<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Daniel,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Yes there is a frame drawn between each command that is on a separate line in the Chimera command file. So the crossfade you want should use commands</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">disp #2</div><div class="">movie crossfade 25</div><div class="">~disp #2 ; disp #3</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">where the display of model #3 is done on the same line, separated by a colon, after the crossfade command. You can put as many commands on a line as you want separated by semicolons. These behaviors are documented although there is so much Chimera documentation it may be hard to find.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 20, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Daniel Asarnow <<a href="mailto:dasarnow@gmail.com" class="">dasarnow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello Chimera experts,</div><div class="">Here is another movie making question. I noticed that disp and ~disp trigger frames to be recorded, without a call to wait.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">disp #2</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">movie crossfade 25</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">~disp #2</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">disp #3</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">This would produce a movie that crossfades from model #2 to blank, with #3 suddenly appearing.</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">To get crossfades between two ligands, I had to use:</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">disp #2 </font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">movie crossfade 25</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">perframe "~disp #2" frames 1</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">disp #3</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">movie crossfade 25</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Based on the documentation I wasn't sure if this was intended behavior or a bug. Did I miss a more elegant way to crossfade between two models?</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Thanks,</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">-da</font></div></div>
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