Hello, <div><br></div><div>I am new to this extremely powerful visualization tool and I use the 3.14 version of paraview binary on windows 7 . Both binary and compiled one on linux. </div><div>I could not get the following 2 things to work for me.
</div><div><br></div><div>1. The xyz and lammps-dump reader comes along with the binary, but I do not see them in the compiled one, why? </div><div> Then with the binary, I try to load up multi-block xyz or lammps-dump files, I can only get the first frame. I check "Information" tab on the left, the "Index" and "Value" of Time is blank. So there is something wrong. Both the xyz and lammps-dump files are produced by lammps and can be recognized by other visualization software. So I think I need to do something about the readers. So can someone tell me how to get this done? </div>
<div> Eventually, I want to be able to add whatever readers in paraview by myself so that I can stop converting hundreds of gigabytes of data from one format to another. First, I want to find the xyz and lammps-dump readers within the source code and try to understand and tweak them. Then I can follow the more comprehensive manual to do more things. I just could not find them in the source folder, can someone point them to me? </div>
<div><br></div><div>2. For publication purpose, I want to render the points as spheres without "masking points". I tried the "sphere" option in "glyph" filter. It worked pretty well when the number of "spheres" were limited to 5000. But when I tried to represent a million atoms with spheres, paraview won't be responding for a long time and I have to kill the process. So I wondering if there is a way that I can present millions of atoms with "sphere" in paraview more efficiently ? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your attention</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>