Alex Bicalho - Autodesk wrote:
> There's Radiance for Windows and it runs without problems.
Yes and no. There's 'Desktop Radiance', it only works with AutoCAD 2000
or so, it's five versions out of date, and, well, was missing some stuff
anyways in the first place. And it's less stable in my experance. So
yes, there is Radiance for Windows, but no, it's not 'without problems'.
Unless you mean Rayfront or the 3D Studio plug-in, which yes, are
commercial versions of Radiance under Windows. I haven't used either of
these other than demo versions, so I really can't speak to their
capabilities.
I run Radiance under Cygwin so that I can use in on Windows (with the
latest version, with all the features). However, it doesn't run
full-speed under Cygwin, hence my running it as well under Linux and OS
X. It's pretty stable, other than an issue with very large models
causing problems with octree generation in my experance (which isn't an
issue when running under Linux/OS X). Well, that and there isn't any
easy way at all for me to get a Revit model into Radiance format, other
than to bring it into AutoCAD first and then re-export it as a 3DS or
try to use a very out of date lisp routine. Me and the other
three guys who use Revit and Radiance will rejoice when we can go
directly from Revit to Radiance 😉
Now, if all you're doing is basic lighting analysis, you could probably
get by with just Desktop Radiance. Maybe. Depends on what you're doing.
Then there's also the fact that there are several things I can do with
this setup that I can't do easy/for free under windows, like X11
forwarding over SSH so I can use Radiance from anywhere I like and such...
But it's all moot, since nobody uses Radiance much for rendering work
(the majority just use it for analysis). Just pointing out that things,
as always, are more complex when you look closely at them, and to say
that just because there are versions of something that can also run on
Windows it doesn't mean that it's really the best, or even sometimes a
workable, solution....
don't mean to be offensive, just informative.
Jeffrey