[Radiance-general] Variable height shading systems simulation

[Andy McNeil]

OOPS!  Omit the -c in the beginning of the first rmtxop commands! My bad.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Andy McNeil <mcneil.andrew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Humberto,
> There's an easier way to do this now. No need to use rlam anymore.
>
> First create your partial illuminance files:
> rmtxop -c upper.vmx window.xml upper.dmx sky.smx | rmtxop -c 47.4 119.9
> 11.6 > upper_illum.mtx
> rmtxop -c lower.vmx window.xml lower.dmx sky.smx | rmtxop -c 47.4 119.9
> 11.6 > lower_illum.mtx
>
> Then add them together:
> rmtxop upper_illum.mtx + lower_illum.mtx > total_illum.mtx
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Humberto Antunes <
> hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys
>>
>> I'm trying to do a all year simulation with a roller shade only covering
>> half my window.
>>
>> I've been trying to do it in an identical way as in Andy's example two of
>> the three fase method, i divided my window in two different polygons, one
>> for the shaded part and one for the unshaded part, created a view matrix
>> and daylight matrix for both parts of the window, and now i'm trying to use
>> the "rlam" command to put it all together in a single illuminance file. The
>> problem is the file that is coming out of "rlam" doesn't look good, it has
>> to much rows, and when i try to run "rmtxop" to convert RGB values to
>> illuminance values i get the fallowing error:
>>
>> rmtxop: operation failed on 'results/illuminance_RGB/closed_50.dat'
>>
>> Any hint on how to solve this, or a more efective way to do it?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Humberto A.
>>
>>
>>
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