rvu aim question

[Christopher Jones]

I am using Interactive View and trying to adjust the view point and rotation so I am looking towards the wall with the windows. The space is a rectangle with two windows on the west wall, no windows on the other walls. The default view displayed is looking away from the west wall into the space. Hopefully someone can assist with the correct rvu command to change the view point and rotate the viewing angle.

Thanks!

[Zack Rogers]

Hi Chris, a couple commands to know about to help navigate in the Radiance interactive rvu program.  Also, know that the full Radiance rvu manual is documented here: http://www.manula.com/manuals/zrogers/spot-pro-v-5/1/en/topic/rvu-operation

- you can change the direction you are looking by typing "aim" in the command bar (below the image) and then picking the view center with the mouse on the screen.

- you can also change the direction and location of your view (and all other parameters), by click the "View" menu button.  In the window that pops up, you can specify the exact view position, direction, size, clipping planes, and different view types.

- you can use the xyz +/- buttons to incrementally move the view location.  You can define these big and small increments by selecting Set --> GUI Increments.

- you can hit the "Load View" button and select one of the other defaults views.  Select the "views" subdirectory in your SPOT project directory and there will be 8 pre-defined views: sw, se, ne, nw (which are perspective views from the respective corners: sw for south-west corner which is the default)  Wsect, Ssect, Esect, and Nsect are cross sectional views from the specified direction.  Select the view and it should regenerate the image.  There is one bug in this windows Radiance program (out of my control) where it won't load the view if the directory has a space in it.  In this case you just have to put quotes around the command.  For example, if there is a space in the name you might see this command in the simulation window:  last C:/SPOT/Projects/Project name with space/views/se.vf .  Just copy and paste this variation with quotes around the file location into the command window.  last "C:/SPOT/Projects/Project name with space/views/se.vf" and it will load.

I hope this helps.  The rvu program that SPOT uses is part of the main Radiance distribution and is a little buggy and not extremely user friendly.  It is on the SPOT development list to update rvu with a more user friendly interactive Radiance viewer.  More built-in view and rendering features are upcoming as well that will make the generation of renderings much more user friendly.

Regards,

Zack

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Christopher Jones <c...@enersave.ca> wrote:

I am using Interactive View and trying to adjust the view point and rotation so I am looking towards the wall with the windows. The space is a rectangle with two windows on the west wall, no windows on the other walls. The default view displayed is looking away from the west wall into the space. Hopefully someone can assist with the correct rvu command to change the view point and rotate the viewing angle.

Thanks!

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[Christopher Jones]

Thanks very much Zack. I will try the Load View option.