Hi Praz, There is no line transparency setting. But since the ray tracer anyway renders lines as thin sticks, you can show sticks instead of lines and use stick_transparency.
show sticks hide lines set stick_radius, 0.1 set stick_transparency, 0.5 ray Hope that helps. Cheers, Thomas On 14 Jan 2017, at 16:48, Praz Nina <praz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am wondering if it's possible to vary the transparency of the line > representation in PyMol. > > Currently I display the protein as a cartoon, then duplicate the object and > display it as a line (preset: technical, to be specific), but I want the line > representation to be less visible. Of course I could render out 2 separate > files and blend them in photoshop, but I'm wondering if it's possible in > PyMol. > > The set_transparency command is for surfaces and sliced, and the others are > for cartoons, spheres and sticks. I couldn't find one for lines. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks! -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
