<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Kotaro,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Unfortunately ChimeraX does not yet have a slider for playing through the morph. There is a feature request for this</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/2784" class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/2784</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can replay the morph without creating a new copy of it by specifying the id number of the morph</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>volume morph #1-10 model #11</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To record a movie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>movie record ; volume morph #1-10 model #11 ; wait 250 ; movie encode ~/Desktop/mapmorph.mp4</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Commands are separated by semicolors. The volume morph command shows 25 frames per step by default but it returns immediately, so the "wait 250" command says to wait that many frames before going to the next command which outputs the movie file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Our older program Chimera has a user interface panel with a slider and a Record button so it a bit easier to use currently. But it doesn't have nice ambient shadow lighting ("light soft"). In the future we will have a morph user interface panel in ChimeraX.</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><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 8, 2020, at 6:08 PM, Kotaro TANAKA <<a href="mailto:kttn8769@gmail.com" class="">kttn8769@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">I'm really a novice to chimerax, so please forgive me to ask two
more questions...</p><p class="">I have created a volume morph by 'volume morph #1-10', and after
that,</p><p class="">* How to open a morph control window (with a slider bar,
play/stop/... buttons, etc.)<br class="">
* How to create a movie file from the morph (a single run of the
morph)<br class="">
</p><p class="">It is difficult for me to find out how in the document
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html</a><br class="">
</p><p class="">Thank you<br class="">
</p><p class="">Kotaro<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020/06/09 0:41, Eric Pettersen
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!important;" class="">I should obtain a volume series
simply by opening the maps at once in a file opening
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<div class="">To follow up to what Tom wrote, you have to use the ‘open’
command to create a series, you can’t use the open-file dialog.</div>
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