[Paraview] Animation view

[Dominik Szczerba]

If you have regular vtk legacy files everything should work out of the 
box, just point the file requester to the collapsed group and not a 
single file. If your data is in custom format as mine then you have to 
implement a plugin reader, quite well explained somewhere on the Wiki 
pages. To load time series now you have two choices, either you 
implement time series methods yourself inside your reader (see solution 
by Mike) or add a proxy to your legacy plugin xml file (see solution by 
Berk, and my comments at the end).
hope that helps.
Dominik

Paul Edwards wrote:
> Hi Dominik,
> 
> Thanks for your response - I found you post in the mailing list.  I'm a 
> bit confused though - do I have to write my own plugin in order to do 
> anything with time?  Are there no standard formats available?
> 
> I downloaded the data files from here:
> 
> http://personal.cscs.ch/~jfavre/Projects/vtkLEA/vtklea.htm
> 
> When I select to open the file it does group all the files together but 
> it will only seem to load the first one in.  Do I have to write my own 
> reader in order to have time steps enabled and return the right data 
> depending on the time step?  I can't see why there shouldn't be a 
> generic reader to automatically do this - am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 2008/5/15 Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch 
> <mailto:domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch>>:
> 
>     I had just been successful with this approach, just check the ML.
>     -- Dominik
> 
>     Paul Edwards wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>         How do I create timesteps from a series of unstructured grids
>         and solutions?  At the moment the files are all stored
>         separately.  I have tried making a time series data set
>         following -
>         http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series -
>         but this only seems to be loading in the first file.  Am I doing
>         something wrong here?
> 
>         Any help would be appreciated,
>         Paul
> 
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