[Paraview] Colormap opacity / transparency

2011-06-20 Thread Gary Strangman
Hi again all, I solved my linked-colormap problem when rendering multiple volumes (thanks Utkarsh, using separate variable names worked great!). My next issue is this: can someone explain when colormap transparency is enabled? In some of my data views, the opacity option is grayed out (for example

Re: [Paraview] Colormap opacity / transparency

2011-06-21 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Gray, Currently ParaView supports changing the opacity in colormaps only for volume rendering. When rending slice or points as surface or anything other than volume, opacity will be fixed to single value that can be set on the Display tab. Utkarsh On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Gary Strangman

Re: [Paraview] Colormap opacity / transparency

2011-06-24 Thread Gary Strangman
Hi Utkarsh, Half-progress. So, I can display a variable-transparency volume rendering (in this case of a head MRI, set so that the 0s around the head are transparent). I can then add a .vtk surface, and I can sorta see "both" datasets when opacity on the surface is set to 1.00 ... the grayscale vo

Re: [Paraview] Colormap opacity / transparency

2011-06-27 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Ah! Now you are getting into murky waters :). Volume rendering together with translucent geometry is difficult thing to do with OpenGL. You need a full fledged ray-tracer for that to work correctly. You are correct, in VTK/ParaView, the geometries are rendered (including translucent geometry) befor