Actor Control

The Actor Control region of the Display tab on the property sheet associated with a data object can be used to adjust the position, scale, orientation, origin, and opacity of the actor associated with this data. This region of the interface will appear similar to what is shown in the image on the right. Each of the input areas is covered in more detail below. In each of the text entry areas, the action will not occur until the enter key is pressed in the area or the text widget looses focus (for example when you click in another text entry area).

 

Translate: These three values represent a translation in X, Y, and Z.

 

Scale: Enter scale values along the X, Y, and Z axes.

 

Orientation: Sliders are provided to adjust each of the scale entries to a value between 0 and 360 degrees. These represent rotations around the X, Y, and Z axis, and are applied in the order Z, then X, then Y.

 

Origin: This specifies the origin of the data set.

 

Opacity: Use the slider to adjust the opacity of the data object to a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Keep in mind that polygons are not sorted by depth in ParaView and therefore images generated with translucent polygons will often be incorrect.