[Radiance-general] Problems with RAD

[Rob Guglielmetti]

Thanks for the update, Alex, and glad you got it going. I'd be *really* interested in hearing what this registry value is all about, because the NREL installers do not touch the registry at all…

- Rob


On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Alex Krickx <akrickx at integralgroup.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Greg and Rob,
> 
> Turns out it was a Windows OS issue (surprise surprise). Just to share what I learned with the list - Windows can have certain permissions issues that prevent Radiance from running correctly. We also found a weird Registry value (yikes!) that was the main culprit.
> 
> Adding a "." to my path also may have solved my problem - in any case I'm keeping it in there for good measure. Now to do some scene rendering...
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex Krickx
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
> This doesn't really make sense, since rad calls system() with the same command line.  If you can cut and paste from the rad output to the command prompt and that works, then rad should work, also.  It works fine on my Unix system.  I'm stumped.
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> -Greg
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>> From: Alex Krickx <akrickx at integralgroup.com>
>> Date: October 18, 2012 9:49:04 AM PDT
>> 
>> Hi Rob,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response. The files are indeed in my current directory - I thought the path was ok because when I type in "oconv mod3.rad summer_sky.rad > summer.oct" without "./"s into the command editor I generate the octree correctly - am I mistaken? 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
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>> Alex Krickx, LEED AP 
>> Project Engineer
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