[Paraview] vti formats - multiple scalars ascii

[Brad King]

Ben McLean (finlaylabs) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am a recent fan of Paraview, it is doing a great (and free) job of
> visualising my seismic data in 3D.
> 
> Despite best efforts though I cannot simply get our proprietary software
> outputting correct formats for files to hold several scalar data... I have
> read and re-read the pdf widely available on vtk formats, and have tried
> many permutations of the following file, with no success. Does anyone know
> what the correct format should be?
[snip]
>             <PointData Scalars="DispX" Scalars="DispY" Scalars="DispZ">

The "Scalars" attribute on PointData cannot be repeated, and it is
optional anyway.  It is only used to specify which nested array should
be treated as the active scalars by default (this is a VTK thing).
Otherwise the file looks fine on first glance.

-Brad