[Paraview] Animating 100's of polydata files

[Moreland, Kenneth]

The feature of reading .vtp files directly as a time series is a feature
that should be implemented for ParaView 3.4 (which will be released RSN).
In the mean time, you can get around the problem by creating a .pvd file
that points to all of the .vtp files you have as separate time steps.  The
following link shows an email in the archive demonstrating this:

http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2007-October/006109.html

-Ken


On 7/26/08 12:35 PM, "Karl Merkley" <karl at elemtech.com> wrote:

> I have several hundred polydata files (currently in .vtp format).  I
> am primarily interested in seeing how the grid structure changes over
> time in each of the files.  The  files are named with a sequential
> number.    How would I go about reading the files and animating this
> kind of morphing grid in Paraview?   I opened the filename..vtp and it
> displays the first file and the Pipeline Browser shows the object as
> filename* but I don't know how to get to the next file in this
> structure.
>
>   I am currently writing the files using a vtkXMLPolyDataWriter so if
> there is an easier way to write the files for animation, I can change
> that also.
>
>    Thanks,
>          Karl
>
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