About Desktop Radiance

radiance-general
1

Hi,

I want to use Radiance on a WindowsXP system. I know that the Desktop Radiance has some problems, but the scene I want to render is quit simple, so I think I can handle the text-based input files, without the AutoCAD GUI.

I found that in the "Desktop Radiance Overview", it is said:

"For individuals who are familiar with the standard Radiance program, the advanced features that are not currently part of the Desktop Radiance system can be accessed through the MS-DOS batch files by modifying the original text-based input."

So my question is can all Radiance features be accessed in this way? Is it stable and reliable?

Thanks.

Yours,

Huang Weixin

2

Hello,
In my experience, Desktop Radiance is quite stable if you don`t use the CAD
interface. But it doesn`t include the last release, and not all programs are
ported. Depending on what you plan to do, this could be a problem, but for
simple renderings, it should work. (the Radiance tutorial, for example,
works fine like in the manual)
You could also install the last release on Cygwin using Francesco Anselmo`s
binaries. You can find the information in the downloads page of
radiance-online.org.
Finally, the option of compiling Radiance on windows using the Borland
compiler was mentioned earlier in the list, but I don`t know how that works,
you can check in the list`s archives (also in radiance-online).
Hope this helps.
Regards,

Santiago

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  Subject: [Radiance-general] About Desktop Radiance

  Hi,

  I want to use Radiance on a WindowsXP system. I know that the Desktop
Radiance has some problems, but the scene I want to render is quit simple,
so I think I can handle the text-based input files, without the AutoCAD GUI.

  I found that in the "Desktop Radiance Overview", it is said:

  "For individuals who are familiar with the standard Radiance program, the
advanced features that are not currently part of the Desktop Radiance system
can be accessed through the MS-DOS batch files by modifying the original
text-based input."

  So my question is can all Radiance features be accessed in this way? Is it
stable and reliable?

  Thanks.

  Yours,

  Huang Weixin