Hi Gary & Jason,

two more things to add:

Optimized anaglyph is not available in immediate mode rendering.

You can reset all settings like this:
PyMOL> reinitialize settings

Cheers,
  Thomas

Jason Vertrees wrote, On 06/27/13 15:01:
> Hi Gary,
> 
> I think you misunderstood.
> 
> First, with a good video card, use Setting > Rendering > Modernize for
> the fastest and highest quality on screen rendering. In fact, it's
> essentially as good as ray tracing but without shadows. If your
> machine cannot handle this, the fallback is immediate mode rendering,
> which PyMOL has been using for years. Machines with older and lower
> quality video cards sometimes cannot handle this rendering technique:
> they're simply incapable of using such drawing techniques.
> 
>> Point 4 should now be:
>> 4) do not use 'ray' when trying to use anaglyph stereo. This is a shame 
>> because an anaglyph image for a slide or printout might be useful.
> 
> You have this backwards. The 'ray' command works just fine in anaglyph
> mode. I've made countless 3D images using 'ray' and anaglyph mode.
> 
>> Some irreversible colour changes are frustrating after working for hours on 
>> molecular structures, and then finding anaglyph does not work. That’s why 
>> I'd like to find a 'reset' command for the settings – edit all settings. 
>> Initialise wipes out all my hard work (molecules, objects, selections, maps, 
>> etc etc). Currently I just have to revert to the last saved pse file.
> 
> Since we do not have 'undo' for things like colors you have to save
> keep saving your session files so you don't lose any color changes.
> 
>> Any idea why using modern shaders does not work with anaglyph and might this 
>> be improved later?
> 
> Again, modern shaders do indeed work with PyMOL–I use them all the
> time–your video card just has to be good enough and you need to be
> using PyMOL v1.5 or later.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Jason

-- 
Thomas Holder
PyMOL Developer
Schrödinger Contractor

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