Simulating electric lighting in LBT using .ies files

[chris]

A black sky is already easy to do via the [HB Certain Illuminance](Certain Illuminance - HB-Radiance Primer sky). Just plug in a value of zero.

FYI, I think you’ll probably first see this workaround implemented before we get around to full-fledged support for luminaires:

Ladybug Tools for Grasshopper 1.4.0 Release

Hi @martyb , Before we support luminaires in LBT, we’ll probably sooner enable you to plug Radiance Model folders into the LBT Honeybee Radiance recipes, which will provide a workaround for making this happen. You’ll basically be able to drop the .rad file created from the .ies definition into the scene subfolder of the Radiance folder. Then you’ll plug the path to the Model folder into the _model input of the recipe. I’m trying to have this implemented before the next stable release. You’ll kn…