misterious error

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and the
light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5
-dr 1 -ss 1 -st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up oconv.

-Greg

···

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and the
light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5
-dr 1 -ss 1 -st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as the
script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of the
batch file.

What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to figure
out what's wrong with mine...

Still open to suggestions though! :wink:

Thanks

Giovanni

···

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
oconv.

-Greg

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
the light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5

-dr 1 -ss 1

-st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

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end lines in the rif file?
like DOS / UNIX?
G

···

On 23 Jan 2013, at 18:03, Giovanni Betti <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as the
script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of the
batch file.

What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to figure
out what's wrong with mine...

Still open to suggestions though! :wink:

Thanks

Giovanni

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
oconv.

-Greg

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
the light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5

-dr 1 -ss 1

-st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

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Not sure that there is anything abnormal, I'm pasting here below my rif
file if that can give any insights,
I believe some settings in my machine have gone wrong... maybe \I just
need to reinstall radiance...

#start of rif file

···

##
scene= materials.rad test.rad

AMBFILE= test.amb
OCTREE= test.oct

RESOLUTION= 2382 1498
DETAIL= MEDIUM
VARIABILITY = MEDIUM
QUALITY= MEDIUM

INDIRECT= 5
REPORT= 2

render= -i -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0 -u+

view= v1 -vtv -vp 3.435037 -3.704111 -1.484534 -vd -0.081143 3.522492
1.481099 -vu 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 -vh 39 -vv 26 -vs 0 -vl 0 -vo
52.0 -va 0.0

##
# end of rif file

////////////////////////////////////////////////
Giovanni Betti

-----Original Message-----
From: giulio antonutto [mailto:antonutto@yahoo.it]
Sent: 23 January 2013 18:20
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

end lines in the rif file?
like DOS / UNIX?
G

On 23 Jan 2013, at 18:03, Giovanni Betti <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as
the script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of
the batch file.

What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to
figure out what's wrong with mine...

Still open to suggestions though! :wink:

Thanks

Giovanni

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
oconv.

-Greg

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
the light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5

-dr 1 -ss 1

-st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

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Hi Giovanni,

Not sure on this, as I do not remember if there are issues with spaces around the "=" sign. Your rif file has

    VARIABILITY = MEDIUM

all the other parameter names have the = sign right after the name, so what about

    VARIABILITY= MEDIUM

-Jack

···

--
Jack de Valpine
President

Visarc Incorporated
www.visarc.com

channeling technology for superior design and construction

On 1/23/2013 2:49 PM, Giovanni Betti wrote:

Not sure that there is anything abnormal, I'm pasting here below my rif
file if that can give any insights,
I believe some settings in my machine have gone wrong... maybe \I just
need to reinstall radiance...

#start of rif file
##
scene= materials.rad test.rad

AMBFILE= test.amb
OCTREE= test.oct

RESOLUTION= 2382 1498
DETAIL= MEDIUM
VARIABILITY = MEDIUM
QUALITY= MEDIUM

INDIRECT= 5
REPORT= 2

render= -i -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0 -u+

view= v1 -vtv -vp 3.435037 -3.704111 -1.484534 -vd -0.081143 3.522492
1.481099 -vu 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 -vh 39 -vv 26 -vs 0 -vl 0 -vo
52.0 -va 0.0

##
# end of rif file

////////////////////////////////////////////////
Giovanni Betti

-----Original Message-----
From: giulio antonutto [mailto:antonutto@yahoo.it]
Sent: 23 January 2013 18:20
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

end lines in the rif file?
like DOS / UNIX?
G

On 23 Jan 2013, at 18:03, Giovanni Betti <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> > wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as
the script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of
the batch file.

What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to
figure out what's wrong with mine...

Still open to suggestions though! :wink:

Thanks

Giovanni

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
oconv.

-Greg

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
the light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5

-dr 1 -ss 1

-st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

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In my own defense, rad should be robust to different line endings and spaces around variables, etc. I still think the problem is in the scene or material files. What happens when you run oconv on the command line, as opposed to doing it through rad? If it hangs, try redirecting input from an empty file just to be sure it isn't a stdin hang.

-Greg

···

From: Jack de Valpine <jedev@visarc.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 11:58:14 AM PST

Hi Giovanni,

Not sure on this, as I do not remember if there are issues with spaces around the "=" sign. Your rif file has
VARIABILITY = MEDIUM
all the other parameter names have the = sign right after the name, so what about
VARIABILITY= MEDIUM
-Jack
--
Jack de Valpine
President

Visarc Incorporated
www.visarc.com

channeling technology for superior design and construction
On 1/23/2013 2:49 PM, Giovanni Betti wrote:

Not sure that there is anything abnormal, I'm pasting here below my rif
file if that can give any insights,
I believe some settings in my machine have gone wrong... maybe \I just
need to reinstall radiance...

