Hmm, little confused here? Why not keep the timesteps in the reader unchanged and explcitly do the timestep of interest and save screenshot?
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Heiland, Randy <heil...@iu.edu> wrote: > Utkarsh, > > Thanks very much for that! Yes, after some fiddling, I got it to work, i.e., > I can save .png files for an animation! So now that I’m using the > Programmable Source(RequestInfo) script to accomplish the animation, how do > I, during a PV session, *easily* switch back to render a single file? > > For example, I can do: > frames = range(0,801,100) # render every 100th frame, including 800 > setOutputTimesteps (self, frames) > > or, I can explicitly list specific frames: > frames = [100,101] > > so, I thought this would do a single file, but it doesn’t (my previous frames > are still there): > frames = [600,] > > -Randy > > > >> On Dec 6, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> >> wrote: >> >> Randy, >> >> You attempting to mix the Python scripting for data processing and >> Python scripting for batch scripting. The two environments are >> separate. Here's how I'd tackle it. >> >> 1. Make your "Programmable Source" become a temporal source i.e. >> report to ParaView that it can produce timesteps matching the files >> your file series. See [i]. If you get this right, you shuold be able >> to render through all the files by hitting "Play" in the VCR control >> in the UI. >> 2. Now you can write a batch script that either loads the predefined >> pvsm state file or builds up the pipeline in Python itself and the >> either uses `SaveScreenshot` or `SaveAnimation` to save out the >> animation. >> >> You can then mix in camera animations too. You can always use the >> Python tracing in UI to figure out how to save images and/or animation >> in the batch scripting environment. >> >> Hope that helps. >> Utkarsh >> >> [i] >> https://blog.kitware.com/defining-time-varying-sources-with-paraviews-programmable-source/ >> >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Heiland, Randy <heil...@iu.edu> wrote: >>> I’m probably missing a basic concept and hoping someone can enlighten me. I >>> have a pipeline with a Programmable Source that reads in a (non-VTK >>> formatted) file, I process it and then I have filters in my pipeline that >>> act on that data. I want to be able to feed multiple files to the pipeline, >>> save images and/or create animations. I naively created a Python function in >>> the Pgmable Source, then save the PV State to a Python script, thinking I >>> could call the function from the end of that script. Doesn’t seem to be >>> possible. And I confess I’ve not given this deep thought - it’s easier to >>> ask the experts :-) Bottom line, we want to make this as dead simple for >>> our own users. >>> >>> Fwiw, I’ve zipped up 2 files - a .pvsm and a sample data file here: >>> http://pages.iu.edu/~heiland/physicell/pv_pcell.zip . You’d need to edit the >>> “dir” path in the Pgmable Source. >>> >>> Initially, I just want to save images/animation (over multiple files) with a >>> fixed camera view; later, it’d be nice to have simultaneous camera movement. >>> >>> thanks, Randy >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>> >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>> >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>> >>> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >>> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
