[Paraview] Animation over file names

[Dave Semeraro]

Kent,

Thanks for the reply. I opened one file ( file0.vtk) and then clicked on 
the timestep button. It
only showed me the one time step. Any idea why it does not see the rest? Do 
I have to name
them in some particular way?

Dave
At 02:50 PM 7/15/2005 -0400, Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>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
>>(217) 244-1852
>
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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
(217) 244-1852