[Chimera-users] Question about background transparency

[Weldon, Scott]

Thanks to all for the help. I have transparent images now.

Thanks,

Scott Weldon, M.A.
Supervisor, Medical Illustrator
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, BCM 390
Houston, TX 77030
TEL: (832) 355-9941
FAX: (832) 355-9948
E-mail: sweldon at bcm.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Goddard [mailto:goddard at cgl.ucsf.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:43 AM
To: Weldon, Scott
Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Question about background transparency

Hi Scott,

  You need 2 dashes in the background opacity option

	--bgopacity

According to the Chimera manual that option should occur before input
PDB files in the Chimera startup command.

  Here are the relevant pages of the Chimera User's Guide:

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/startup.html
	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/options.html

  Tom