* Armand Tepper <wjwtep...@yahoo.com> [2003-04-15 04:09] wrote: > Dear all, > > 1) In a future version of Pymol, would it be possible > to parametrize the POVray output such that all > textures, finishes etc. are declared once as variables > (e.g. something like #declare carbon_texture = > texture....) ? Now the textures are defined for every > primitive (atoms, bonds, triangles) individually, > making changing image appearance a heavy search and > replace job.
I'd like to second this. It would make editing easier, although I have found it possible to do with vim as long as I pick easily distinquishable colours for the different parts of the image. > 2) when the Pymol built-in image rendering is used, > the slab/clipping of the current view is used for the > rendering. Instead, the POVray output includes the > whole object regardless of the part that is clipped in > the Pymol view. Are there any workarounds for this? I'm not sure that I agree with this, but then when I want to use POVray I'm not simply wanting to render what I can see in the PyMOL view, since I find the PyMOL rendering sufficient for most "normal" images. But this is simply my opinion. :) Cheers, Robert -- Robert L. Campbell, Ph.D. <r...@post.queensu.ca> Senior Research Associate phone: 613-533-6821 Dept. of Biochemistry, Queen's University, fax: 613-633-2497 Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada http://adelie.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc PGP Fingerprint: 9B49 3D3F A489 05DC B35C 8E33 F238 A8F5 F635 C0E2
