PyMOL will already dump POVRAY format files; you should be able to feed these to Blender somehow. This looks like it might be useful:
http://jmsoler.free.fr/util/blenderfile/povanim.htm No idea if it will work well. . . but probably worth a try before writing something yourself. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Scott Classen wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Scott Classen <clas...@berkeley.edu> > > Date: March 10, 2004 4:20:53 PM PST > > To: Warren DeLano <war...@delanoscientific.com> > > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Is exporting CGOs vertices possible? > > > > Hello Fellow PyMOLers, > > I am interested in using another program (Blender) to do some more > > complicated animations/rendering of molecules. Unfortunately Blender > > does not import very many types of files. I have been able to use > > Gerard Kleywegts MOLEMAN2 to convert my PDB to a VRML1 file and import > > that into Blender, but this is very limited in its abilities. > > > > I would love to be able to get the beautiful cartoons, ribbons, > > sticks, and other shapes from PyMOL and then import them into Blender. > > Is there a way to get a file from PyMOL that contains all the vertices > > that construct objects. i.e the vertices that describe a ribbon > > representation of my protein. > > > > I understand that PyMOL generates CGOs that it feeds to the internal > > ray-tracer. Can PyMOL write out these vertices to a file instead? I > > would then have to write a python script or something that would parse > > the PyMOL vertices into a file that is importable into Blender (that's > > a whole other can of worms). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Scott > > Hello PyMOLers, > I also think it is important to know which vertices are connected to > each other in order to form the proper faces. I'm looking into the > Blender API a bit more and it looks like it needs the vertex x,y,z > coordinates and the "face data" in order to connect the vertices in a > meaningful way. These are the two entries I think are important. > > Vert(x=0, y=0, z=0) > Get a new vertex object. > Parameters: > x - The x coordinate of the vertex. > ?????????? (type=float) > y - The y coordinate of the vertex. > ?????????? (type=float) > z - The z coordinate of the vertex. > ?????????? (type=float) > Returns: > A new NMVert object. > ?????????? (type=NMVert) > > > > > Face(vertexList=None) > Get a new face object. > Parameters: > vertexList - A list of up to 4 NMVerts (mesh vertex objects). > ?????????? (type=list) > Returns: > A new NMFace object. > ?????????? (type=NMFace) > > > > I think it would be sufficient to have a txt file that looks like this > with the vertex coord followed by a list of the vertices that make up > relevent faces. > > xyz > xyz > xyz > xyz > xyz > abcd > abcd > abcd > abcd > abcd > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Scott Classen, Ph.D. > ACS Postdoctoral Fellow > Department of Molecular & Cell Biology > University of California, Berkeley > 237 Hildebrand Hall #3206 > Berkeley, CA 94720-3206 > LAB 510.643.9491 > FAX 510.643.9290 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
