problem with options of 'rview'

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I’m affraid my first attemp to post this message hasn’t been successfull, so I try it once more. Please don’t take this mail into account, it the first one is alredy posted:

After downloading the dynamic binaries for Linux and installing the radiance’

library I’ve tried to execute the rad-command from the tuturial (rad -o x11

daf.rif) as well as just the rview-command with other oct-files, but

unfortunately the -vp option could not be executed and I got the following

error:

rview -vu 0 1 0 -vp 50 60 40 -vd 0 -1 -1 -vh 20 -vv 20 -ps 8 -pt .16 -dp 128 -ar

9 -ds 0 -dt .2 -dc .25 -dr 0 -sj 0 -st .5 -aa .4 -ad 64 -as 0 -av 0.5 0.5 0.5

-lr 3 -lw .02 -R daf.rif -o x11 -pe 1 daf.oct

VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 26 2003 16:12:37)

Unknown option: “-vp”

rad: error running rview

Now I’m wondering, whether the problem arises, because I am using the dynamic

binaries instead of static, or is it something else?

Thanks,

Olga Graf

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VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 26 2003 16:12:37)
Unknown option: "-vp"

Hi,

there was a discussion some time ago about the problem that the filename "rview" is used by vi (a text editor) as well as radiance. AFAIK in newer releases of radiance, rview was renamed. The rview that reported the unknown option to you is from vi(m), not from radiance. You could take a look at what the vi-rview is, maybe you don't need it and can rename it into rview.vi. "which rview" should point you to the file that was executed when you wanted to start rview, it might be /usr/bin/rview. You can also get a cvs-snapshot of the current radiance-development-tree from www.radiance-online.org, if you want to compile it on your own (or maybe someone offers binaries of the cvs-radiance?).

Good luck, CU Lars.

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--
Lars O. Grobe
[email protected]

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"quicker than the eye could flick..." ;-))
cheers,
giulio

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lars O. Grobe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 19 May 2004 13:02
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] problem with options of 'rview'

VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 26 2003 16:12:37)
Unknown option: "-vp"

Hi,

there was a discussion some time ago about the problem that the
filename "rview" is used by vi (a text editor) as well as radiance.
AFAIK in newer releases of radiance, rview was renamed. The rview that
reported the unknown option to you is from vi(m), not from radiance.
You could take a look at what the vi-rview is, maybe you don't need it
and can rename it into rview.vi. "which rview" should point you to the
file that was executed when you wanted to start rview, it might be
/usr/bin/rview. You can also get a cvs-snapshot of the current
radiance-development-tree from www.radiance-online.org, if you want to
compile it on your own (or maybe someone offers binaries of the
cvs-radiance?).

Good luck, CU Lars.
--
Lars O. Grobe
[email protected]

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Hi Olga,

No one mentioned the simplest solution, which I suppose is obvious, of changing your PATH environment variable in your shell so that the Radiance bin directory (/usr/local/bin by default) preceeds the directory containing vim (/usr/bin usually). This will fix the problem without having to rename or reinstall anything. Renaming Radiance's "rview" to "rvu" will break the concurrent release of "rad," which still calls "rview" to start an interactive rendering.

-Greg

From: [email protected]
Date: May 19, 2004 4:43:30 AM PDT

I'm affraid my first attemp to post this message hasn't been successfull, so I try it once more. Please don't take this mail into account, it the first one is alredy posted:

  After downloading the dynamic binaries for Linux and installing the radiance'
  library I've tried to execute the rad-command from the tuturial (rad -o x11
  daf.rif) as well as just the rview-command with other oct-files, but
  unfortunately the -vp option could not be executed and I got the following
  error:

  rview -vu 0 1 0 -vp 50 60 40 -vd 0 -1 -1 -vh 20 -vv 20 -ps 8 -pt .16 -dp 128 -ar
  9 -ds 0 -dt .2 -dc .25 -dr 0 -sj 0 -st .5 -aa .4 -ad 64 -as 0 -av 0.5 0.5 0.5
  -lr 3 -lw .02 -R daf.rif -o x11 -pe 1 daf.oct
  VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 26 2003 16:12:37)
  Unknown option: "-vp"
  rad: error running rview

  Now I'm wondering, whether the problem arises, because I am using the dynamic
  binaries instead of static, or is it something else?

  Thanks,

  Olga Graf

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For new people finding the issue, it’s also been resolved here: