[Paraview] Animation ... does it actually work?

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Utkarsh,

Thankyou very much for the help. 

I will look at it tonight/tomorrow. Is there any chance of putting the
Animation Tops in the mail you refer to below into the FAQ for ParaView?

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:03
To: Andrew Maclean
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Animation ... does it actually work?

I am attaching a paraview state file demonstrating how a "peeling onion" 
effect can be achieved.
Edit the file to set the variable "Vox8DataFile" to point to the 
vox8_ascii.vtk file provided with paraview. Then, try loading the 
session in paraview. If you get errors, make sure that you are using an 
updated CVS version of Paraview, (opacity animation has been enabled in 
CVS version (was not possible earlier)).
Once the session has loaded successfully, simply play the animation. You 
can use the VCR control (enable in Menu -- Window | Toolbars | 
Animation) or from the keyframe animation window (Menu --- View | 
Keyframe Animation) to Play the animation.

For additional animation interface tips please refer to:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2005-March/001260.html

Utkarsh


Andrew Maclean wrote:
> I want to start off with a set of 20 surfaces and in an animation remove
> them one by one. In other words, I want a peeling onion effect.
> 
> There seems to be no way of making a surface fade out (i.e. animate its
> opacity). All I want to do is to set a start value for all the surfaces
and
> then select each surface and run its opacity from 1 to 0 over a second or
> so.
> 
> I just purchased the book but what the book refers to is not in the recent
> version of ParaView. The book talks about a completely different animation
> control. ParaView 2.1 has a KeyFrame animation and something called
> Animation tracks. But no popup help on what to do. There seems to be no
way
> of setting parameters dragging the sliders has no effect.
> 
> It is not a user friendly interface - it needs a lot of documentation.
> 
> Has someone done anything like this?
> If so can they please give me some pointers.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
>   Andrew
> 
> 
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