[Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

[Scott, W Alan]

David,
I just checked with the Kitware 3.2.1 version from the www.paraview.org
site, and it uses off screen rendering - at least on my machine.
Windows XP.

If you recompile, use the VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN:BOOL=ON flag.

alan 

-----Original Message-----
From: paraview-bounces+wascott=sandia.gov at paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+wascott=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On Behalf Of
David Neckels
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:29 PM
To: Berk Geveci
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

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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