[Paraview] Animating camera in batch mode

[Adriano Gagliardi]

Thanks, Jean. I didn't actually check servermanager.animation options to see
what was available. 

Regards,

Adriano


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Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
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Computational Aerodynamics
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-----Original Message-----
From: Favre Jean [mailto:jfavre at cscs.ch] 
Sent: 03 September 2010 13:35
To: agagliardi at ara.co.uk; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RE: [Paraview] Animating camera in batch mode


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I would like to be able to orientate the camera whilst running batch scripts
for generating animations, as you can do in interactive mode. However, I'm
stuck on what to use for the AnimatedProxy. I tried the following and I get
an error message:

#move camera
keyc1 = servermanager.animation.CompositeKeyFrame()
keyc1.Interpolation = "Ramp"
keyc1.KeyTime = 0
keyc1.KeyValues = [0,0,0]
keyc2 = servermanager.animation.CompositeKeyFrame()
keyc2.KeyTime = 1.0
keyc2.KeyValues = [0.1,0,0]

cue2 = servermanager.animation.KeyFrameAnimationCue()
cue2.AnimatedProxy = GetRenderView()
cue2.AnimatedPropertyName = "CameraPosition"
cue2.KeyFrames = [keyc1,keyc2]

ERROR: In
/usr/people/gagliard/Paraview/FILES/ParaView3-Original/Servers/ServerManager
/vtkSMRampKeyFrameProxy.cxx, line 53
vtkSMRampKeyFrameProxy (0x2aac712b3770): Cue does not have domain or
property set!
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May I suggest to use the following:

cue2 = servermanager.animation.CameraAnimationCue()
keyc1 = servermanager.animation.CameraKeyFrame()
keyc2 = servermanager.animation.CameraKeyFrame()

keyc1.ListProperties() will give you all the properties you can animate;

['ClosedFocalPath', 'ClosedPositionPath', 'FocalPathPoints', 'FocalPoint',
'FocalPointMode', 'KeyTime', 'KeyValues', 'ParallelScale', 'Position',
'PositionMode', 'PositionPathPoints', 'ViewAngle', 'ViewUp']

The rest is up to you.
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Jean M. Favre
Swiss National Supercomputing Center


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