RENDER QUALITY I am stuggling to achieve smooth renderings of daylit scenes utilizing the special_illum material (mkillum). With a CIE clear sky, rendering a...
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Andrew.Bissell@...
Mar 5, 2001 6:42 pm
Chas I was looking at the post below regarding using alternative ies data and I was interested in the modelling of a new fitting in a small room for...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 6, 2001 12:51 am
Hi Bruce, Without seeing your images, I can only guess at what might be going on. But, from your description, the most likely cause is the interaction between...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 6, 2001 9:59 pm
Hi Andrew, For the purpose of validation, a matte black room would be more appropriate. The white walls was suggested for use in visually assessing the...
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njlander@...
Mar 7, 2001 4:29 am
The olden days of unix Radiance allowed interactivity in ximage. functions such as showing the lux level at a point (click, L) or the average luminance for a...
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njlander@...
Mar 7, 2001 4:40 am
If anyone knows the trick to installing Radiance under Redhat 6.2 so that compilation errors are avoided (and so bin files such as ximage compile and work),...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 7, 2001 5:10 am
Dear Nick Lander, The interactive functions of ximage would be very nice to have inside of winimage, but unfortunately, time and budget constraints limited the...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 7, 2001 5:26 am
Hello again, Nick, The trick to intall Radiance under RedHat 6.2 is to download the pre-compiled binaries for Linux, available at: ...
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Renato Arturo Lemus
renatolemus@...
Mar 9, 2001 4:45 am
Hi: I would like to know how can I change the settings (-vt, -vu, -aa, etc.)in order to achieve a good rendering quality. I have tried to change this by ...
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Judy Lai
jlai@...
Mar 13, 2001 2:32 am
hi Renato, My comments are inline. ... I don't know how comfortable you are with manually editing files. If you are very comfortable (or not afraid to try it...
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renatolemus@...
Mar 13, 2001 6:27 am
Thanx a lot : I was tryin' to edit the .opt file, and it returned the same results. Now, it worked great, editing the .rif file. About the size of the...
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Bruce Sounes
bruce@...
Mar 13, 2001 9:53 am
Hi Chas, Thanks for the response last Tuesday. It eventually occurred to me that the errors were due to my re-using an old ambient file - I was getting quite ...
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David Baldacchino
daveb@...
Mar 13, 2001 1:32 pm
Regarding your claim of getting images of "enlarged"; proportions, all you need to do is to change the image size in the interactive renderer, under "V" (set...
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Judy Lai
jlai@...
Mar 13, 2001 6:37 pm
hi Renalto, ... An .opt file is created with every simulation command. If you edit the .opt file and then start a simulation, the simulation overwrites your...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 13, 2001 9:23 pm
Hi Bruce, I'm glad to hear that you have been successful with higher quality renderings. The re-use of old, invalid ambient files is a caveat of Radiance. We ...
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David Baldacchino
daveb@...
Mar 13, 2001 9:33 pm
Chas, You just mentioned that the ambient file can be saved to save on rendering time when most things in the scenario remain constant. I will be rendering...
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renatolemus@...
Mar 13, 2001 9:48 pm
Hi: I've been succesfull rendering in DR with all your suggestions. Now, I would like to know, ,why there are a lot or radiance images showing bitmaps on...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 13, 2001 10:23 pm
David, You asked how to save ambient information between renderings... Start a camera simulation (or duplicate and existing one), then click the "advanced";...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 13, 2001 10:39 pm
Hello Renato, I can understand your frustration with seeing fancy material types in the Desktop Radiance materials library, but not being able to create them...
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Muhammad Fauzan
paus@...
Mar 15, 2001 12:51 am
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mekanoo@...
Mar 15, 2001 8:51 am
hi chas, maybe the last e-mail direct to you...the next is going via newsgroup.. just this : i luckily reached the state of performing with deskrad. it´s a...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 15, 2001 6:53 pm
Dear Tilmann, Thanks for your feedback regarding Winrview. We are aware that the program is a bit unstable and we are investigating possible solutions. It is...
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renatolemus@...
Mar 16, 2001 5:21 am
Hi. I've been having lots of fun playing with this great tool!! thanx I have a question: I've been modifying materials, testing different results with ...
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Santiago Molina
caronte01@...
Mar 17, 2001 1:36 am
Renato: Here´s an example, taken from artifice's material definitions for dw models going to radiance. # Pavers-Oct-Sm-Gray void colorpict...
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David Baldacchino
daveb@...
Mar 19, 2001 6:31 am
I am trying to render a file in batch mode. The model is quite large and has lots of windows and skylights. It has been rendering for the past 4+ days now and...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 19, 2001 7:11 pm
Hi David, Four days is a very long time to wait for a rendering, indeed. However, if your model is very, very complex (many light sources and/or many ...
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Charles Ehrlich
ckehrlich@...
Mar 19, 2001 7:19 pm
Hi Terrance, Thanks for your feedback. The "unidentified modifier "0 " error message is a symptom of a bug in Radiance for Windows code that does not properly...
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David Baldacchino
daveb@...
Mar 19, 2001 8:10 pm
Hi Chas, Thanks again. I am running Windows 98 but I can tell that calculations are still going by using the task monitor and the CPU usage is still at 100%....
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Georg Mischler
schorsch@...
Mar 19, 2001 8:45 pm
... Are you treating all those as light sources? The following images were prepared with Rayfront instead of DR, but the basic principles remain the same: ...
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David Baldacchino
daveb@...
Mar 19, 2001 9:00 pm
Thanks for your feedback George, All my glazings are treated as light sources since they are the main source of light. The footprint I am simulating consists...
