Menu:
Windows->Animate...
With this window a little bit of automatization has been done to create animations inside GiD. Nowadays, almost all results visualizations are animated. Only stream-lines are not automatized along all the steps of the current analysis.
Animate window
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Some animations can be done with combined results visualization, or separate analisis, for instance an isosurface animation from OLS result of ODDLS analysis with a contour fill of Pressure of the RANSOL analysis can also be done with this window. the only constraint is that the same number of steps and the same value of the steps should be present in both analysis.
This window lets you create an animation of the current Results View, where the limits can be fixed along the animation with Automatic Limits, and/or an animation of the Deformation of the meshes. To the right of the Step: label, the step value is shown. On the slide bar, the step number is shown.
The four buttons under the slide bar are self-explanatory: they 'Rewind', 'Stop', 'Play' and 'Step' the animation. Clicking on the slide bar will rewind or advance the animation. The green LED, which indicates that an animation is ready, will change to red while the animation is being saved to a file. This LED will change back to green when the animation is finished, or the 'Stop' button is pressed.
Options are:
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Automatic Limits:
GiD searches for the minimum and maximum values of the results along all the steps of the analysis and uses them to draw the results view through all the steps. Previously, it needs to visualize some resutls.
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Deformation:
Permits to record animation with a specific deformation.
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Endless:
The animation continues indefinately.
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Total time:
specfies the duration of the clip.
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Delay:
Specify a delay time between steps in milliseconds.
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Use step values as seconds:
the number of step will be used to the duration of the clip.
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From step I to step K:
allows the user to do an animation between step number I
and setp number J
, both included. This is also useful to skip the first step of an animation of a deformed mesh with a result visualization, which is the original state of the mesh, without deformation and without the result visualization.
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Save TIFF/JPEG/GIFs on:
Save snapshots, in TIFF, JPEG or GIF format, of each step when the 'Play' button is pushed. Here the filename given will be used as a prefix to create the TIFF/JPEG/GIFs; for instance, if you write MyAnimation, TIFF/JPEG/GIF files will be created with names MyAnimation-01.tif/MyAnimation-01.gif, MyAnimation-02.tif/MyAnimation-02.gif, and so on.
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Save MPEG/Avi mjpeg/AVI MS Video 1/AVI raw True Color/AVI raw 15 bpp (VD) /AVI raw 16 bpp (MS)/GIF on:
Entering a filename here, a MPEG/AVI/GIF file will be created when 'Play' button is pushed.
Note:
To avoid problems when trying to view an MPEG
format animation in Microsoft Windows
, it is strongly recommended that you use the Default
menu to select a 'standard' size and press the Resize
button. The graphical window will change to this 'standard' size. After finishing the animation, simply select Default
on the menu and press the Resize
button, and the previous size will be restored.
Note:
AVI MS Video 1 uses a simple video compression algorithm, commonly supported by all video players. it is the recommended.
Note:
If you want to recompress the animation with another codec, like xvid, the AVI raw True Color is recommended, as it saves each frame without compression.
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Create a stereoscopic animation:
permits to create a stereoscopic animation which for each frame the left eye view and the right view are saved, i.e. efectively doubling the width of the frames. Special software video players, and hardware, are needed to view this animation correctly. Only AVI format is supported at the time.
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Static analysis animation profile:
If the project has only one step, it is possible to simulate an animation by generating intermediate steps. Use this option to automatically generate several frames, following a lineal, cosine, triangular or sinusoidal interpolation between the normal state and the deformed state.
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Default:
This comobobox permits to choose the resolution of the clip.
profile factor for pseudo-animation
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