[Radiance-general] Three Phase Method Tutorial - Example 1

[Greg Ward]

Hi Alireza,

There have been a few changes to the programs since this tutorial was written.  It would help to know what system you are on (esp. if Windows) and the exact commands you used leading up to the error.

Cheers,
-Greg

> From: Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu>
> Subject: [Radiance-general] Three Phase Method Tutorial - Example 1
> Date: November 30, 2015 1:04:14 AM PST
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a couple of questions with regards to the three-phase method tutorials:
> 
> 1- Following the Example 1 in the tutorial document titled as "The Three-Phase Method for Simulating Complex Fenestration with Radiance" (available at http://www.radiance-online.org/learning/tutorials/Tutorial-ThreePhaseMethod.pdf) I have encountered the following error message using the dctimestep (page 21) to generate a rendering:
> 
> "fatal - unexpected EOF reading results/south.dmx"
> 
> I have checked the content of the south.dmx file generated in the previous steps and it appears that with the exception of the first 9 lines providing information such as the Format, Software, Capdate etc, the remaining of the lines contain NULL values. This is despite the fact that I have not received any error messages following the Example 1 through each step prior to this last step where the EOF error is raised.
> 
> 2- There is another document titled as "Radiance Three Phase Method Tutorial" (also by Andy McNeil) which I could not find on the Radiance website but it it published via GitBook at the following link:
> 
> https://www.gitbook.com/book/andymcneil/three-phase-method-tutorial/details
> 
> Following the Example 1 of this new tutorial document, the 'rcontib' call is replaced with 'rfluxmtx' to create the view matrix renderings. I have also attempted to pursue this example step by step, however, the call for the 'rfluxmtx' for generating view matrix renderings (page 21) raises the following error message:
> 
> "missing hemisphere sampling type"
> 
> I have checked the 'rfluxmtx' document describing the application of a "#@rfluxmtx variable=value" form to pass the sampling basis (eg. h=kf for full Klems sampling model). However, I could not find the correct syntax to add this variable to the rfluxmtx command call in the tutorial (page 21) in response to the "missing hemisphere sampling type" error.
> 
> 
> I would appreciate if you could help me with these two questions.
> 
> Thank you,
> Alireza 
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