<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I think what you want is the “color zone” command: </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">color zone #10 near sel distance 3</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">... will cause each triangle on the surface to be coloured according to the colour of the nearest atom in the selection within a 3Å cutoff distance.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 27 Jul 2020, at 14:48, Oleksiy Kovtun <<a href="mailto:okovtun@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk">okovtun@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div class="">Dear ChimeraX community, </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I need to colour the surface by selected side chains to highlight an intermolecular contact.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The command sequence:</div><div class="">#select atoms on the buried surface. The selection works correctly: </div><div class="">measure buriedarea #10/C:449-end withAtoms2 #9/A:449-end select true</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">#make a surface. A new surface #10.1 is generated:</div><div class="">surface #10/C resolution 7 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">#color surface yellow at selected residues.</div><div class="">color #10 & sel yellow target s</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The last command does not result in surface colouring although reports "colored 1 surfaces" upon its execution. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where is a mistake in the colouring approach?</div><div class="">I run chimeraX version 1.0 (2020-06-04) on Ubuntu 18.04.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you and best regards. </div><div class="">Oleksiy</div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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