installation of Radiance in lenny

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Hello

I have recently installed the lenny package with radiance and
installed the 4 radiance packages through synaptic package manager.

I am not sure if any RAYPATH has to be set separately to run the
command "rad" or any command exclusively associated with radiance.

Now what's happening is when I try to execute the rad or ranimate or
ranimove executables from /usr/bin, nothing is happening. Even when I
run command "rad", it does not give any message that this commend not
found or something, simply nothing happens.

Further I tried to run the examples files .rad using rad program, it
did not run.

Can I expect some help?

Thank you
Regards
Chandrayee

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Now what's happening is when I try to execute the rad or ranimate or
ranimove executables from /usr/bin, nothing is happening.

What do you mean by "nothing"? Do you get an error saying the command
was not found? Else - if you start the command without input, nothing
can happen... So what is the complete command you typed and what is the
exact output you got? And did you see the tutorial (look at doc/pdf)?

Lars.

3

Hello

Well I am not getting any message at all...I just went to run command
and gave 'rad'. But once again I am telling that 'nothing' is
happening. Basically my problem is after installing it in lenny I am
not able to start the interface of radiance from anywhere. Moreover it
is not included in the applications under lenny.

Thanks

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Lars O. Grobe <[email protected]> wrote:

Now what's happening is when I try to execute the rad or ranimate or
ranimove executables from /usr/bin, nothing is happening.

What do you mean by "nothing"? Do you get an error saying the command
was not found? Else - if you start the command without input, nothing
can happen... So what is the complete command you typed and what is the
exact output you got? And did you see the tutorial (look at doc/pdf)?

Lars.

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Well I am not getting any message at all...I just went to run command
and gave 'rad'. But once again I am telling that 'nothing' is
happening. Basically my problem is after installing it in lenny I am
not able to start the interface of radiance from anywhere. Moreover it
is not included in the applications under lenny.

rad is a control program that renders views of a scene. You call it in
its most basic form

rad <rif-file>

It is nothing like a GUI or such. The only thing that ressembles a GUI
in radiance would be trad, and also that alone does not do much. There
are interfaces for blender and sketchup that allow you integration of
radiance into these tools, as well as the (commercial) rayfront from
www.schorsch.com, which is a more general GUI and Autocad integration
(free demo available).

Still, starting at the GUI is not reasonable, as 99% of the job in a
simulation is the model...

What are you planning to do with radiance?

And (again) did you look at the tutorial? It is a step by step introduction.

CU Lars.

5

Hello

I must study the system properly. I want to connect esp-r to radiance
make daylight simulation.

Thank you

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lars O. Grobe <[email protected]> wrote:

Well I am not getting any message at all...I just went to run command
and gave 'rad'. But once again I am telling that 'nothing' is
happening. Basically my problem is after installing it in lenny I am
not able to start the interface of radiance from anywhere. Moreover it
is not included in the applications under lenny.

rad is a control program that renders views of a scene. You call it in
its most basic form

rad <rif-file>

It is nothing like a GUI or such. The only thing that ressembles a GUI
in radiance would be trad, and also that alone does not do much. There
are interfaces for blender and sketchup that allow you integration of
radiance into these tools, as well as the (commercial) rayfront from
www.schorsch.com, which is a more general GUI and Autocad integration
(free demo available).

Still, starting at the GUI is not reasonable, as 99% of the job in a
simulation is the model...

What are you planning to do with radiance?

And (again) did you look at the tutorial? It is a step by step introduction.

CU Lars.

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I must study the system properly. I want to connect esp-r to radiance
make daylight simulation.

Thank you
  
ESP-R can call the Radiance tools without further intervention from your
side, if you do not want to manually tune it. So now that you have
installed Radiance, your GUI is ESP-r. I do not know if you must tell
ESP-r where to find the binaries, I guess if the PATH is set, everything
should be fine.

CU Lars.

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Hi!

Chandrayee Basu wrote:

I am not sure if any RAYPATH has to be set separately to run the
command "rad" or any command exclusively associated with radiance.

Although I think most questions were answered already - here's a hint about
RAYPATH: It is not in the environment by default, but by default the
directory, where the radiance materials are located, is used.
So running the examples works well without any changes.

Cheers,

Bernd

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