It is not a format change. It is now possible to load file series of xml files. For example, if you have
foo_0.vtu foo_1.vtu ... you can open them as a group and animate through the series. Were you looking for something else? -berk On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Dan Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds Great! > Can you point us to documentation on XML vtk file format changes related to > file series? > > * Added support for file series of XML based VTK files. > > Thanks > > Dan > > > On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Berk Geveci wrote: > >> The ParaView 3.4 release is now available for download from the >> ParaView web site (http://paraview.org). It is also available through >> CVS; the tag is ParaView-3-4-0. Since the 3.2 release, we have been >> focusing on usability and 3.4 contains many improvements and bug >> fixes. >> >> The major changes since 3.4 are: >> * VTK and ParaView are now licensed under the BSD license as opposed >> to modified BSD. >> * The multi*block and AMR support was improved significantly. Almost >> all filters, spreadsheet view and charts now support these datasets. >> * The selection capabilities of ParaView were significantly improved. >> For details, see Kitware Source, issue 6 or >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Data_Selection. >> * Some of other improvements and fixes are >> >> New features >> >> * Added support for plotting multiple point/cell values over time. >> * Save screenshot now allows saving of all views. >> * It is not possible to save higher resolution screenshots. >> * Added support for picking end*points of lines widgets (used in plot >> over line and streamlines) using 'p'. >> * Added support for scene exporters. Supported formats are X3D (binary >> and ascii), VRML 2 and POV (Persistence of Vision Raytracer). >> * Added ability to open multiple CTH and Exodus restart files. >> * Added temporal statistics filter that can be used to find average, >> min, max and standard deviation of arrays over time. >> * Added support for choosing (picking) custom center of rotation. >> * Added volume rendering support for multi*block datasets. The user >> now chooses which block to volume render. >> * Added filter to append all blocks of a multi*block dataset to one >> unstructured grid. Can be used to volume render the whole multi*block >> dataset. >> * Added support to color by block. >> * Added 2D views / slice representation for volumes (vtkImageData). >> * Added box and sphere widgets for slicing and clipping. >> * Added cube axes that can be used to show scale of a dataset. >> * Added support to color by AMR level. >> * Added support to turn on/off the visibility of multiple objects. >> Select multiple objects in the pipeline browser and click on one of >> the eyeballs. >> * Added multiple selection using ctrl (command on Mac). When >> performing selection after the first time, hold ctrl to add to the >> existing selection. >> * Added "Normal Glyphs" custom filter. >> * Added "zoom" to individual arrays in the spreadsheet view. >> Double*click on the title*bar to activate/deactivate. >> * Added support for displaying textures on polygonal data. >> >> Improvements to Existing Features >> >> * Plugin improvements. See the plugin page on the wiki for more >> information. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo >> * Added option to disable offscreen rendering while saving images. >> This option should be turned on if ParaView crashes when saving >> images. This is to get around an OpenGL bug that is on some Linux >> Intel drivers. >> * Added option to disable depth peeling when rendering translucent >> geometry. Some graphics card drivers claim to support everything that >> is needed for depth peeling while not implementing them. If you are >> experience crashes when transparency is on, disable depth peeling. >> * Added easily accessible menu to select the component of a vector to >> color by. >> * Added support for plotting more than one component of a vector on >> the same chart. >> * Plot over line now works with multi*block and AMR data. >> * CTH reader now combines X, Y and Z velocity components into a vector. >> * Added button to rescale to data range in bar charts. >> * Changed the default width of the scalar bar to a more reasonable >> size. Also tweaked the way scalar bar scaling works. >> * Improved partial array support (when an array exists only in some of >> the blocks of a multi*block dataset). >> * Added selection support for composite datasets. >> * Added chooser for unstructured volume rendering algorithm. >> * Added support for selecting array in gradient filter for image data. >> Removed gradient magnitude. Use gradient + array calculator. >> * Many comparative view fixes. >> * Many tiled*display fixes. >> * Many widgets used a few digit precision for floating point numbers >> making it impossible to use higher precision. Fixed. >> >> Reader and Writer Improvements >> >> * Added readers for MFIX and Fluent files to the GUI. >> * Added support for loading file series from the command line as well >> as from the recent file menu. >> * Added SILO reader. Needs more work. >> * Added support to save multi*block polygonal datasets as a collection >> of STL or PLY files. >> * Added support for file series of XML based VTK files. >> * Updated XDMF reader to XDMF 2. >> >> Bug Fixes >> >> * Point coordinates were not shown in the spreadsheet view if there >> were no point arrays. Fixed. >> * Calculator function was not reloaded with state. Fixed. >> * Annotation text was not scaling properly when rendering >> high*resolution animations/images. Fixed. >> * Color by menu was not updated in some cases. Fixed. >> * CTH reader was not handling missing files gracefully. Fixed. >> * Selection inspector could not display labels for global element ids. >> Fixed. >> * Loading state reseted to time step 0, fixed. >> * Pipeline was not always updating when time was shifted. Fixed. >> * Fixed crash when using Edit *> Delete All. >> * Fixed installation with VTK_USE_RPATH on. >> * Selection did not work in parallel if compositing was off. Fixed. >> * Selection labels were not updated during animation. Fixed. >> * Several undo/redo fixes. >> _______________________________________________ >> ParaView mailing list >> ParaView@paraview.org >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview