[Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

[David Neckels]

Hi Berk,

I have version 3.2.0.
I also have a version 2.6.2 sitting around.  Actually, on this version I 
recompiled the source, changing a line (I forget where--it was on the 
message board a while back) that allowed me to create images using 
offline rendering (before saving an image would crash paraview).

-David N.

Berk Geveci wrote:
> Which version of paraview are you using? For a while, ParaView has
> been using offscreen rendering to capture images, as long as your
> OpenGL driver supports offscreen rendering. Which platform are you on?
>
> -berk
>
> On 12/14/07, David Neckels <dneckels at ucar.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hopefully this question is not too basic, but here goes:
>>
>> I have a sequence of huge mesh files (400000+) degrees of freedom, 10000
>> elements and would like to render a movie using paraview.
>> I have saved the files as euler_out_{timestep}.vtk, and can render the
>> animation, it just takes a long time.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the only way I know how to make a movie is to have
>> paraview render each image to my computer screen--if a window goes in
>> front of the image, it ruins the movie.  I would like to be able to
>> start an animation, leave for the evening, and come back to a movie.
>> Or work on other things while the movie is being made in the background.
>>
>> I guess one way is to figure out how to disable my screen saver, etc..
>> and render over night, but I was wondering if it is possible to have
>> paraview render completely offline/offscreen (perhaps even on a
>> different computer)...
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -David N.
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