The output from my modelling software doesn’t define every particle at every time step and it seems to be causing havoc with two filters:
Temporal Particles to Path-lines filter: No path-lines drawn for particles if they aren’t defined for consecutive time steps, even if the particles new position is defined in a subsequent time step.
Temporal Interpolator: No interpolation, for the same cases as above.
e.g. for a very simple case with three particle and five time steps where particle 1 and 3 are defined at all time steps, but particle 2 is only defined at the first and last time step.
Particles 1 and 3 interpolate and have have path-lines, but particle 2 does not.
Is the simple answer to this that those filter really require every particle to be defined at every time step? Or is there a way to make those filters work under these circumstances?
I’m afraid this is the expected behavior of both these filters. That being said, if you have a way to identify which particle is which, it should be trivial to implement the filter you are looking for in a python programmable filter.
Thanks! I can code a script to populate interpolated particle locations for all the missing time steps, so that should do the job. That said, the python programmable filter sounds like it might be a better option? What would the general goal/output of the filter be such that it overcomes this problem? I currently only have in mind a bit of a brute force pre-processing method (i.e. generating interpolated particle locations for all time steps).
