<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3242" dir="ltr">Hi all! I use Paraview 4.3.1. I am creating a new animation (with four panels combined) by editing an existing state file (*.pvsm) that I use as template. <br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3173"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3175">The names of the legacy vtk files that I am loading as frames, are tailed by a progressive file counter (such as *.0001.vtk, *.0002.vtk and so forth). At this stage I am not able/inclined to change this arrangement.<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3177"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3179">The time annotation shows the 0-based file counter, while I would like to show time values out of a given sequence:<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3181"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3183">I then thought that editing the property field "TimestepValues" from<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3185"> <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4553.TimestepValues" number_of_elements="6"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3187"> <Element index="0" value="0"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3189"> <Element index="1" value="1"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3191"> <Element index="2" value="2"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3193"> <Element index="3" value="3"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3195"> <Element index="4" value="4"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3197"> <Element index="5" value="5"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3199"> </Property><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3201">into<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3203"> <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4555.TimestepValues" number_of_elements="6"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3205"> <Element index="0" value="0"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3207"> <Element index="1" value="0.6"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3209"> <Element index="2" value="1.25"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3211"> <Element index="3" value="1.85"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3213"> <Element index="4" value="2.5"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3215"> <Element index="5" value="3.1"/><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3217"> </Property><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3219">would have worked well. (I repeat this for all occurrences of TimestepValues owing to the four-panel arrangement.) <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3323" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3329" dir="ltr">However this is not sufficient, since the new settings are ignored and even overwritten when I save the modified state file.<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3221"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3223">--1--<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3225">Is there any other feature in the pvsm file that I should tweak to make this procedure effective? <br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3227">--2--<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3229">Or is this idea ill-fated from the outset? <br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3231">--3--<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3233">If 2==true is the case, is there any recommended way so that the time annotation marks a user defined sequence of values?<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3235"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3237">Thanks for thinking along and helping me out with tips and wisdom.<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3239"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447691840845_3241">Giordano <br></div></div></body></html>