[Paraview] Changing the default volume mapper in Paraview?

[pat marion]

There is a combo box in the Display tab that allows you to select the
volume mapper, but it looks like that combo box is not working.  I
know it used to work, does anyone know what happened?

Pat

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> I know it's kind of hacky, but you can simply edit the XML file and
> change the mapper used. Look at
> Servers/ServerManager/Resources/rendering.xml. In the XML for
> "UniformGridVolumeRepresentation"
> change FixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper to something else. Then after the
> definition for FixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper, add a new definition for
> the VolumeTextureMapper3D and use that in the
> "UniformGridVolumeRepresentation". I am not sure it's going to work
> out of the box. But work a try.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Biao She <shebiao at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>> I have debugged paraview for days. The reason is that I want to use
>> vtkOpenGLVolumeTextureMapper3d mapper instead of the default volume mapper
>> vtkFixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper in Paraview.
>> Till now, I haven't figured out how to do that. Has anyone done this before?
>> Any hint and help is greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
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