[Paraview] How to do animation?

[Berk Geveci]

We no longer support file series of pvtu files. We dropped support for
file series of formats that can support time natively. You need to
write a pvd file that points to your pvtu files and load that one.
Your pvd file should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"
compressor="vtkZLibDataCompressor">
  <Collection>
    <DataSet timestep="0.1" group="" part="0" file="foo0.pvtu"/>
    <DataSet timestep="0.2" group="" part="0" file="foo1.pvtu"/>
...
  </Collection>
</VTKFile>

-berk


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Hsieh, Pei-Ying (MED US)
<pei-ying.hsieh at siemens.com> wrote:
>
>  Dear Paraview group:
>
>  I have been using paraview-2.4 for a couple of years now and switched to
>  paraview-3.2.1 a few days ago.
>
>  It used to be pretty easy to make animation video.  But, I am very
>  confuse about animation in pv-3.2.1.
>
>  According to an article in paraview wiki, I only need to open the top
>  level file, say file...vtu (actually, I have something called
>  fileN.pvtu).  Then, paraview will handle the sequence.  But, when I
>  selected file...pvtu, in pipeline browser, it only showed file1.pvtu.
>  And, animation only anaimate within that file.
>
>  Can someone shed some light on what I missed?  Thanks!
>
>  Best,
>
>  Pei
>
>
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