<html><head><base href="x-msg://107/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Qinghua,</div><div>Basically you need to make a transparent color, then use it to color the ribbon.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see this previous post for details:<div><<a href="http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2006-December/001155.html">http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2006-December/001155.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Elaine<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Qinghua Liao wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear chimera's users,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Could someone tell me how to set the transparency of ribbon of a protein? Thanks very much </div>All the best,<br>Qinghua<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>