Is it possible to model multi-modifer complex radiance materials in Honeybee?

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Hi Mostapha,

I have the following definition:

void brightfunc Woodgrain_b1

4 dirt dirt.cal -s 0.008

0

1 0.15

Woodgrain_b1 brightfunc Woodgrain_b2

4 zgrain woodpat.cal -s 0.016

0

1 0.55

Woodgrain_b2 texfunc WoodGrain_tex

6 xgrain_dx ygrain_dx zgrain_dx woodtex.cal -s 0.01

0

1 0.075

WoodGrain_tex plastic WoodGrain_NonColor2

0

0

5 0.364 0.187 0.072 0.006 0.0

This creates the texture (on the table) below:

Is it possible for me to use a multi-modifier material like this in Honeybee ?

Thanks,

Sarith

(Update: I figured out a hack to do this in MSH2RAD but I still don’t know if it is possible to add this to the Honeybee Library).

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Hi Sarith, Yes. It should be possible. Here is an example for water. You need to add each material to the library separately and then you can apply them to HBSurfaces.

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Mostapha, thanks.