Am 14.10.14 21:02, schrieb Brenton Horne:
> Hi Rolf
>
> I am a real noob when it comes to Jmol and scripting the only codes I've
> ever implemented I've had to ask about on here, first, so I have
> absolutely no idea as to how to implement this code, all I want is an
> animated 3D GIF with a transparent background via whatever mechanism ya
> can think of for me, provided it isn't like too tedious (which I define
> as taking like >30 mins per GIF). I understand the size X and size Y, as
> they're the width and height of the GIF files I want (or so I think,
> correct me if I am wrong), respectively.
>
Yes, 'sizeX' and 'sizeY' set width and height of the image in pixel.
Applying the script is quite easy:
1) Open the Jmol console from the popup menu ("Console")
2) Paste the function code into the lower part of the window. (The upper
part displays results and messages.)
Make sure that there are no extra line feeds introduced. Each script
line should end either with a semicolon ';' or a brace '{','}'. You can
edit the code after you pasted it in and before you run it. Combine any
line that got split with the following one without deleting any space
character.
3) Click the "Run" button and look for any error messages in the upper
part of the console window. If it was succesful you can now use the
command 'exportAnimation' like any other Jmol command until the applet
is reloaded or the application is restarted.
4) Enter the command with the parameters you would like to use.
The paramters in detail:
'baseFilename': the beginning part of the filename, identical to all
files (e.g.: "jmol_movie")
sizeX: width of the image in pixel (e.g.: "500")
sizeY: height of the image in pixel (e.g.: "500")
stepCount: the number of times the 'stepCommandSet' is run by the
command ("animation steps"); this is also the number of images created
stepCommandSet: Jmol commands used to animate the structure; multiple
commands must be separated by semicolons; very often a rotation by a few
degrees is wanted, but you could also do more sophisticated animations
In my example the 'stepCommandSet' parameter
"rotate axisangle {1 1 0} 5" does a rotation by 5 degrees. To get
afull 360 degree rotation you need 72 steps. If you wanted to get a
smoother rotation you could for example set it to 2 degrees and would
need 180 steps ('stepCount' parameter) and get 180 images. But be
careful, this will also make the resulting animated GIF much larger.
Please look at the Jmol scripting documentation for more details on the
'rotate' command
(http://jena3d.fli-leibniz.de/doc/jmol_scripting/index.htm#rotate).
As you might have seen in my answer to Bob's surface test request, I
would recommend now to do the conversion to 'indexed' mode manually
(menu: "Image->Mode->Indexed", my translation of the german menu
entries), setting the rastering option to one of the 'Flyd Steinberg'
modes. The automatic conversion can give a quite poor result. But I
would recommend to do the manual conversion after you have saved in XCF
format. This way you still have the original full colors in there.
Regards,
Rolf
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