I think by default the "light kit" is off in pvbatch. The GUI turns it on, and hence its enabled for you in Python shell. try setting
> view.UseLight = 1 # turns on light kit > view.LightSwitch =0 # turns of default front light On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Joe Borġ <m...@jdborg.com> wrote: > I am trying to renders pictures of a geometry in batch. > > However, when I play with the following view.BackLightAzimuth and > view.BackLightElevation, the light on the object does not move. > > When I do these commands in the pyhton shell and then renders it works. > > This is the part of the script where I set up the picture: > > view = GetRenderView() > view.CameraParallelProjection = 1 > view.CameraPosition = [1.58, 0, 10] > view.CameraFocalPoint = [1.58, 0, 0] > view.CameraViewUp = [0.0, 1.0, 0.0] > view.CameraParallelScale = 1.66 > view.CenterAxesVisibility = 0 > view.BackLightAzimuth = 0 > view.BackLightElevation = 45 > view.Background = [1,1,1] > view.ViewSize = [1700, 900] > Render() > WriteImage("test.png") > > > > Regards, > Joseph David Borġ > http://www.jdborg.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/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 Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview