<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Keren,<br><br> Only the MD Movie tool knows how to play through a series of models <br>for an animation. I tried writing several Chimera marker models to a <br>single PDB file (File / Save PDB...) and playing it with MD Movie but it <br>flopped. Markers did not get connected properly and sizes and colors <br>were lost.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>MD Movie plays trajectories, which results in the implicit assumption that the atoms and bonds don't change between frames (which also allows for much less memory use). So it is naturally not going to work for a series of marker sets where presumably the atoms (markers) and bonds (connections) vary each frame.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>