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Toolbar: Graphics

Icons in the Graphics tab of the Toolbar change aspects of the overall display such as lighting. See also: making images, making movies

icon description command equivalent
white background set bgColor white
gray background set bgColor gray
black background set bgColor black
 default lighting: directional and ambient, no shadows lighting simple
ambient lighting and ambient shadows lighting soft
directional and ambient lighting,
directional and ambient shadows
lighting full
ambient lighting, no shadows, silhouettes lighting flat
 toggle directional shadows
(turning on directional lighting as needed to show them)
lighting shadows true
(with intensity 0.5 if it was 0)
- OR -
lighting shadows false
toggle silhouettes (outlines) graphics silhouettes true
- OR -
graphics silhouettes false
view selection view sel
- OR (if nothing is selected) -
view
view all view
view all, standard orientation view orient
show Side View tool show "Side View"

UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics / May 2020