Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)
Hi Utkarsh, yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has not helped so much :-( Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and PV2.6.2. Take a look: ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi ParaView-2.6.2: http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi What do you think? Renato. Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Renato, Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following: * Go to View|Settings * In the Options dialog choose the Render View in the tree view on the left pane and then set Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots to unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could configure to solve it? Thanks for any help Renato. ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)
Hi Renato, I am confused, why do you say unchecking use-offscreen hasn't helped much? I can see that pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi is well-lit when compared with pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi, or am I missing something here? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Hi Utkarsh, yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has not helped so much :-( Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and PV2.6.2. Take a look: ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi ParaView-2.6.2: http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi What do you think? Renato. Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Renato, Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following: * Go to View|Settings * In the Options dialog choose the Render View in the tree view on the left pane and then set Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots to unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could configure to solve it? Thanks for any help Renato. ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)
Renato, Try turning off the light kit. That gave me some trouble in the past. If that helps, try removing the personalized paraview config files. Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Utkarsh Ayachit Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:42 PM To: Renato N. Elias Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited) Hi Renato, I am confused, why do you say unchecking use-offscreen hasn't helped much? I can see that pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi is well-lit when compared with pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi, or am I missing something here? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Hi Utkarsh, yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has not helped so much :-( Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and PV2.6.2. Take a look: ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-U NCHECKED.avi ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-C HECKED.avi ParaView-2.6.2: http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi What do you think? Renato. Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Renato, Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following: * Go to View|Settings * In the Options dialog choose the Render View in the tree view on the left pane and then set Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots to unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could configure to solve it? Thanks for any help Renato. ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)
This is probably due to a Windows OpenGL bug. It sounds like you have an older graphics card or you are on a laptop with intel graphics. If you turn off the light kit from the render view options OR if you turn off offscreen rendering when saving images, this should go away. -berk On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Renato N. Elias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could configure to solve it? Thanks for any help Renato. ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)
I'm doing other tests with a NVidia's card (with no luck yet). In fact, I was using the intel video card of my laptop (Vaio VGN-SZ430N) which was the same card used to render the movie using pv-2.6.2. The best in my opinion. Berk, I must keep at least one light turned on (headlight or the light kit), otherwise, I will get a completely dark image. I'll try copying the light kit attributes from pv-2.6.2 to pv-3.4.0. Renato. Berk Geveci wrote: That difference is definitely because of setting differences between the two version. 3 uses light kit by default. 2 did not, I believe. -berk On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Renato N. Elias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me. In fact, it helped. When I said that, I was making reference to the movie produced by pv.2.6.2 which, in my opinion, is the best in quality. []'s Renato. Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Hi Renato, I am confused, why do you say unchecking use-offscreen hasn't helped much? I can see that pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi is well-lit when compared with pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi, or am I missing something here? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Hi Utkarsh, yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has not helped so much :-( Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and PV2.6.2. Take a look: ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked): http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi ParaView-2.6.2: http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi What do you think? Renato. Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Renato, Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following: * Go to View|Settings * In the Options dialog choose the Render View in the tree view on the left pane and then set Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots to unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better? Utkarsh Renato N. Elias wrote: Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could configure to solve it? Thanks for any help Renato. ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
