Hi Adam, Thanks for your response. As I imagined there isn't an easy way of doing this. I'll play around with settings and try to find a good compromise.
On Thu, 7 May 2020, 17:02 h. adam steinberg, <h.adam.steinb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also use this feature for illustrations and would love to find a better > way of controlling the outline thickness. Could anyone fill us in on the > history of this feature? > > In Chimera black outline is just a simple slider and it’s super easy to > use. You just move the slider up and down and it shows you the black > outline thickness without even having to render the image. > > In PyMOL you can do a couple of things: > 1. increasing the rendering size (more pixels in X and Y) will decrease > the thickness of the black outline (and infilling). > Decreasing the rendering size will make the black outline thicker. > Note however that the detail/quality of the image is better with higher > resolution and worse with lower resolution. > > 2. Change the ray_trace_gain. the default setting is 0.12. > Setting this to 1 will give you more black, but it’s not great (black > infill is worse in many areas) and it depends on the resolution you choose > in X and Y. > Setting this to 0 will give you less black, but it’s not great (infill > will be removed but so will many of the black outlines) and it depends on > the resolution you choose in X and Y. 0.06 works fairly good at 1500dpi > for less black and less infill. > > 3. Setting the Ray_trace_slope_factor higher, will also reduce the infill > black. 0.9 Ray_trace_slope_factor and ray_trace_gain of 0.2 at 1500dpi > looks fairly good. > > It seems that PyMOL doesn’t have a way to easily control the ray traced > black outline. > > > On May 6, 2020, at 10:47 AM, Gianluca Tomasello <giagi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > is there a proper way to increase outlines thickness in PyMol? > > > > I noticed that increasing ray_trace_gain setting outlines are drawn > thicker but increasing this setting increases also the number of outlines. > > > > Is there a way to increase thickness without increasing the outlines > number? > > _______________________________________________ > > PyMOL-users mailing list > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Unsubscribe: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/lists/pymol-users/unsubscribe > >
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