[Paraview] Crash in animation with paraview III

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Stefano,

Unfortunately, you cannot animate a file series directly in 3.0 as you
could in 2.6. We will add this feature back in 3.2. Having said that,
the crash is a bug. The file name track should not be there in the
first place. We will fix that in the next patch release.

You can animate file series of XML-based vtk files (.vtu .vtp .pvu
.pvtp etc...) by writing a simple .pvd wrapper file. The pvd file
would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"
compressor="vtkZLibData
Compressor">
  <Collection>
    <DataSet timestep="0"  file="file1.vtp"/>
    <DataSet timestep="1"  file="file2.vtp"/>
    <DataSet timestep="2"  file="file3.vtp"/>
  </Collection>
</VTKFile>

Note that timestep is actually a floating point number so you can
associate any time value with a timestep. This value can then be
displayed through the time annotation source.

-berk

On 5/28/07, szaghi at infinito.it <szaghi at infinito.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am very happy for the new 3.0.1 release of Paraview, it
> is a big step in future respect the 2.6 version... but I
> have a problem; I am not sure how one can create an
> animation with paraview III (the "time step" button in the
> source editor (parameter) is missing), but I do the
> following sequence: I open a vtk file in a folder with a
> lot of other vtk files; then, in the "animation
> inspector", I add a key frame (property to animate= file
> name); when I push the play button paraview crash with the
> message "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". I know that
> probably this sequence doesn't create any animation
> (someone can tell me the correct sequece?), but the crash
> is unexpected...
> I am using paraview-3.0.1-linux-x86_em64 on a single
> processor
> workstation (amd64 3800+ with 2 GB of ram).
> Stefano
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