[Radiance-general] gendaymtx

[Galen Burrell]

Thanks Greg,

Indeed, my daylight coefficient file was missing the header (my rtcontrib line still had a '-h-' in it from the script I copied it from).

It runs smoothly (and quickly!) now.

Thanks,
Galen

> Hi Galen,
> 
> Thanks for trying this out.  I assume the '|' symbol in your e-mail is just a stray character, otherwise you would get an error trying to execute this.
> 
> I hadn't tested this mode before with a simple daylight coefficient matrix, but it seems to work OK.  Are you sure your "daylightcoeffs.dc" file has an appropriate header to it?  > The dctimestep command expects the file to start something like:
> 
> #?RADIANCE
> Test matrix
> FORMAT=ascii
> 
> 0.954473516	0.443845774	0.2058499
> 0.64873052	0.152509289	0.862083965
> ...
> 
> Binary files will have "FORMAT=float" or suchlike, instead.  On the other hand, the sky vector or matrix file is not expected to have a header.  A bit peculiar, I know, but this is how things worked out.  Your gendaymtx has the appropriate number of lines, 876*146 plus 146 blank lines separating each sky patch row.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Greg
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