[Radiance-general] Errors with 'gendaymtx' and 'dctimestep'

[Andy McNeil]

Alireza,
The klems bsdf is the correct one to use.
you need to create the hourlypics directory:
mkdir hourlypics

Andy



On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu> wrote:

> Hi Greg and Andy,
>
> Thank you for your responses.
> I have excluded the '-n 8760' argument from the 'dctimestep' call and it
> does not raise the "improper length" error anymore. However, there is a
> couple of other errors raised:
>
>
> OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
> Radiance 5.0.8
> Command Line Environment: Terminal
>
>
> Command:
>
> $ dctimestep -if -o hourlypics/back_%04d.hdr viewpics/back_%03d.hdr \
> bsdf/fullwindow.xml matrices/daylightmatrix.dmx matrices/OakLand.smx
>
> Error#1
>
> fatal - cannot find BSDF file 'bsdf/fullwindow.xml'
>
> Description:
>
> In the five-phase method tutorial, there are two BSDF files generated in
> ".xml" format that are named as "fullwindow_klems.xml" and
> "fullwindow_t45.xml". There are no BSDF files named "fullwindow.xml". So I
> was wondering which
> BSDF xml file is meant to be in the command?
>
> Error#2
>
> dctimestep: cannot open 'hourlypics/back_0001.hdr' for output.
>
> Description:
>
> I passed "fullwindow_klems.xml" instead of "fullwindow.xml" just to see if
> the command would run into any other errors and the given dctimestep error
> about the hourlypics/ directory is raised. I do not see any directory made
> in any previous steps of the tutorial that is named "houlrypics". So I do
> not understand what the given error is about.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Alireza
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alireza,
>>
>> Try your dctimestep command in Error#2 without the "-n 8760" option.  The
>> behavior was changed since the tutorial was written so this option is no
>> longer needed with recent releases of the software.  This has been
>> mentioned in earlier threads this month, so you might want to go back and
>> read through those:
>>
>>
>> http://radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-general/2016-March/thread.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu>
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Radiance-general] Errors with 'gendaymtx' and
>> 'dctimestep'
>>
>> *Date: *March 27, 2016 7:38:52 PM PDT
>>
>>
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> Thank your for your response.
>>
>> Error#1:
>>
>> I checked the link and added the 0.53 argument to the -5 option and it
>> appears to work as I did not received the same error message again.
>>
>> Error#2:
>>
>> The 'daylightmatrix.dmx' is generated by the following command using the
>> MF:1 option as shown in the section 6.5 of the tutorial:
>>
>> $ genklemsamp -c 1000 -vd 0 -1 0 objects/daymtxsurf.rad | \
>> rcontrib -c 1000 -ab 2 -ad 1024 -e MF:1 -f reinhart.cal -b rbin -bn
>> Nrbins \
>> -m sky_glow octs/model_3ph.oct > matrices/daylightmatrix.dmx
>>
>> Once I run the dctimestep as shown in section 7.6 of the tutorial for the
>> 'three-phase simulation part' of the five-phase process:
>>
>> $ dctimestep -n 8760 -if -o hourlypics/back_%04d.hdr
>> viewpics/back_%03d.hdr \
>> bsdf/fullwindow.xml matrices/daylightmatrix.dmx matrices/OakLand.smx
>>
>> I receive the error message:
>>
>> fatal - improper length for binary file 'matrices/Oakland_direct.smx'
>>
>>
>> The same error is raised when I call dctimestep for the 'direct sun
>> component of the three-phase part' as well as 'direct sun component using
>> the model with many suns' as shown in the section 7.6 of
>> the tutorial:
>>
>> $ dctimestep -n 8760 -if -o hourlypics_dir/back_%04d.hdr
>> viewpics_dir/back_%03d.hdr \
>> bsdf/fullwindow.xml matrices/daylightmatrix_direct.dmx
>> matrices/OakLand_direct.smx
>>
>> $ dctimestep -n 8760 -if -o hourlypics_ds/back_%04d.hdr
>> viewpics_ds/back_%04d.hdr \
>> matrices/OakLand_direct_m6.smx
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>> Alireza
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Andy McNeil <mcneil.andrew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alireza,
>>>
>>> Error #1:
>>> The problem and solution is explained here:
>>>
>>> https://unmethours.com/question/10921/how-do-i-use-the-5-option-of-gendaymtx/
>>>
>>> Error #2:
>>> Have you checked that your daylight matrix uses the same sky subdivision
>>> as the sky matrix? The default for gendaymtx is 145 sky divisions.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have encountered two errors with gendaymtx and dctimestep with the
>>>> five phase method tutorial that I would appreciate if you could help me
>>>> with:
>>>>
>>>> OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
>>>> Radiance 5.0.8
>>>> Command Line Environment: Terminal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Error #1
>>>>
>>>> Command:
>>>>
>>>> $ gendaymtx -5 -d -m 6 -of skies/OakLand.wea >
>>>> matrices/OakLand_direct_m6.smx
>>>>
>>>> Error Message:
>>>>
>>>> gendaymtx: missing solar disk size argument for '-5' option
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Error #2
>>>>
>>>> Command:
>>>>
>>>> $ dctimestep -n 8760 -if -o hourlypics/back_%04d.hdr
>>>> viewpics/back_%03d.hdr \
>>>> bsdf/fullwindow.xml matrices/daylightmatrix.dmx matrices/OakLand.smx
>>>>
>>>> Error Message:
>>>>
>>>> fatal - improper length for binary file 'matrices/Oakland_direct.smx'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> description: the 'Oakland_direct.smx' has been generated by the
>>>> following command:
>>>>
>>>> $ gendaymtx -of -d skies/OakLand.wea > matrices/OakLand_direct.smx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your help,
>>>> Alireza
>>>>
>>>
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