[Chimera-users] preferences - povray - keep input files doesn't

[Thomas Goddard]

Elaine Meng wrote:
> Is there some similarly simple way to skip the rendering?  I imagine 
> rendering is wasting a ton of time in his case...
> Elaine

Hi Elaine, Klaas,

You can just generate the POVray scene file *.pov and options files 
*.ini and not do the rendering by editing Chimera (version 1.2499) file

	chimera/share/chimera/printer.py

adding a line after line 1091 changing

		inifile.close()
		if raytraceKeepInput:

to

		inifile.close()
		return
		if raytraceKeepInput:

Then restart Chimera and use movie recorder to make the frames.

   As Eric pointed out this would be simpler if there was a way to 
execute a command on every Chimera frame.  You could then use the new 
"export" command to create the *.pov file without rendering it.

	Tom