[Paraview] Animations with multiple .pvts files

[Berk Geveci]

In paraview 3, we disabled support for file series when a file format
supports time. The easiest way of solving your problem is to write a
pvd file that points to your pvts files, one per time step. pvd is a
meta format that points to one or more .vtX or .pvtX files. It can be
used to group multiple files or create time series out of multiple
files. There has been quite a few e-mails on pvd file format on this
mailing list so look at the archives for more information. I am not
sure if someone had time to put this information on the wiki yet.
Maybe someone will volunteer :-)

-berk

On 11/26/07, Walter Landry <walter at geodynamics.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a number of pvts (and associated vts) files numbered
>
> fields.00000.pvts
> fields.00010.pvts
> fields.00020.pvts
> ...
>
> I can read them in individually, but I can not, for the life of me,
> figure out how to animate them with the 3.2.1 Linux binary.  I try to
> select them all in the file open dialog, but I only end up getting one
> of the files (fields.00000.pvts).  Then, in the Animation Inspector,
> the only options I am given for "Property to Animate" is Cell Arrays
> and Point Arrays.
>
> I was able to animate with the 2.6.1 release because it automatically
> figured out that there were multiple time steps.  With 3.0.2, it is
> mostly the same as 3.2.1 except I now get an option of "File Name" in
> "Property to Animate".  Selecting that does not give me anything,
> though.  If I add a keyframe, then trying to run the animation crashes
> the 3.0.2 executable.  I don't know if it matters, but multiple
> timesteps will not fit in memory.
>
> I feel like I am missing some really basic step.
>
> Thanks,
> Walter Landry
> walter at geodynamics.org
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