[Paraview] Animating simple legacy formats files

[Andrew Jesse Connell]

Berk Geveci wrote:
>>  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
Thanks, Berk. I'm glad to hear support for time series animation will be 
back soon. By the way, will the legacy VTK format continue to be 
supported in the future? Are there any plans for phasing it out?

Jesse