Can you possible share the vtk file you  are having issue with? You
can send it to me offline, if you cannot post it to the list.

Thanks
Utkarsh

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Michael Müller
<michael.muel...@ifk.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a question regarding the 'ParticlePathlines'-filter. What I want to do 
> is, load particle time series follow its trajectories and colour the 
> pathlines according to a certain variable...
> If I load my time series of vtk-files (see below), apply the 
> 'ParticlePathlines'-filter and skip through the time steps I can follow the 
> particle trajectories. I may also choose the variable for the particles 
> itself (TPART, see below). But for the pathlines the only options are 'Solid 
> Color' and 'TrailId', so it's not possible to color the tracks acc. to for 
> example TPART... Why that?
> - Is sth wrong with my file?
> - Do I need another paraview filter?
>
> I am currently using the downloaded version 3.8.1.
>
> And by the way, it is working properly using simple csv file series: after 
> loading the series, applying TableToPoints & ParticlePathlines filter I may 
> choose TPART for coloring the pathlines...
>
> Any hints on that?
>
> Thanks.
> Michael
>
>
> sample files:
> ... vtk:
> # vtk DataFile Version 3.0
> Particles: at time step 1
> ASCII
> DATASET POLYDATA
> POINTS      4 float
>   1.00000e+00 1.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
>   1.00000e+00 2.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
>   2.00000e+00 2.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
>   2.00000e+00 1.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
> POINT_DATA  4
> SCALARS TPART float 1
> LOOKUP_TABLE DEFAULT
>   3.00000e+02
>   3.00000e+02
>   3.00000e+02
>   3.00000e+02
>
> ... csv:
>   X,         Y,         Z,       TPART
>  1.000,     1.000,     0.000,     300
>  1.000,     2.000,     0.000,     300
>  2.000,     2.000,     0.000,     300
>  2.000,     1.000,     0.000,     300
>
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