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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Cory,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>My NVIDIA card was indeed not being used for rendering. Switching to NVIDIA perfectly solved my problems on ParaView v5.4. Thanks very much for your answer!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Yu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cory Quammen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 3, 2017 9:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> Yves Rogez <yves.rogez@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr><br><b>Cc:</b> ParaView <paraview@paraview.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] ParaView unable to adjust object opacity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yu and Yves,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Clearly we need to fix the issue with Intel graphics, but are you sure your NVIDIA card is being used for rendering? You can check in ParaView by going to Help -> About and see which OpenGL Vendor is listed. It should say "NVIDIA Corporation."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it is not being used for ParaView, you can go to the NVIDIA Control Panel and under Manage 3D Settings, set your "Preferred graphics processor" to "High-performance NVIDIA processor".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>HTH,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cory<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Yves Rogez <<a href="mailto:yves.rogez@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr" target="_blank">yves.rogez@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p>I've noticed that the black box problem can come from the FXAA enabled in the render settings (I have the same problem with my computer & 5.4) but it does not explain the problem with opacity. (my graphics card is a GeForce GTX770M)<o:p></o:p></p><p>Yves<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Le 02/07/2017 à 23:41, Yu Xiang a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks very much for your reply. My computer has two graphic cards: Intel HD Graphics 4000 and NVIDA NVS 5400M, respectively. I switch to 5.3 and no longer have those two problems. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Yu</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a name="m_-9045163973518383244__MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> David E DeMarle [</span><a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 2, 2017 7:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> Yu Xiang </span><a href="mailto:yux1991@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><yux1991@gmail.com></span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br><b>Cc:</b> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>paraview@paraview.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] ParaView unable to adjust object opacity</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>These are most likely caused by a known bug in 5.4.0 with some graphics hardware that we are trying to fix in 5.4.1. Can you let us know what your gpu is? Also try 5.3 and let us know if both problems work there.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Jun 30, 2017 10:51 PM, "Yu Xiang" <<a href="mailto:yux1991@gmail.com" target="_blank">yux1991@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I downloaded the ParaView Binary Installers (ParaView-5.4.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.exe) from <a href="https://www.paraview.org/download/" target="_blank">https://www.paraview.org/download/</a> and installed it on my Thinkpad T430 which is running Windows 10. I was using ParaView for the first time and found two things puzzling:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-9045163973518383244m-7160707241507116115msolistparagraph>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>When I open ParaView, the default window looks like the following. There is a small black square on the bottom left corner in RenderView1 (circled in red). I couldn’t figure out why it showed up there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-9045163973518383244m-7160707241507116115msolistparagraph><img border=0 width=1601 height=908 id="m_-9045163973518383244m_-7160707241507116115Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D2F3F3.20EB74F0" alt="imap://rogezy@hermes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/aaLists/03_Paraview%3E831190?header=quotebody&part=1.1.2&filename=image001.png"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-9045163973518383244m-7160707241507116115msolistparagraph>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Then I opened the first Example Visualization and selected Clip2 under can.ex2. When I tried to adjust the Opacity under Styling in the Properties tab, any value other than 1 will make the object in the RenderView1 window disappear like the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-9045163973518383244m-7160707241507116115msolistparagraph><img border=0 width=1600 height=908 id="m_-9045163973518383244m_-7160707241507116115Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D2F3F3.20EB74F0" alt="imap://rogezy@hermes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/aaLists/03_Paraview%3E831190?header=quotebody&part=1.1.3&filename=image002.png"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-9045163973518383244m-7160707241507116115msolistparagraph>I tried other examples, and similar things happened. I couldn’t figure out why.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Does anybody know what might be going on and how I can fix it?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yu<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><br><br>Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br><br>Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a><br><br>Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a><br><br>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>-- <br>Yves Rogez<br><br><b>IPAG</b><br><em>Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble </em><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#888888'>Bat D de Physique - BP. 53 - 38041 Grenoble - FRANCE<br><br></span><span style='color:#888888'>tel : </span><a href="tel:+33%204%2076%2063%2052%2080" target="_blank">+33 (0)4 76 63 52 80</a><span style='color:#888888'><br>lab : </span><a href="tel:+33%204%2076%2063%2057%2060" target="_blank">+33 (0)4 76 63 57 60</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><br><br>Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br><br>Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a><br><br>Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a><br><br>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cory Quammen<br>Staff R&D Engineer<br>Kitware, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>