Greetings, I am sure that I am missing something, but I can't get a particular animation script to work. I want to do the following set of steps:
1. load the iconic DNA transcription factor structure (1d66) 2. rotate it to align the helix along the Z axis (in/out of screen) 3. color & spacefill the atoms by structure 4. turn on slab 5. translate the structure along the Z axis so that the front edge of the molecule is slowly clipped off, showing the spiraling DNA strands and bound protein. I can get my script to visually do everything but clip off the front. I thought that using a command like this would do the trick: reset; move 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0.5; move 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5; move 0 0 180 0 0 0 0 0 0.5; (rotates structure to line up on Z axis) select all; color chain; delay .1; wireframe 30; spacefill 30; delay .1; spacefill 50; delay .1; spacefill 75; delay .1; spacefill 100; delay .1; spacefill 125; delay .1; spacefill 150; delay .1; spacefill 175; delay .1; spacefill 200; delay .1; spacefill 225; delay .1; spacefill 250; delay .1; spacefill 275; delay .1; spacefill 300; delay .1; spacefill 325; delay .1; spacefill 350; delay .1; spacefill 375; delay .1; spacefill 400; delay .1; spacefill; (animates the structure to go up to spacefill from wireframe) slab on; slab 100; (I think this is the correct setting) move 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 5 (does not work, or at least I don't see any change) The script as written works nicely up to when it is is supposed to slowly slice off the structure. I can manually slab through the molecule at this point, so I am pretty sure there should be a way to put this into a script. It sure seems like a simple Z translation is all that is called for, but I can't get a "move" or a "translate z" to make any difference. I hope I am just overlooking something obvious. If anyone can help figure out how, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew J. Saderholm Associate Professor of Chemistry Berea College, Berea, KY 40404 859-985-3322 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
