[chimerax-users] Export a scene from Chimera and into ChimeraX?

[Oliver Clarke]

Hi,

I love the new visualization features in ChimeraX, but I also really like the depth of functionality available in the original Chimera.

I understand that ChimeraX has been rebuilt from the ground up and therefore can’t be expected to support importing sessions from Chimera1.

However, Chimera1 is also able to export static scenes - e.g. as COLLADA or VTK format.

Would it be possible to add an import function for these scenes in ChimeraX, so we can create a static scene just the way we like it in Chimera1, and then render it with e.g. ambient occlusion etc in ChimeraX?

Alternatively/additionally, would it be possible to add an export function for molecular surfaces to ChimeraX? One of the major improvements in ChimeraX (at least for my work) is that it has a robust and fast surface calculation function that works on large, multi chain structures. Would it be possible to export these surfaces (e.g as MRC format) so they could be imported into Chimera1?

Cheers
Oli