[Chimera-users] Ribbon Interior Colors and Pov Ray

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Drew,
You are not doing anything wrong - it is a current shortcoming that  
not all aspects of the display in Chimera are passed along to Povray.

Personally, I always prefer to use the rendering from Chimera (not  
raytraced) for making clear and attractive images for publication.

Here is a previous post on this topic:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-June/004030.html>

The "image tips" may also be useful:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/print.html#tips>

Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


Below is a comparison of with and without raytracing, where the  
rendering from Chimera includes silhouette edges and ribbon-inside  
color.  I used "publication preset 1" then changed the ligand from  
sticks to the sphere representation, then saved images with and  
without raytracing (otherwise default settings).
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