[Radiance-general] Getting Started

[Andy McNeil]

Hi Abdul,

Did you see the two tutorials on this page specifically for new Mac users?
Giulio and I prepared them 10 years ago when we were training alot of
people internally at Arup: http://radiance-online.org/learning/tutorials

I know they're dated and sparse, but they still have some useful things.

Since you're starting fresh, maybe you could keep a log of important things
you've learned and then later write them into a tutorial? No one is paid to
write tutorials for Radiance (okay, i was briefly paid for the genBSDF
tutorial but ended up spending more time than I was paid for), and the
community relies on each other to create tutorials. New user tutorials are
particularly difficult to write when you have 15 years under your belt
because you can't remember what you didn't know. Maybe you could turn your
struggle into gold for a new user?

Best,
Andy









On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:07 AM, A.M. Irsyadi <munirsyadi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you so much Greg, I am following the tutorials. I hope I can follow
> it.
>
> Regards
> On Mar 22, 2016 08:14, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abdul,
>>
>> Google suggests this page for getting started:
>>
>> http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/introduction-to-the-mac-os-x-command-line
>>
>> You can also read all about the default shell (Bash) here:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
>>
>> Assuming you've installed Radiance correctly, you should be able to
>> access the commands you'll need, which are organized and described here:
>>
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/whatis_comp.html
>>
>> For creating Radiance scene descriptions, the Radiance reference manual
>> is essential reading:
>>
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/ray.html
>>
>> Finally, the Chapter 1 tutorial from "Rendering with Radiance" is still a
>> reasonable place to start once you get everything working.  The chapter
>> also includes a nice introduction to the software, which is embarrassingly
>> current for having been written in 1998:
>>
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/book/ch1/ch1.pdf
>>
>> As a short-cut, the tutorial files are also available from:
>>
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/book/ch1/scene0.tar.Z
>>
>> Best of luck!
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *"A.M. Irsyadi" <munirsyadi at gmail.com>
>>
>> *Subject: *[Radiance-general] Getting Started
>>
>> *Date: *March 21, 2016 3:42:43 AM PDT
>>
>>
>> Dear expert,
>> I want to learn Radiance from the very basics. I have no experience using
>> command prompt in OSX or Linux. I am using Mac OSX El capitan, I already
>> installed Radiance on my Macbook. I have no idea how to start. I try to
>> follow the tutorial provided, but I dont know how to start.
>> Can someone pointing me the "very" basics step tuturial how to start
>> using radiance until the very simple simulation.
>> Thank you so much for your help
>> Regards,
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Abdul Munir
>> munirsyadi at unsyiah.ac.id
>> munirsyadi at gmail.com
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
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