[Paraview] Animating the camera

[David Doria]

I had tried all of the modes, and nothing changed. I tried again after your
response, stopping after step 2 and making sure it was on sequence mode and
still nothing was animated. Are you able to get the correct behavior? I've
tried it with a few different models with the same result, and I've done all
of those steps in every order I could imagine and tried setting the
start/end times in the animation view and in the "editing camera mode" to no
avail.

Thanks,

David


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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