the component "skp2c40".
> This component is created via export to a file "skp2C40.tmp" and then
> loaded into your current file. su2rad tries to find an *.ies file by
> substituting a ".ies" extension for a ".skp" extension. However, since
> the file doesn't end with ".skp" nothing is substituted and the path to
> "skp2C40.tmp" is returned as IES path. Therefore no geometry is created
> and the whole export is replaced with an ies2rad command.
> 
> Temporary fix for now: delete the file
> 'C:/Users/cbm/AppData/Local/Temp/skp2C40.tmp' and any other skp*.tmp
> files you might find there.
> 
> I can send you a file with a fix for su2rad later.
> 
>> [E] No such file or directory - C:/Users/cbm/Desktop/3dstoskpimport/radiance/objects
> 
> Here is the real problem of the export: Because there is no geometry
> there is also no "objects" directory. The script tries to list it's contents
> and crashes. Another thing I need to change.
> 
> If you can get rid of the wrong IES replacement above this should not
> be an issue any more.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
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