[Paraview] Volume Data Not Visible Using Client/Server

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

BTW, I've reported a bug in case you want to follow the development:
http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14792

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> I'm looking into this. I can indeed reproduce the issue that the
> threshold is not "truely" respected when rendering volumes. I'll track
> it down. Thanks for reporting.
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:51 PM,  <Robert.Atwood at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
>> As soon as I tried client-server method of using paraview, I found that volume viewing just gave me a blank screen, though 'point' or 'slice' gave me some kind of view as expected.
>>
>> A little googleing found this thread from 1.5 years ago:
>>
>>
>> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2013-January/027283.html
>>
>> ___quote___
>>
>> I probably know the volume rendered issue.  I forget why but when connected to a
>>  remote server ParaView won't volume render on the client.
>>  Further, there is a threshold where toy to small datasets
>>  get rendered on the client.  Change this threshold to 0,
>> and volume rendering should occur on the remote server,
>> and work correctly.
>> Edit/ Settings/ RenderView / Server/ Remote Render Threshold == 0.
>>
>> Alan
>> ___ end quote ____
>>
>>
>>
>> This seems to behave this way still in 4.1.0  (jan 2014)?  Any progress? I note that the dataset I was
>> rendering is much bigger than the 3mb threshold set by default, yet without setting the threshold to zero, no
>> volume rendering was presented on my screen.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
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