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I get the same daylight factors with different windows??

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:24 pm
by Mette
Hello.

I am investigating the daylight through different windows in Radiance. When I change the visible light normal transmittance nothing changes in the daylight distribution in the room. I also tried changing the transmittance and inside/outside reflectance: Nothing happened there either.
Is this an error in the program or did I do something wrong?

Regards, Mette

Re: I get the same daylight factors with different windows??

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:32 pm
by KasperS
The daylight factor is just typed in. If you are using Radiance, this value isnt used, because you have to type it in into radiance.

Also if you use Radiance, (from my experience) ALWAYS run the maximum quality, the rest is just not good enough, and you can only use the colors already premade by IESVE, the color pallet doesnt work.

Re: I get the same daylight factors with different windows??

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:02 pm
by PCully
Kasper is right, in RadianceIES have a look at the Surface Properties tab to see where to do this.

Constructions Database is being updated this year so hopefully we'll see all this information integrated at some point.

Phil

Re: I get the same daylight factors with different windows??

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:55 pm
by ZapBran
Why do I believe "some point" more than "this year"?

Cynical Level 6 achieved!

Re: I get the same daylight factors with different windows??

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:04 pm
by PCully
I'm not commenting until this is in the software 8-)