[Paraview] How to use vtk sequence of files to animate them?

[Andrew Somorjai]

Hello,

Thus far this is what I've accomplished with Paraview but I cannot seem to get my animation to run properly as I will explain at the end.

1. I took a sequence of 30 vtk format files made by Athena (MHD numerical software) and imported all of them into paraview.
2. I added every single one of them to the animation view.
3. I changed each vtk grid to only run for 1 second and each vtk is a frame with 30 seconds and 30 frames total.
    Basically frame 1 is before frame 2 and so on and none of them overlap in time.
4. I noticed that toggling a  "eye" in the pipeline browser turns off specific vtk grids in the 3d viewer and for some reason this is where things don't work.

If I select all of the "eyes" and turn them on only the last one turned on causes the selected 3d vtk grid to appear. I can only render that image when I
try to animate all the 30 frames using file->save animation->avi. I expect that at each frame every second a different grid would show and get animated.

Please feel free to ask more questions regarding my setup. I would post screenshots but the mailing list is archaic as this is 2013 and better alternatives exist now.

Andrew
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