Calculation of surface tempertures within microclimate simulations with LBT 1.2.0

[chris]

@Cionsara ,

You should read the LBT 1.2 release notes:

Ladybug Tools for Grasshopper 1.2.0 Release

Dearest Ladybug Tools Community, We are happy to announce another stable release of Ladybug Tools (LBT) for Grasshopper (version 1.2.0)! You can download it from Food4Rhino and install by following the instructions here. For people who already have the LBT 1.1.0 plugin installed, you can upgrade to version 1.2.0 just by updating your simulation engines to those in the compatibility matrix and running the second component in the installer.gh: [image] Remember that you also need to run the “…

… and you should read the reason why the comfort maps are a “first draft”.

The thermal mapping components run an EnergyPlus simulation as part of the recipe. So that his how they are computing indoor MRT. Right now, this is simplified, though since the recipes don’t compute view factors from test points to the surfaces. This should be changed by the next stable release.

Also, you can always visualize E+ surface temperatures by loading up the HBJSON model, the EnergyPlus SQL file, and using the “HB Color Faces” component. You’ll find both the HBJSON and the sql in the folder in which the comfort mapping study was run.