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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net