[Chimera-users] ribbon transparency

[hsosa at aecom.yu.edu]

I  tried the "transition" command, it works but it seems very slow.  
Each frame transition takes a very long time to occur. I guess  after 
recording it would be OK.

Thanks

Hernando


Thomas Goddard wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>

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