[Chimera-users] ribbon transparency

[Thomas Goddard]

Hi Hernando,

   There are two ways to go about this.  One is to use the color command

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/color.html

say 20 times in a script to gradually increase the transparency to 1. 
You can specify the color as 4 values r,g,b,a in Chimera 1.4 daily 
builds (but not in 1.3).  A second approach is to download a plugin 
called "Animation Commands" from the Chimera Experimental Features web 
page (near the bottom):

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html

Installing this gives you the "transition" command which can fade 
transparency.

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/transition/transition.html

     Tom


hsosa at aecom.yu.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a command to control the transparency of a ribbon 
> representation or the whole model ?.
> I'm trying to fade in an out a molecule (in ribbon + wire atom 
> representation) in movie.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Hernando
>