[Paraview] Problem with particle cloud rendering

[Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani]

Thanks Ken. It works now.

" In fact, I'm a bit surprised you can see the geometry at all. "
I think that's because Paraview resets the minimum value back to 1e-8.

Thanks again.
Mohamad



On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:

> A camera angle of 0 is erroneous. In fact, I'm a bit surprised you can see
> the geometry at all.
>
> I think what you mean to do is to put on parallel projection. That option
> is in the view settings.
>
> -Ken
>
> Sent from my iPad so blame autocorrect.
>
> On May 31, 2012, at 2:42 AM, "Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani" <mmnasr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to load vktPolydata file (time series) which shows point
> particles.
> > When I try to change the camera View Angle from the default value
> (30.0') to 0.0, ParaView messes the colors of those point particles and
> cannot exactly define the order of the objects in the camera view rendering
> process.
> >
> > To be more specific, I first load the vtkpolydata to show the particles.
> > Then, I load another vtk file to represent a solid surface.
> > Logically, without any opacity, the solid surface should block view
> where particles are covered. This is happeneing correctly in the defauly
> camera view angle, 30.0
> > (see attached, good.png)
> > When I change the camera angle view to 0, this is what I get.
> > (see attached, bad.png)
> >
> > I have tried this on 3.14.1 on both Ubuntu and Windows (64bit).
> > Can someone verify if this could be a bug?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mohamad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <good.png>
> > <bad.png>
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