createMissingPtclsDumps.py (deprecated in VSim 11)

This analyzer writes empty particle dump files for any missing particle dumps. This is a workaround for the fact that VisIt does not know how to handle missing dumps and instead continues to display the previous particle dump of the simulation. It automatically determines all species in the .pre file and checks for field dumps without a corresponding particle dataset for each species.

-s <simname>, --simulationName=<simname>

(string, required)

<simname> is the name of the simulation to be analyzed. The file extension should NOT be included in this text field.

-S <spname>, --speciesName=<spname>

(string, required)

<spname> is the name of the species to analyze.

-w, --overwrite

(flag)

Whether a dataset or group should be overwritten if it already exists.

Output

This analyzer writes simulationName_speciesName_NN.h5, for each value of NN not having a particle dump but having field dumps.

If you are running this analyzer from the UI, and the output dataset file already exists, then it will be overwritten each time the analyzer is run, unless you uncheck the Overwrite Existing Files box near the bottom of the Analysis Results pane.

If you are running the analyzer from the command line, the dataset will not be overwritten unless the -w, or --overwrite flag is specified on the command line.

The results of your analyzer may not be written into the output file if you have not specified the overwrite option to be True.