[Radiance-general] x11meta issue

Sat Oct 3 17:25:00 PDT 2015

Thanks Greg,

That was the problem. Everything working as expected now and I can also see
the oblique view.

Thanks
Ruggiero

On 4 October 2015 at 08:06, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ruggiero,
>
> Do you have dot (".") in your RAYPATH?  If not, then xform won't look in
> your current directory(!) for named input files.  I would add "." to the
> beginning of RAYPATH if it isn't there already.
>
> I don't know why you wouldn't be getting an oblique view from objline.  It
> seems to generate all 4 views when I run it.
>
> -Greg
>
> *From: *Ruggiero Guida <ruggiero.guida at gmail.com>
>
> *Subject: *Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>
> *Date: *October 3, 2015 4:40:11 PM PDT
>
>
> Thanks Greg and Rob
>
> I added the "meta" folder from the source distribution in ray/lib/meta/
> and the problem with x11meta is gone and I can now see the output in X11.
> My original installation is still in /usr/local/radiance/.
>
> Still having one of the problems with xform though and not sure why
>
> I am working from the folder
>
> ~/dev/radiance
>
> I create the file things.rad in ~/dev/radiance/objects
>
> and then I use "objline ./objects/things.rad | x11meta"
>
> The use of "./" has solved the issue of objline not finding things.rad,
> but it still complains about the file things.orig. Do i need to create this
> file or it is just a warning?
>
> Thanks
> Ruggiero
>
>
>
>
> On 4 October 2015 at 02:05, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm....  Unlike other "essential" library files, the meta/ folder is
>> only distributed as part of the supplementary material in the "
>> rad5R0all.tar.gz
>> <http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/radiance-source-code/latest-release/rad5R0all.tar.gz>"
>> ball at:
>>
>>
>> http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/radiance-source-code/latest-release
>>
>> It lives in the ray/lib/meta/ subfolder of this distribution.  We could
>> think about creating a subdirectory in the ray/src/meta directory and
>> having it install from there if that makes more sense.  We should probably
>> take this offline, or move it to the "dev" list.
>>
>> @Ruggiero - try getting the above distribution and extracting the meta
>> directory onto your system, setting the MDIR environment variable
>> appropriately.  Hopefully, that will fix the issue for you.  We'll work on
>> this for the next package, I guess.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>>
>> *Date: *October 3, 2015 10:50:57 AM PDT
>>
>>
>> Thanks Greg,
>>
>> This vchars.mta file, is this a Radiance thing, or a system thing? The
>> only references I see to this filename in all the Radiance source are in
>> pexpand.c and expand.c:
>>
>> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=vchars.mta
>>
>> I do not see the file itself. I ASSumed this was because my installers
>> weren’t packaging it, but it doesn’t seem to be in the Radiance repo at
>> all, at least not in the mirror. On my entire storage device, I only see
>> this file in a couple of places, and they’re all locations where I had
>> really old archived installations of Radiance (built with your “makeall”
>> script). This makes me think this is a Radiance thing that somehow never
>> got included in the mirror...
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> From: Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> <gregoryjward at gmail.com>
>> Reply: Radiance general discussion
>> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
>> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>> Date: October 3, 2015 at 11:05:40 AM
>>
>> I don't know why xform is complaining, but the problem with x11meta *may*
>> be the MDIR environment variable, which should point to the appropriate
>> library directory on your system.  Mine is set to the location of:
>>
>> $MDIR=/usr/local/lib/ray/meta/
>> export MDIR
>>
>> Note the trailing '/' which is very important.  Generally speaking, this
>> directory sits in a "meta" subdirectory of the main Radiance library.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From:* Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>>
>> *Date:* October 3, 2015 8:47:45 AM PDT
>>
>>
>> Chris’ directory/path advice will fix errors one and three in your output
>> below, but error two is unfortunately a result of the NREL binary packages
>> not working correctly for x11meta. Sorry about that, I haven’t had a chance
>> to sort that one out yet. Used to be, no one ever used x11meta but it
>> appears lots of people are starting to pick up Axel’s tutorial which
>> includes the use of that tool, so I guess I’d better get this sorted!
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> From: Chris Kallie <kallie at umn.edu> <kallie at umn.edu>
>> Reply: Radiance general discussion
>> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
>> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>> Date: October 3, 2015 at 6:37:17 AM
>> To: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
>> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>> Subject:  Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>>
>> Make sure you are in the right directory, or pointing to the right
>> directory. -Chris
>>
>> On 10/3/15 4:40 AM, Ruggiero Guida wrote:
>>
>> Hi I am having issues with the x11meta command.
>> If I run
>>
>> objline objects/things.rad | x11meta (from Alex's tutorial),  I keep
>> receiving the error:
>>
>> xform: cannot find file "things.rad"
>> fatal - cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/meta/vchars.mta", mode "r"
>> xform: cannot find file "things.orig"
>>
>>
>> - I am on Mac OSX Yosemite.
>> - Last 5.0 binaries installed in default directory
>> - PATH, RAYPATH set correctly
>> - x11 installed from xQuarz.org
>>
>> I have checked other threads and it seems other people had the same
>> issue, but no solution was provided.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ruggiero
>>
>>
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