Dear Pymollers, I have some basic Pymol questions because of some constraints that I have with my computer systems. I have a URGENT need to do some complicated animations for some upcoming talks. I have two computer systems:
Mac G4 Powerbook: 400 MHz, 1 Gig Ram, Pymol 0.9 installed through Fink with rTools installed (very slow in ray tracing or any image rendering for that matter but the animations are easy to script with the use of rTools, thanks Kristain :) !!!) Mac G5 desktop: dual 2 GHz, 1 Gig Ram, Mac Pymol installed (no rTools installed, for the life of me I can't figure out the problems with installing Pymol 0.90 or 0.92 from Fink on this machine) The good thing is that MacPymol REALLY SCREAMS in rendering and virtually everything else by comparison to my pokey G4 powerbook. The problem is I can't get the Fink install of Pymol to work on this machine and I can't figure out any way to use the rTools module of Kristain Rother with the stand-alone MacPymol (I wish that there was just some way to super-glue it to the side of MacPymol). I really got used to using the rTools movie commands for animations with the G4 Powerbook and I am having withdrawl symptoms trying to do animations with Pymol commands in MacPymol. I have searched the Pymol manual and various mail list archives but have come up with only the following commands for moving and rotating animations in the absence of rTools: Pre-canned moves and rotations: Util.rock, util.roll, movie.zoom, movie.rock, movie.roll, movie.tdroll, movie.nutate, movie.screw Single frame move/rotate commands to use with mdo or mappend in animations: Move, translate, rotate, turn I need to make very specific moves/rotations where the pre-canned scripts will not suffice. At this point I am making a zillion mdo xx: commands, one for each frame in the animation (don't laugh, it is the only solution that I could come up with, and it works well, but I am going brain dead!!!). Could someone please provide me with some SIMPLE example animation scripts that do not use rTools and that result in x, y, and z rotations and moves and do not use Python (which I absolutely do not understand). Thanks mercifully from the programming impaired, Kelley Dr. Kelley Moremen Professor Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (Room 3055) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7229 Office (706) 542-1705 Fax: (706) 542-1759 Email: more...@arches.uga.edu (send email with large attachments to: more...@bmb.uga.edu) Website: http://bmbiris.bmb.uga.edu/moremen/lab/
