Re: [Brad] FW: Blender Radiance Interface II

[Francesco Anselmo]

Hi Thomas,

Sorry for the late reply, but I've taken a few days of holiday and
haven't touched the computer during the past 2 days :D

> I think you can't draw into the 3DView window. You'd have to create a
> mesh and set the material to "wireframe" or something. Or you could
> try to create a backdrop image for the "world" settings ("writing in
> the sky ...").

I meant to create a "wireframe" mesh, as you do with the lamp
photometry, and "opaque" meshes for the shadows, too ...

> This would create a lot of duplicates of identical objects. A folder
> for each animated object and exports with frame extension might be
> better to understand. Ranimate should be able to work with that
> as well as far as I have seen in the man page.

Ranimate is definitely the best solution ...

> > I've got separate scripts for time-of-the-day, shadows, sun-tracks
> > animations, it is very easy to integrate them as well ...
> 
> Perhaps we can create a "standard library" for Radiance evaluations
> that can be used by others as well (independend of Blender). I don't
> know if there's a point, though. They will have to interact with the
> modeler for the export and everything else may not be that spectacular
> (example to prove me wrong: sunpath :).

Yep, a library would be great. Sooner or later I will integrate 
everything within b/rad ...

> Any ideas _what_ to report or how reports should look like?

I would include some "metadata" like logo, project name, client, blah
blah blah, then the luminaire schedule (taking information from the
IES/Eulumdat files), the visualisation of lighting calculation on grids
(illuminance, daylight factor, sun hours, etc.), the pictures from
the selected view points. It will be necessary to add a
window/screen/widget to chose what to include in the report
(similar to dialux ...).
 
> > https://savannah.nongnu.org/account/register.php
> 
> I'll check it.

I've seen you've subscribed to savannah. If you
request for inclusion to the "Blended Radiance"
group, I will be able to approve your request ...

-- 
Francesco