> 1. Is there any way of getting rid of the shadows when ray-tracing a > picture (I have tried turning off the "specular reflections" > setting but > that doesn't seem to help)?
set reflect=0 set direct=0.7 > 2. I would also like to export non-ray-traced images. However, when I > write PNG files from these images, they are speckled (there > is a grid of > small white dots superimposed on the image). I don't have this problem > when writing out ray-traced figures, so I assume that there is nothing > strange about the programs that I'm using to read the png files. Also, > the white dots only lie over the surface. There is also an > inhibitor in > these figures and it looks fine. Sounds like a bug, either in PyMOL, your OpenGL renderer, or your PNG viewer. What version of PyMOL are you using? Have you tried another PNG viewer? What OS and hardware are you using? I have seem similar problems on SGIs... [You may want to email me with your follow-up so that other's aren't spammed with the technical details]. Warren