[Radiance-general] Preview error - unknown object type "ashik2"

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Interesting. Chris Rush gave a number of things to look at regarding the X11 issue; as for the "unknown object type" error, could you post a link to some of these scene files you're trying to look at, so I can try to replicate the problem? Also, what version of the NREL installer did you use?

On 4/21/16, 3:07 AM, "Paulína Šujanová" <paulina.sujanova at stuba.sk<mailto:paulina.sujanova at stuba.sk>> wrote:

Hello,

please I need help. Whenever I run objpict or objview or rvu, I get the same warning each and every time:
rpict (or rvu accordingly): warning - unknown object type "ashik2"
This error repeats no matter what I try to preview, a simple chair or a more complex model.
The preview than is/is not produced - I was not able to identify the trigger.

I am new to Radiance (and Linux). I got aware of this problem since I reinstalled Radiance from the NREL Radiance releases (I did this because I realised I was missing some files).

If I do understand it well, ashik2 should be an anisotropic BRDF model, describing the appearance of a material, and it is a calculation model - so "something built in".

Please, how do I fix the problem? Can please someone explain what went wrong?

I also get an X11 error.
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

This was already once discussed on the mailing list, but was not somehow resolved. I have tried to upgrade the graphic card driver, but with no impact. Please, did someone solve this?

Thanks,

Paulína