[Radiance-general] Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos

[Greg Ward]

Hi Aitor,

There probably should be a special message when the input doesn't match what's expected in rtrace.  No one has really complained about it before, though I'm sure it's not the first time it has come up.

-Greg

> From: leceta <aitorleceta at gmail.com>
> Date: February 27, 2013 9:56:35 AM PST
> 
> I wonder why rtrace´s stderr was not giving me any information.
> 
> is this normal?
> 
> 
> 2013/2/27 leceta <aitorleceta at gmail.com>
> solved, 
> 
> was my bad, pts file was incorrect (comma separated values)  : S
> 
> it takes me 4 days to catch this silly problem! 
> 
> cheers
> aitor leceta
> 
> 
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> From: leceta <aitorleceta at gmail.com>
> Date: 2013/2/27
> Subject: Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos
> To: radiance-general at radiance-online.org
> 
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> i´am using radiance package installed via Diva for rhino 1.9 (i guess) in windows7 64 professional
> 
> I want to make some simple calculations like those i´ll describe via Dos command line
> 
> 1- set the working directory where all my files are (obj, rad, oct, ies, dat, pts)
> 2- obj2rad works fine
> 3- ies2rad also fine
> 4- oconv also
> 
> but a simplified rtrace calculation like this
> 
> 5- rtrace filename.oct<filename.pts>filename.dat
> 
> gives me as result a file with just the header but no irradiance values for the points in filename.pts
> 
> anyone knows what i´m doing wrong.
> 
> It´s because i´m not using cygwin, i mean, is the problem with my radiance for window distribution? it woldn´t be the case as long as Diva is using rtrace for its calculations without problems. At least it use to...
> 
> any hint or advice would be much apreciated
> 
> thanks
> aitor
> 
> 
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