[vtkusers] help displaying a set of points

[Michael Rice]

You probably need to set the Actor properties to display as points:

actor->GetPropery()->SetRepresentationToPoints()

If you've assigned scalars, then you need to turn those on too:

mapper->ScalarVisibilityOn()

Michael

On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:17 PM, wind wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a dataset that consists of XYZ point coordinates and one  
> scalar at each point. I want to display the points as individual  
> points, not a surface, not a wireframe, nothing. The points are not  
> related to each other, so I don't want to do anything to connect  
> them explicitly. I've tried just about every combination of  
> vtkUnstructuredGrid, vtkDataSetMapper and what not and I still end  
> up with a blank screen. I know the data is there and read in  
> correctly. I have the vtkPoints object and the vtkFloatArray for  
> scalars.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Gala
>
> Gala Wind
> (301) 614-6221
> wind at climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
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> SSAI, Inc.
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>
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