Alex,

Again, could you specify how you are loading your files?
If you open them as a file series, then your data should be considered as
temporal and the filter should work.
See https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series

Best,

*Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD

*Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
*Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*


2017-12-01 14:11 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <abar...@gmail.com>:

> I was able to find this thread that mentions that maybe the input data set
> needs to have a DATA_TIME_STEPS key, but I am not sure how to specify this
> with the point3d data.
> https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2016-February/036211.html
>
> Is there a way just to use whatever mechanism the animate functionality
> uses?
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Alex Barrie <abar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have one file per timestep and each file is a list of points, X,
>> Y, Z, C with one point per line. I am loading it with the 'Point3D' input.
>> Thanks!
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Joachim Pouderoux <
>> joachim.pouder...@kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>> Could you specify how is your data split over time? Do you have one file
>>> per timestep? How do you load your data with ParaView?
>>>
>>> Joachim
>>>
>>> *Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD
>>>
>>> *Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
>>> *Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*
>>>
>>>
>>> 2017-11-30 9:55 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <abar...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, I see it now - I missed it because it wasn't in the "Temporal"
>>>> tab.
>>>>
>>>> When I apply this filter, however, I get an error about a missing
>>>> DATA_TIME_STEPS information key. Is this something I can specify or does it
>>>> have to be in the raw data somehow?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Joachim Pouderoux <
>>>> joachim.pouder...@kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think here the filter "Temporal Particles to Pathlines" should do
>>>>> the trick.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Joachim
>>>>>
>>>>> *Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD
>>>>>
>>>>> *Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
>>>>> *Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-11-29 14:33 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <abar...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have animated particles which are imported from point data (x,y,z).
>>>>>> I want to add a particle trace, but I am not sure what to put for the
>>>>>> 'seed'. I am not using a vector field, but rather just a list of particle
>>>>>> positions that updates over time. How can I just add a trace to each
>>>>>> particle in the list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>
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