[Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
I'm looking to create animations of datasets in Paraview by settig keyframes, and the doc mentions the Animation Inspector (under the view menu), but I can't find such an inspector. Can someone please give me any pointers? Thanks, - Olumide ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Olumide <50...@web.de> wrote: > I'm looking to create animations of datasets in Paraview by settig > keyframes, and the doc mentions the Animation Inspector (under the view > menu), but I can't find such an inspector. > > Can someone please give me any pointers? > > Thanks, > > - Olumide > > I believe it is now View->Animation View If you don't have that either, then my guess is you have an old version of Paraview. Thanks, David ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
I'm running Paraview 3.8.0 (RC1). I've found the Animation View and I'm trying to figure out how it works. On a not too unrelated note, is it possible to use the "Record Test" Tool feature to record a work session so that it can be rendered out as an animation? Thanks, - Olumide ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
Test recording and animations are totally different things. However, if all you want to do perform a sequence of actions for your demo, then you may use the test playback functionality. Utkarsh On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Olumide <50...@web.de> wrote: > I'm running Paraview 3.8.0 (RC1). I've found the Animation View and I'm > trying to figure out how it works. > > On a not too unrelated note, is it possible to use the "Record Test" Tool > feature to record a work session so that it can be rendered out as an > animation? > > Thanks, > > - Olumide > ___ > 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
I would like to create an animation in which the camera literally inspects various parts my model/scene. The sort of camera paths I need to specify are hard to manually describe as an animation curve (even very simple camera paths are hard to manually describe as animation curves). Is it possible to manually move the camera to various locations, and set a keyframe at each location as is the practice in 3d applications? This would be a _lot_ simpler than specifying animation curves by hand. Thanks, - Olumide ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
Yes. That is what the "Interpolate camera locations" track type choice is for. To use it, set that type for the camera and then add the track. Now double click on the track to pop up the Animation Keyframes dialog for the path and then double click on any "Position ..." entry to get to the camera location dialog. From there click on "use current" to copy in the current camera value. Note that although this lets you specify exactly where the camera is located and pointed at, the interpolation between those points is not a nice spline so making a nice animation with it is often not as easy as it sounds. I think, what we really need is a way to make the "use current" button apply to nodes in the follow path or orbit modes. There might be a way to do that that I am not aware of. If not please file a feature request. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Olumide <50...@web.de> wrote: > I would like to create an animation in which the camera literally inspects > various parts my model/scene. The sort of camera paths I need to specify are > hard to manually describe as an animation curve (even very simple camera > paths are hard to manually describe as animation curves). > > Is it possible to manually move the camera to various locations, and set a > keyframe at each location as is the practice in 3d applications? This would > be a _lot_ simpler than specifying animation curves by hand. > > Thanks, > > - Olumide > ___ > 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
Re: [Paraview] Creating Animations in Paraview, where's the Animation Inspector
Thanks. I've experimented with keyframes dialog. And you are right: the animation curve isn't nearly as nice as I'd expected. The standard solution to camera control in 3d software is to give the user access to the animation curves created by setting keyframes, so that the user than can set or correct the tangent/tension at the keyframes. Orbits are nice but they are very limited. Paths too are nice but they are extremely difficult to create define "by hand". I'd vote for animation curves. - Olumide ___ 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
