[Radiance-general] Getting Started

[Thomas Bleicher]

Abdul

I am not familiar with the internals of the NREL installer. Perhaps it
already has done the job for you. Open a terminal and type

which rpict


If it comes back with a path like /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/radiance/bin
you are already set to use Radiance. The RAYPATH variable is not strictly
necessary but some scene setups expect it to be available.

A general discussion about setting environment variables in Mac OS (or the
previous versions) is here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603785/environment-variables-in-mac-os-x/4567308#4567308

It's a few years old by now but I think most of this still applies. If you
are new to the Unix shell environment you can use this introduction to
setting variables:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/28/set-enviornment-variables-mac-os-x/

Please note that you can damage your user profile with these changes, which
could make it impossible to the terminal to clean up the mess. If you are
new to this you should ask around if someone has experience with Mac OS or
Linux and ask them to assist you. You can set up a second user and try your
modifications in that profile first. If it get's damaged you can just
delete it. In any case, make a backup!

Regards,
Thomas


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:34 AM, A.M. Irsyadi <munirsyadi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed Radiance on OSX 10.11.6 using this:
> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/download/5.0/radiance-5.0.0-Darwin.dmg
>
> in a tutorial:
>
> "Next you need to add "/usr/local/radiance/bin” to your system path, and you need to create a new system variable called “RAYPATH” and set it to "/usr/local/radiance/lib”. You can/should also add "/usr/local/radiance/man” to your MANPATH system variable.”
>
> please give a step-by-step guide to add this system variable on mac.
>
> then, how to check whether properly installed or not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Abdul
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:22 PM, Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Also, good introductions to the bash and csh shells, as well as Unix
> itself, are probably in order. But this is a lot of study. Still, the
> following introduction, from NYU's high-performance computing center, might
> perhaps be useful:
>   Introduction to Unix/Linux - https://wikis.nyu.edu/pages/
> viewpage.action?pageId=53859101
>
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation
> +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Compagnon Raphaël <
> Raphael.Compagnon at hefr.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abdul
>>
>> You can also find an old (written 19 years ago...) Radiance tutorial from
>> me on: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/index.html#cat4
>> I can nevertheless ensure you that the basic radiance commands that are
>> presented in this tutorial are remaining exactly the same in today's
>> Radiance version. Since that time there are only a few commands that have
>> changed their names, namely:
>> rview became rvu
>> gcalc became icalc
>>
>> I also add the same remarks as Andy...
>>
>> Hope this will of help.
>>
>> Raphaël
>>
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