Hello Matt,
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this still gives me a very light
grey--nowhere near what you are seeing on your machine. The molecule is
*clearly* visible against the black background. I am using pymol on win XP. I
think I will put pymol on my linux machine and see if that makes a difference.
Pete
Matt Franklin <franklin.m...@gene.com> said:
>
> On Monday, April 26, 2004, at 04:19 PM, <pdouc...@chem.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello Pymoliacs,
> >
> > I have been playing around with the lighting and gamma settings, but
> > can
> > never get a true black. The black always shows up as grey. Does anyone
> > know
> > how to get black to be black?
> >
> > Pete D.
> > UCLA Chemistry
> >
> >
>
> Hi Pete -
>
> If what you want is a "flat black", i.e. just a silhouette of the
> ribbon/surface/whatever, then set the color to black and turn the
> specular reflections off ("set specular, 0"). This certainly looks
> like rgb 0,0,0 to me (MacPymol v.0.94, OS X 10.2.8) and is completely
> invisible in front of a black background. If you're looking for a
> black with some texture visible, then you will get some gr(e/a)y in
> with your black...
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Matt
>
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