Hi Germán, Unless you really like making work for yourself, I wouldn't recommend eliminating oconv by building everything in memory. You wouldn't save yourself much time (if any) in the end, and you would end up using a lot more memory that way, as the process of writing out and reloading the octree cleans up the set lists and other structures.
You can still run oconv from your program, and even pass it scene data via a pipe using popen() or similar. I would then avail myself of the routines in src/rt/raycalls.c which are designed for your kind of code. You can call the "ray_init(char*)" function, passing it the name of your octree file, and it takes care of all the set-up details for you. The call "ray_trace(RAY*)" performs ray evaluation, and all the various command-line settings are available as global variables for your amusement. Cheers, -Greg > From: Germán Molina Larrain <[email protected]> > Date: September 13, 2017 2:57:17 PM PDT > > Hello all, > > I am experimenting with Radiance code, with the purpose of creating a > calculation engine for Groundhog. > > In the process, I have managed to write a C++ program (early tests have > passed, so far) that can read SketchUp model and export it in Radiance > format. However, my intention is to allow it to calculate things, thus > avoiding the need of exporting and handling thousands of files and scripting. > > My idea is to generate a program that basically receives a SketchUp model and > perform several calculations... a very simple call > > gh_calc_engine Model.skp > results.txt > > The program will need, of course, to create the octree (not from a text file, > but from the internal data structure) and run rtrace or something like that. > I am checking how to do it and haven't gotten very far... could you guys help > me? > > For what I understand, a program would need some sort of structure as shown > below my signature, but I am unsure. I am far from compiling.... for now, I > am trying to understand how Radiance works underneath. > > Your help/hints and other things will be very appreciated > > Kind regards, > > Germán >
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