Hi Paul,

Now I get closer to the final anwer!
After following your steps, I get the effect I want. However, afer I "ray" the 
structure, a small part of the structure which I don't mean to set transparent 
become blur. Please see the image in the red circle in fig-3 
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Au0LUkRKMCBCtN7XM_O0WlGKLhmtnyMV/view?usp=sharing).
 
How does that happen and how to fix it? 

Thank you again and best regards.
Yeping
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From:Smith, Paul <paul.sm...@kcl.ac.uk>
Send Time:2018 Dec 4 (Tue) 21:00
To:孙业平 <sunyep...@aliyun.com>; pymol-users <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject:RE: [PyMOL] how to make selected residues blurry?


Hi Yeping,
To avoid this ‘breaking’ of your protein you will first need to create a copy 
of the entire molecule, set the transparency of the copy to your desired value, 
then hide the residues you want to make transparent on your original object.
So, you will do something like this:
# create a copy of your original object:
create new_obj, <original_object>
# set all residues on the copy to be transparent:
set cartoon_transparency, <value>, new_obj
# hide the residues you wish to be transparent on your original object:
select hide, <your_selection>
cartoon_skip, hide and <original_object>
This should prevent the your molecule from appearing to be broken.
Cheers,
Paul

From: sunyeping <sunyep...@aliyun.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 3:23:00 AM
To: pymol-users; Smith, Paul
Subject: Re: [PyMOL] how to make selected residues blurry?
Hi, Paul,

Thank you for your reply. I think the ‘set transparency’ command is on the 
correct direction, but there is another problem. In order to apply the ‘set 
transparency’, we should use  "create" or "extract" command to make a new 
objective for the selected atoms. However, after I select the atoms that I want 
to make transparent, and use the command "extract":
     extract new_obj, sele
I find the new object is broken from the rest part of the structure. And then I 
use the commend:
 set cartoon_transparency, 0.7, new_obj
The breaking between the new objective (the transparent part) and the rest part 
become more obvious. Please see the figure at the line 
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XQqGeN7JRLfSlexk4J7ufESWhnTJM3bW/view?usp=sharing).
    Could you help me with the "breaking" problem?
Best regards,
Yeping



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From:Smith, Paul <paul.sm...@kcl.ac.uk>
Send Time:2018 Dec 3 (Mon) 20:38
To:孙业平 <sunyep...@aliyun.com>; pymol-users <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject:RE: [PyMOL] how to make selected residues blurry?


Hi,
The ‘set transparency’ command will set the transparency of a surface (e.g. the 
interface between a protein and the surrounding water). I think the command 
you’re after is ‘set cartoon_transparency’ 
(https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Cartoon#Various_Transparency_Levels). 
Depending on your choice of representation, see also ‘set sphere_transparency’ 
and ‘set stick_transparency’.
Cheers,
Paul
From: sunyeping via PyMOL-users
Sent: 03 December 2018 03:02
To: pymol-users
Subject: [PyMOL] how to make selected residues blurry?
Dear all,


Could you please check this figure at the following link?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uh9JRh7x0sjv-zGp_0ZKPc1cnWotkZA0/view?usp=sharing


The structure in blue in this figure is prepared from chain A of pdb id 4gms. 
Some residues are highlighted and look sharp ( as indicated in the figure: 
130-loop, 150-loop, 190-helix and 220-loop, and the corresponding residues are: 
 residues 134-138, 155-163, 188-195, 221-228, respectively), while other part 
of the structure look blurry. 

I wish to repeat this visual effect but don't know how. I try to select the 
residues and use "set transparency" command:
    set transparency, 0.8, sele
but it doesn't work.

Could anyone help me figure it out? With sincere thanks.



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