[Paraview] Animation over file names

[Kent Eschenberg]

Dave,

After you read and "Accept"ed one VTK file click on "Timesteps" to make 
sure the right-hand list shows all your timesteps. The reader's "Timestep" 
slider should allow you to manually change to any of your timesteps. If 
this looks good PV knows about all your timesteps.

Then, in the animator tracks, expand the reader's options until you get 
down to the "Filename" track. This track actually only changes the timestep 
index but the effect is animation over the filenames.

This lets me animate over several hundred *.vtu files so I would think it 
will work for your *.vtk files.

Kent

--On Friday, July 15, 2005 01:38:06 PM -0500 Dave Semeraro 
<semeraro at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi paraviewers,
>
> I know this has been asked before but google and searching the vtk
> archives does not give me
> the answer I want so here goes...
>
> I have a series of time step files and I want to animate over the file
> names. I am using paraview
> 2.0. How does one do this. You used to be able to do it from the
> animation panel but that
> interface has changed. It is now keyframe animation. My files are
> cleverly named file0.vtk through
> file1600.vtk. They are the old style file format. Paraview reads them
> just fine but I cant animate
> over the file names like I used to. Anyone else done this before?
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
> Dave Semeraro Ph.D.
> Visualization and Virtual Environments Group
> NCSA University of Illinois
> 605 E. Springfield Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820
> Semeraro at ncsa.uiuc.edu
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