[Paraview] Animating the camera

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Check your play mode. Is it set to "Snap to Timesteps" and is ParaView
reporting that your dataset has only 1 timstep? Change the animation
play mode to Sequence and try.

Also if you are simply orbiting about the active object, you don't
have to do anything after step (2). It should by default create an
orbit about the object that's currently selected in the pipeline
browser.

Utkarsh

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> It works with a basic example:
> 1) Add a sphere source.
> 2) In "animate view", choose "Camera" and click the blue "Plus"
> 3) double click in the timeline near "Camera"
> 4) double click "path..." next to time "0"
> 5) click ok
> 6) click ok
> 7) click "play"
>
> the sphere rotates as I expect.
>
> However, when I do exactly the same thing, but with step 1 replaced by
> opening a vtp file instead of adding a sphere source, nothing get animated
> at all.  Sometimes when I click on the camera timeline the Time's are both
> nan. It doesn't seem like the camera should be attached to either of these
> objects, making it weird that it works in one case and not the other? Any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> Don't use the "Animation Inspector". It is  going to be deprecated in
>> the next release. Use the "Animation View" to create animations for
>> the camera. Another caveat, the camera animation functionality is
>> still a bit "raw", so expect some usability issues.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I want to do a "fly around" of a model. I opened the animation
>> > inspector,
>> > and chose "selected object: Camera", and click "add keyframe". Then
>> > under
>> > "camera position" I clicked "Create path" (Because I want to leave the
>> > focal
>> > point at (0,0,0) ).  The main paraview window disappears and a "Create
>> > Control Points" window pops up. When I click "OK", it seg faults. Has
>> > anyone
>> > else experienced this? / Am I doing something wrong?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > David
>> >
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