[Paraview] ParaView unable to adjust object opacity

Yves Rogez yves.rogez at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Mon Jul 3 10:46:24 EDT 2017


Hi Cory,

thanks for your answer, indeed that solved the problem. That's weird 
that the graphics processor was the wrong one. As far as I remembered 
the graphics processor was the good one before. It solved the FXAA 
(black box) and opacity issues.

Cheers,

Yves


Le 03/07/2017 à 15:37, Cory Quammen a écrit :
> Yu and Yves,
>
> Clearly we need to fix the issue with Intel graphics, but are you sure 
> your NVIDIA card is being used for rendering? You can check in 
> ParaView by going to Help -> About and see which OpenGL Vendor is 
> listed. It should say "NVIDIA Corporation."
>
> If it is not being used for ParaView, you can go to the NVIDIA Control 
> Panel and under Manage 3D Settings, set your "Preferred graphics 
> processor" to "High-performance NVIDIA processor".
>
> HTH,
> Cory
>
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Yves Rogez 
> <yves.rogez at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr 
> <mailto:yves.rogez at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've noticed that the black box problem can come from the FXAA
>     enabled in the render settings (I have the same problem with my
>     computer & 5.4) but it does not explain the problem with opacity.
>     (my graphics card is a GeForce GTX770M)
>
>     Yves
>
>
>     Le 02/07/2017 à 23:41, Yu Xiang a écrit :
>>
>>     Thanks very much for your reply. My computer has two graphic
>>     cards: Intel HD Graphics 4000 and NVIDA NVS 5400M, respectively.
>>     I switch to 5.3 and no longer have those two problems.
>>
>>     Yu
>>
>>     *From:*David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com
>>     <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>]
>>     *Sent:* Sunday, July 2, 2017 7:10 AM
>>     *To:* Yu Xiang <yux1991 at gmail.com> <mailto:yux1991 at gmail.com>
>>     *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org <mailto:paraview at paraview.org>
>>     *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] ParaView unable to adjust object opacity
>>
>>     These are most likely caused by a known bug in 5.4.0 with some
>>     graphics hardware that we are trying to fix in 5.4.1. Can you let
>>     us know what your gpu is? Also try 5.3 and let us know if both
>>     problems work there.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     On Jun 30, 2017 10:51 PM, "Yu Xiang" <yux1991 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:yux1991 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I downloaded the ParaView Binary Installers
>>         (ParaView-5.4.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.exe) from
>>         https://www.paraview.org/download/
>>         <https://www.paraview.org/download/> and installed it on my
>>         Thinkpad T430 which is running Windows 10. I was using
>>         ParaView for the first time and found two things puzzling:
>>
>>         1.When I open ParaView, the default window looks like the
>>         following. There is a small black square on the bottom left
>>         corner in RenderView1 (circled in red). I couldn’t figure out
>>         why it showed up there.
>>
>>         imap://rogezy@hermes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/aaLists/03_Paraview%3E831190?header=quotebody&part=1.1.2&filename=image001.png
>>
>>         2.Then I opened the first Example Visualization and selected
>>         Clip2 under can.ex2. When I tried to adjust the Opacity under
>>         Styling in the Properties tab, any value other than 1 will
>>         make the object in the RenderView1 window disappear like the
>>         following:
>>
>>         imap://rogezy@hermes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/aaLists/03_Paraview%3E831190?header=quotebody&part=1.1.3&filename=image002.png
>>
>>         I tried other examples, and similar things happened. I
>>         couldn’t figure out why.
>>
>>         Does anybody know what might be going on and how I can fix it?
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>         Yu
>>
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