[Paraview] Cannot find Map Scalars

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed Oct 23 08:24:09 EDT 2013


Map Scalars should do the trick. Can you send me a sample dataset to
reproduce the issue?

Utkarsh


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Lodron, Gerald
<Gerald.Lodron at joanneum.at>wrote:

> Hello again,****
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> So i tried MapScalars but it doesn’t do what i expected. May you can tell
> me what I am making wrong:****
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> I have a vtkPolyData with Points (and Polycells) in it****
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> Then I have a data array of type unsigned char[3] with same size as points
> which are referring to the color****
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> But I cannot set the visualization in a way that it uses those entries, I
> can only select “Magnitude, X, Y and Z”, Map Scalars seem to map only the
> magnitude through a colormap…..****
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> Any hints?****
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> *Von:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> *Im Auftrag von *Lodron, Gerald
> *Ge**sendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013 13:31
> *An:* Utkarsh Ayachit
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> *Cc:* Paraview User (paraview at paraview.org)
> *Betreff:* Re: [Paraview] Cannot find Map Scalars****
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> Omg, Thanks, thanks, thanks****
>
> Thats the stuff where I usually search years….****
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> *Von:* Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>]
>
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013 13:25
> *An:* Lodron, Gerald
> *Cc:* Paraview User (paraview at paraview.org)
> *Betreff:* Re: [Paraview] Cannot find Map Scalars****
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> Click on the "Toggle advanced properties" button to see all properties and
> you will see Map Scalar. You can also search for the property name in the
> search field. Refer to http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/491 for more
> information.****
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> Utkarsh****
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> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Lodron, Gerald <Gerald.Lodron at joanneum.at>
> wrote:****
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> Hello****
>
>  ****
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> From online Help I think that the functionality I need from my last mail
> is placed in „Map Scalars“, but I do not have that option in my Color
> display tab. Also the interpolate scalars option is missing. I am using
> Paraview 3.98.1 on Windows, can anyone tell me where to find it?****
>
>  ****
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> Thanks,****
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>  ****
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> *Von:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> *Im Auftrag von *Lodron, Gerald
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013 10:41
> *An:* Paraview User (paraview at paraview.org)
> *Betreff:* [Paraview] Coloring vtkPolyData with Scalars****
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>  ****
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> Hello****
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>  ****
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> I wrote a Reader Plugin which successfully outputs a vtkPolyData (with
> polygons only) and including two point based scalar fields containing color
> informations:****
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> “Color1” unsigned char[3]****
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> “Color2” unsigned char[3]****
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>  ****
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> But I can only select “Magnitude, X, Y and Z” in the color properties of
> each data array, how can I tell paraview that it should take the unsigned
> char array directly as RGB values?****
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> Thanks for any help,****
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> Best regards, Gerald Lodron****
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