Saving Views in rvu and saving hdr images

[StainesThomas]

Hi, so when viewing my array with the rvu command, When I have found a view that I like,I have tried saving the view to a file/ save the image as a .hdr, however when I try to do this the box in the rvu viewer says it has completed, however no files are saving to my folders, was wondering if there was any way to get around this

[shirubana]

One easy way is to save them with "File > Append view > and select the side.vp

and then render it into HDR one of this options bifacial_radiance options in analysis object

2. Alternatively you can use the following command in the rvu viewer

view side.vf

and then on the cmd line use

rpict -x 4800 -y 4800 -i -aa 0 -ar 170 -ab 4 -ad 250 -as 230 -ps 2 -dj 0.7 -pj 1 -vf render.vf 1axis_07_01_08.oct > render.hdr

Also, you might want to check the process outlined here to go further https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance/issues/179

[StainesThomas]

Thank you for that @shirubana hopefully will be able to do what is shown in #179, unfortunately at this point both using the file>append view and the view vside.vf command for some reason wont let me save the view to a new file or overwrite an existing file, hopefully I might be able to manually wrote the .vf file and then use it with the method shown in #179

[shirubana]

Any success?

[StainesThomas]

Unfortunately not so far, however hasn't been too big of a deal as I found can write your own view files to be used in the false colour image scan