Hi all, I am making progress learning to make animations with Paraview. The animation capabilities in Paraview are very good. There appear to be a couple of limitations, but I am not sure whether these are limitations in my understanding or in Paraview itself. Details below. Thanks!
When I use the "follow path" option it does not seem to be possible to adjust the "up direction" within a path. I can have a different "up direction" in subsequent paths within one animation, but the jump between up directions is abrupt. Are there any plans to allow up direction to change as a path is followed? Is there a way to smooth the jump between subsequent paths with a different up direction? With the "follow path" option there doesn't seem to be any way of using the current camera view like in the "Interpolate camera locations" option. Is this possible? Is it likely to be implemented in the future? Even if the "up direction" information for the current camera view is lost I would still find such a functionality useful. If I want a new path to start or finish at the same place as a previous path then I have to open the window for the previous path, copy one of the coords, close the window, open the window for the new path, paste the coord, then repeat for all other coords. This is a lot of point-and-clicking. Is there a way to short cut this? For example having 2 path windows open concurrently would be a help, or being able to create a new path as a copy of a previous path would be even better. When I use "Interpolate camera locations" there seems to be quite a long slow overshoot. I guess Paraview is doing some kind of spline interpolation. Is there a way to stop it doing this? Simple linear interpolation between locations would be just fine for my purposes. My current approach to minimise this overshoot is to copy my target location several times in close temporal proximity. e.g. if I want to move from position A at the start to position B after 10 seconds, then stay at position B, my current approach is to repeat position B at 10, 10.5 and 11 seconds. This isn't perfect but it is a manageable workaround. I REALLY like the ability to use the current camera view when setting up camera locations for interpolation. BTW I am making animations for a public lecture on Antarctic ice sheet modelling. If you want to see what I come up with let me know, I'll be happy to share. Regards, Rupert ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- Rupert Gladstone, PhD Antarctic Ice Sheet researcher, University of Lapland https://groups.google.com/d/forum/fisoc https://lacris.ulapland.fi/en/persons/rupert-gladstone( 21a10f7f-3ea9-4c06-b9a4-320eb4ca8e29).html https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=FNgAsPkAAAAJ http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-1086-2013 ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------
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