[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Opacity crashing ParaView and Value Range field for creating multiple slices is missing

[Mary Draney Blomme]

Alan,

I successfully upgraded my OpenGL version and changing opacity works just
fine now.

Thanks again for your help.

- Mary

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:

>  Mary,
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> Since one computer works and the other doesn’t, sounds like a graphics
> card issue to me.  Try updating your graphics drivers?  Also, try PV
> 4.3.0.  I know there was a problem with some volume rendering for older
> versions of OpenGL.  This should be fixed for PV 4.3.0.  Note that the next
> version of ParaView will require a somewhat newer version of OpenGL than PV
> 4.3.0, so if this is the problem, you are on borrowed time for volume
> rendering and opacity rendering.
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> I just tried, and got multiple slices to work just fine.  The trick is to
> click on the blue plus sign, slightly right of the Value Range window.  You
> can then edit the value that appears.  Does that work?
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> Alan
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> *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Mary
> Draney Blomme
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:16 PM
> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Opacity crashing ParaView and Value
> Range field for creating multiple slices is missing
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> Hi,
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> I'm new to ParaView and going through the first webinar, using the demo
> data set disk_out.ref. I'm using ParaView 4.2.0 on two different Windows
> 64-bit computers.
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> I'm having two problems, one on each computer.
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> 1. On the first computer, a desktop, when I go to change opacity of the
> main disk_out_ref.ex2 object, ParaView crashes. Is this a problem with my
> graphics card?
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> 2. On the second computer, a laptop, the opacity changes just fine,
> however, for creating multiple slices, the Value Range field is missing
> (under the Properties tab for Slice 1, immediately under the "Triangulate
> the slice" option). How do I get it to show up? I have tried quitting and
> restarting, and also tried ParaView 4.3.0 and had no success.
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> Thanks,
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> - Mary
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