# Animation with Cell/Point Array Status

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animation-with-cell-point-array-status/2326
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animation-with-cell-point-array-status/2326 "2019-07-31T02:04:30Z")
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### Author: ![Perchero](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Perchero](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Perchero)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animation-with-cell-point-array-status/2326/1 "2019-07-31T02:04:30Z")

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Hi, I’m really new to Paraview and I’m trying to make an animation from a single file (cannot change that source file) with 24 Cell/Point Array in it. Each point has the coloring information of the structure and when I clic on Coloring I got the option of “Solid Color” or one of the 24 points.  
What I need to do is create an animation which advance through the 24 points so I can show the color evolution of the structure in time.  
I tried the basic animation setting by adding file.\* - Point Arrays to the Time line in the animation view but when I hit Play nothing happens, the time goes on but there is no change in the coloring of the structure.

Any thoughts are welcome!

Thanks.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animation-with-cell-point-array-status/2326/2 "2019-08-02T07:28:49Z")

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Let me get this straight.

You want the array used to color your dataset with to change at each time step ?