[Paraview] Animating simple legacy formats files

[Berk Geveci]

>  You mentioned  using vtu files; are you sure the same method will work for
> the legacy vtk format that Hom is using? I've been under the impression that
> Paraview 3 doesn't support timesteps with that format, and that the xml and
> legacy formats can't be mixed. I'd be happy to learn otherwise, though,
> since I've also been using legacy vtk files for unstructured grids of FEM
> data, and could animate them in earlier Paraview versions. (My plan so far
> has been to switch to the .vtu format and then use a pvd file, as you said.)

I am afraid it is not possible to point to .vtk files from a .pvd
file. A pvd file can only point to .vtX files (X being s, i, p, u
...). We are working on adding  the time series animation support to
ParaView 3 now. It will be in 3.2 (to be release at the end of
summer).

-berk