Upon further inspection, it will draw color mapped scalars (of any
type), but not if VTK is mapping scalar values before coloring
(vtkMapper::InterpolateScalarsBeforeMapping).

In ParaView that setting is controlled by the  Interpolate Scalars
checkbox on the Display tab.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.dema...@kitware.com> wrote:
> It looks like a decifiency in the exporter, it can not do color
> mapping, and it will only color entire actors by solid colors or - if
> the active scalars are unsigned chars and assuming ScalarVisibility is
> on - it can color individual triangles by directly by their scalars.
>
> I have to look at some related code in the vtk manta interface soon,
> and will try to backport the lookup table mapping from that to the POV
> exporter. I will get to that sometime after paraview 3.8.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 28 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Fabian Braennstroem
> <f.braennstr...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Regards!
>> Fabian
>>
>> On 02/25/2010 09:50 PM, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>
>>> I will ping the author, and I will take a look when I get back into
>>> town next week.
>>>
>>> David E DeMarle
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>> R&D Engineer
>>> 28 Corporate Drive
>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Fabian Braennstroem
>>> <f.braennstr...@gmx.de>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> me again :-) Does no one have any hint?
>>>> Thanks and Regards!
>>>> Fabian
>>>> On 02/21/2010 11:16 AM, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just tested the povray exporter for glyphs. It seems, that the
>>>>> exporter does not include the coloring depending on the variable!?
>>>>> Maybe, I am missing some option during the export...
>>>>> Would be nice, if you have a hint, how to export to povray using
>>>>> paraview!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>> Fabian
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