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can anyone think of a clever way to measure the total irradiance on a surface?
im doing a solar study for a personal project, and it would be really cool if i could test various solar panel arrangements to see which provides the most output over the course of a year. there are many (expensive) pieces of software dedicated to this, but i dont need accurate final values, just relative comparisons. and it seems almost everything i need is right here in max and vray.
id imagine vraylightmeter could help, but a) im not sure how you would return an overall value for a selected surface, and b) how to add the values over time (an entire year, apart from painfully, manually) obviously i could just pick specific days throughout the year, but id still need an overall value, for a given surface, for a whole day.
i also expect somebody is going to tell me to use the csv files and make a spreadsheet. eew.
im doing a solar study for a personal project, and it would be really cool if i could test various solar panel arrangements to see which provides the most output over the course of a year. there are many (expensive) pieces of software dedicated to this, but i dont need accurate final values, just relative comparisons. and it seems almost everything i need is right here in max and vray.
id imagine vraylightmeter could help, but a) im not sure how you would return an overall value for a selected surface, and b) how to add the values over time (an entire year, apart from painfully, manually) obviously i could just pick specific days throughout the year, but id still need an overall value, for a given surface, for a whole day.
i also expect somebody is going to tell me to use the csv files and make a spreadsheet. eew.
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