[OpenFOAM] Create animation in background

tehache · January 23, 2007, 06:14

Hi there,

I realized that when creating an animation, I have to maintain paraView in the foreground, otherwise any windows in front of it will be captured to the frames beeing saved. I have found that there seems to be a batch mode, but, honestly, did not understand how to do that. I would like to create some animations which take a long time, cant have paraFoam in the foreground all the time - maybe someone has a quick solution ?

Thank you !

dmoroian · January 23, 2007, 07:23

I just tried to create an animation from some data and all the time I had the paraview window halv coverd by an xterm.
Still you can see there is no problem in the produced animation:

I remember having similar problems using OpenDX with hardware rendering... but I don't know if that will help you too much.

Dragos

gschaider · January 23, 2007, 07:49

I had a similar problem. My solution (I use gnome with multiple workspaces) was to start the animation on one workspace and continue working on other workspaces. Then the Hardware rendering seems to work OK (but your milage may vary and you may get no pictures at all)

tehache · April 10, 2007, 04:24

just in case someone else has the problem:
I now start OpenFOAM, let the animation start, kill it, and restart, this time paraview, using the paraview trace file generated before as input.
This works fine.
Just a stupid workaround, maybe there is a better solution - but helps

hsieh · April 14, 2007, 07:46

Hi, Thomas,

What is a paraview trace file? Is it generated automatically by paraFoam?

Pei

msrinath80 · April 14, 2007, 21:03

I think it is the file generated by paraview with a .pvs extension when it is killed by the user.

January 23, 2007, 06:14	Create animation in background	#1
tehache Senior Member Thomas Jung Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 102 Rep Power: 17	Hi there, I realized that when creating an animation, I have to maintain paraView in the foreground, otherwise any windows in front of it will be captured to the frames beeing saved. I have found that there seems to be a batch mode, but, honestly, did not understand how to do that. I would like to create some animations which take a long time, cant have paraFoam in the foreground all the time - maybe someone has a quick solution ? Thank you !

January 23, 2007, 07:23	I just tried to create an anim	#2
dmoroian Senior Member Dragos Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 648 Rep Power: 20	I just tried to create an animation from some data and all the time I had the paraview window halv coverd by an xterm. Still you can see there is no problem in the produced animation: I remember having similar problems using OpenDX with hardware rendering... but I don't know if that will help you too much. Dragos

January 23, 2007, 07:49	I had a similar problem. My so	#3
gschaider Assistant Moderator Bernhard Gschaider Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,225 Rep Power: 51	I had a similar problem. My solution (I use gnome with multiple workspaces) was to start the animation on one workspace and continue working on other workspaces. Then the Hardware rendering seems to work OK (but your milage may vary and you may get no pictures at all) __________________ Note: I don't use "Friend"-feature on this forum out of principle. Ah. And by the way: I'm not on Facebook either. So don't be offended if I don't accept your invitation/friend request

April 10, 2007, 04:24	just in case someone else has	#4
tehache Senior Member Thomas Jung Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 102 Rep Power: 17	just in case someone else has the problem: I now start OpenFOAM, let the animation start, kill it, and restart, this time paraview, using the paraview trace file generated before as input. This works fine. Just a stupid workaround, maybe there is a better solution - but helps

April 14, 2007, 07:46	Hi, Thomas, What is a parav	#5
hsieh Senior Member Pei-Ying Hsieh Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 317 Rep Power: 18	Hi, Thomas, What is a paraview trace file? Is it generated automatically by paraFoam? Pei

April 14, 2007, 21:03	I think it is the file generat	#6
msrinath80 Senior Member Srinath Madhavan (a.k.a pUl\|) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada Posts: 703 Rep Power: 21	I think it is the file generated by paraview with a .pvs extension when it is killed by the user.

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