[Radiance-general] genBSDF: Errors encountered

[Alireza Hashemloo]

Hi Greg,

Thank you for your response. I would appreciate if you could send me the
updated genBSDF script. I think I can just replace the existing version
with the updated script for windows in my Radiance/bin directory.

Best,
Alireza

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alireza,
>
> This is an error we hadn't noticed in the genBSDF script that shows up on
> Windows because it doesn't use single-quoted strings.  I have just checked
> in a fix, which I can send you separately if you don't want to wait for the
> installer to be updated.
>
> Thanks for informing us!
>
> Best,
> -Greg
>
> *From: *Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu>
>
> *Subject: *[Radiance-general] genBSDF: Errors encountered
>
> *Date: *February 7, 2016 3:45:18 PM PST
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have two questions about two errors I have encountered using genBSDF on
> Windows:
>
> Following the Example-1 in the genBSDF Tutorial (
> http://www.radiance-online.org/learning/tutorials/Tutorial-genBSDF_v1.0.1.pdf),
> I have encountered the following error messages:
>
> Windows 7 (64-bit)
> Radiance 5
>
> Command: "genBSDF +f +b -c 500 -geom inch -dim 199 201 1.5 2.5 -0.939693 0
> D:/tutorialBSDF/blinds.rad > D:/tutorialBSDF/blinds.xml"
>
> Error: "wrapBSDF: only one XML input allowed
>           Usage: wrapBSDF [-W][-c][-a {kf|kh|kq|t3|t4}][-u unit][-g
> geom][-f 'x=string;y=string'] [-s spectr][-tb inp][-tf inp][-rb inp][-rf
> inp][-C comm] [input.xml]
>           Could not wrap BSDF data"
>
>
> Content of the blinds.rad file passed to genBSDF:
>
> ### blinds.rad
> void plastic white
> 0
> 0
> 5 0.7 0.7 0.7 0 0
> !genblinds white blinds 1 400 4 4 20 | xform -rz -90 -rx -90 -t 0 0
> -0.939693
>
>
> 2- as shown in the command  in questions 1, I have to provide the absolute
> path of the .rad file that is passed to genBSDF as well as the absolute
> path of the .xml file where the consequent BSDF data should be saved as.
> Otherwise, if I provide the relative path based on my current working
> directory (passing the relative path as "blinds.rad" and "blinds.xml"), I
> encounter a  "Segmentation fault". This is despite the fact that my working
> directory is already set to the directory where the blinds.rad file is
> saved in and the blinds.xml file should be saved to.
>
> Command: "genBSDF +f +b -c 500 -geom inch -dim 199 201 1.5 2.5 -0.939693 0
> blinds.rad > blinds.xml"
>
> Error: "Segmentation fault"
>
>
> In addition, I was wondering if there are any solutions to visualize a
> Tensor-tree BSDF data file produced by genBSDF on Windows?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> Regards,
>
> Alireza
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