[Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

[Berk Geveci]

Ah, that explains it :-) So, here is the problem:
* The offscreen rendering implementation in your driver is buggy and
it causes a crash. So, I told you to comment out the line that enables
it.
* You want offscreen rendering.

Are you using Linux/Unix?

-berk

On 12/14/07, David Neckels <dneckels at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 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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