#start of rif file
##
scene= materials.rad test.rad

AMBFILE= test.amb
OCTREE= test.oct

RESOLUTION= 2382 1498
DETAIL= MEDIUM
VARIABILITY = MEDIUM
QUALITY= MEDIUM

INDIRECT= 5
REPORT= 2

render= -i -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0 -u+

view= v1 -vtv -vp 3.435037 -3.704111 -1.484534 -vd -0.081143 3.522492
1.481099 -vu 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 -vh 39 -vv 26 -vs 0 -vl 0 -vo
52.0 -va 0.0

##
# end of rif file

////////////////////////////////////////////////
Giovanni Betti

-----Original Message-----
From: giulio antonutto [mailto:antonutto@yahoo.it]
Sent: 23 January 2013 18:20
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

end lines in the rif file?
like DOS / UNIX?
G

On 23 Jan 2013, at 18:03, Giovanni Betti <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> >> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as
the script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of
the batch file.

What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to
figure out what's wrong with mine...

Still open to suggestions though! :wink:

Thanks

Giovanni

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

Hi Giovanni,

I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
form:

!some_script

that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
oconv.

-Greg

From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST

Dear List,

I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.

I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.

The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
the light sources are instead sent as polygons.

All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:

  rad test.rif

the output in the console is:

  oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
    set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5

-dr 1 -ss 1

-st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0

and then nothing...
no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
The computer does not even hang...

Can anybody offer an explanation?

Thanks a million in advance,

Giovanni

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As a test reduce INDIRECT to 1, QUALITY to LOW, and the RESOLUTION to 230 x
150. Perhaps you are just not patient enough.

Regards,
Thomas

···

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Giovanni Betti < gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> wrote:

Not sure that there is anything abnormal, I'm pasting here below my rif
file if that can give any insights,
I believe some settings in my machine have gone wrong... maybe \I just
need to reinstall radiance...

#start of rif file
##
scene= materials.rad test.rad

AMBFILE= test.amb
OCTREE= test.oct

RESOLUTION= 2382 1498
DETAIL= MEDIUM
VARIABILITY = MEDIUM
QUALITY= MEDIUM

INDIRECT= 5
REPORT= 2

render= -i -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0 -u+

view= v1 -vtv -vp 3.435037 -3.704111 -1.484534 -vd -0.081143 3.522492
1.481099 -vu 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 -vh 39 -vv 26 -vs 0 -vl 0 -vo
52.0 -va 0.0

##
# end of rif file

////////////////////////////////////////////////
Giovanni Betti

-----Original Message-----
From: giulio antonutto [mailto:antonutto@yahoo.it]
Sent: 23 January 2013 18:20
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error

end lines in the rif file?
like DOS / UNIX?
G

On 23 Jan 2013, at 18:03, Giovanni Betti <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com> > wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion Greg; unfortunately that's not the case as
> the script does not hang there and the just goes to the next line of
> the batch file.
>
> What's even funnier is that the same files run from another machine...
> ...which is what will happen for tonight and tomorrow I'll try to
> figure out what's wrong with mine...
>
> Still open to suggestions though! :wink:
>
> Thanks
>
> Giovanni
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward@gmail.com]
> Sent: 23 January 2013 17:14
> To: Radiance general discussion
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] misterious error
>
> Hi Giovanni,
>
> I suspect that your test.rad (or materials.rad) file has a line of the
> form:
>
> !some_script
>
> that is hanging because it is attempting to read from the standard
> input. Whatever script produced the ROPT= line is the one hanging up
> oconv.
>
> -Greg
>
>> From: "Giovanni Betti" <gbetti@fosterandpartners.com>
>> Date: January 23, 2013 8:23:36 AM PST
>>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I'm hoping for some help as I'ma bit lost here.
>>
>> I have a simple test scene with some light sources in it.
>>
>> The scene is entirely described using radiance meshes (obj2mesh) and
>> the light sources are instead sent as polygons.
>>
>> All the files are called In the *.rif file and then I simply run:
>>
>> rad test.rif
>>
>> the output in the console is:
>>
>> oconv materials.rad test.rad > test.oct
>> set ROPT=-dp 512 -ar 31 -ms 0.49 -ds .3 -dt .1 -dc .5
> -dr 1 -ss 1
>> -st .1 -ab 2 - af test.amb -aa .15 -ad 800 -as 128 -av 10 10
>> 10 -lr 8 -lw 1e-4 -ad 2048 -as 1024 -dr 100 -lr 48 -av 0 0 0
>>
>>
>> and then nothing...
>> no errors, no warnings and (most importantly!) no image!
>> The computer does not even hang...
>>
>> Can anybody offer an explanation?
>>
>> Thanks a million in advance,
>>
>> Giovanni
>
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