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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>Unless
something has changed while I wasn’t looking, volume rendering is not
supported with multiblock data. The issue with multiblock data is that there
probably is not a correct “visibility” order in which to render the
pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>You will either
have to extract a piece that can be volume rendered or else combine them all
into a single unstructured grid. I’m not quite sure how to do this right
now. Perhaps someone can chime in.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>BTW, we hope to
address many of these multiblock issues for ParaView 3.4.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>-Ken<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Rick Angelini(CISD/CIV)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 10, 2007
12:57 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> rnelias<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Paraview] [PV3-CVS]
client x server with Ensight SOS</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#6600cc" face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>I'll second the question about
the volume renderer. Where is it hiding in V3.x?<br>
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rnelias wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<pre wrap=""><font size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>*.SOS I love this extension. It sounds so proper in my case... ;o)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Problem report:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm trying to load an Ensight SOS file which points to other 4 case files.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PV-3.3.x got from CVS today compiled in both sides (Pentium-4 Windows x64 /<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SGI Altix 450 Suse). Offscreen rendering provided by SGI Mesa library.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Conection is fine (4 mpi processes, reverse connection --> 1 windows<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>client). The weirdness is that some datasets are successfully loaded while<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>others simply freezes my client (all of them written by exactly the same<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>routines). No error messages are printed anywhere. PV just sits there and do<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>nothing. When I kill my pvserver an error message is written in the client's<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>output<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ERROR: In<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>..\..\..\ParaView3\Servers\ServerManager\vtkSMArraySelectionInformationHelpe<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>r.cxx, line 79<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>vtkSMArraySelectionInformationHelper (10872B88): Error getting array<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>settings from server.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>My guess is that pvserver is getting lost with the number of files in my<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>working directory (which is not so many ... 4 + 4 x 450 x 2 = 3600 files). <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Another suspect: does PV load all time steps before producing the first<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>rendering? In this case, I'll need to wait until something happen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Recycling this messsage, just a last question:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- Where do I turn the volume rendering on in PV-3.3.x? It used stay in the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"Display Style\Representation"<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Renato N. Elias<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>============================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PhD student - <a
href="http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias">http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>High Performance Computing Center (NACAD)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><st1:place
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size=2 color="#6600cc" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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