[Paraview] Animating In Batch

[Kent Eschenberg]

Hi Utkarsh,

Thanks! That is a simple, elegant solution.

Your example doesn't seem to save the results to files. Obviously, this is 
critical in batch since otherwise there is no point.

Does that happen at "scene.Play()"? Does it use the details (from the state 
file, I would guess) provided when saving the animation interactively?

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Hi Kent,
> 
> Here's a sample plython script for doing what you want:
>  > from paraview.servermanager import *
>  > Connect()
>  > LoadState("/tmp/animation.pvsm");
>  > view = GetRenderView()
>  > view.StillRender()
>  > pxm = ProxyManager()
>  > scene = pxm.GetProxy("animation", "AnimationScene1")
>  > scene.Play()
> 
> I've attached the animation.pvsm file that I used (created with CVS 
> paraview). Currently (on CVS head), when I load this state I am getting 
> some error messages. I'll look into those, but they don't affect the 
> animation.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> 
> Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>> There doesn't seem to be a concise guide to making animations in batch 
>> so I could use some help with putting together the pieces.
>>
>> ===
>> 1) Interactively, build the animation using a small version of the 
>> data. It is NOT an animation over time.
>>
>> 2) Save the state then edit the state file to use the huge version of 
>> the data.
>>
>> 3) Create a simple Python script that reads the state file.
>>
>> 4) Compiled ParaView 3.2.1 from source and set the flags to wrap it in 
>> Python. This generate pvbatch.
>>
>> 5) Use pvbatch to run the Python script, producing files containing 
>> the frames.
>> ===
>>
>> But that doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to tell pvbatch to make 
>> the animation? All that information is in the state file.
>>
>> Or do I have to painfully rebuild the animation as described in
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/f/f9/Servermanager2.pdf ?
>>
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Scientific Visualization Specialist
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, PA

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