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Referencing a perforated RADIANCE mixfunc material with perforate.cal

I am trying to render a mixfunc material which uses the "perforate.cal" cal file and applies perforations in the y-direction to a plane with the metal material "aluminum"

I have the perforate.cal file in the Radiance/lib folder

Everything works fine when i assign materials directly to the "CreateHBSrfs" component, such as:

void metal aluminum
0
0
5 0.8 0.8 0.8 0 0.0

But when i connect the mixfunc, i get an error when i run the simulation.

void mixfunc y_perforation
6 aluminum void y_hole perforate.cal -s 0.1
0
1 0.5

error is:

[KeyNotFoundException]: Void

...Does not seem to be able to find something

I want to make sure i am defining the materials appropriately in HB

Any suggests, as always, APPRECIATED !

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Hi,

I didn't open your file but I have two suggestions based on the material definition that may help:

1. I think you cannot pass void as one of the materials. If you want to create a perforated metal then I you can create a glass with 100% trans. and pass it as the first material.

2. Make sure to copy perforate.cal to the study folder or give it the full path

void mixfunc y_perforation
aluminum airGlass y_hole c:/radiance/lib/perforate.cal -s 0.1
0
1 0.5

1 and 2 did the trick!

thanks

Hi, I have a mixfunc .cal material That I a am struggling with. I have 3 materials created the last one is the .cal that includes the other 2 but I keep getting this error. Am I doing it in a wrong way?

Please advise. 

Hi mohamed. Hard to tell. Can you upload your [simplified] file?

Hi Mostapha, 

Here you go...

Thanks

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Hi M0hamed. I assume it's very late to reply to this but just for the reference you're passing trans as vname which should be a number between 0-1.

http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/ray.html#Mixtures

thank's

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