Hi Reiko, I think you are also ray traycing the "nonbonded" representation of the atoms as well as the "nb_spheres".
Try hide nonbonded, (selection that contains your "knobed" atoms) and then ray traycing again. Cheers, Zac On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Reiko Kagawa wrote: > Hi everybody, > > When I ray-trace my ball-and-stick models, some knobs suddenly appear > on a sphere that is sitting alone, not bonded to anything in the > figure, hence turning into a shape that can no longer be called a > perfect sphere! This was seen in all ball-and-stick models I produced > and ray-traced, but normally happens to only one of the spheres in each > figure even if there are more than one spheres that are sitting alone. > > Has anybody experienced this? It would be great if somebody could tell > me how to get my perfect spheres back! > > Cheers, > > Reiko Kagawa > PhD Student > ATPase Group > MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit > Hills Road > Cambridge CB2 2XY > U.K. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX > and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Ezequiel Panepucci, Ph.D. - Laboratory of Prof. Axel Brunger HHMI - Stanford University Phone: 650-736-1714 Cell: 650-714-9414