Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4mg povray rendering

2007-06-01 Thread Ray Bourdeau
Thanks for the advice. You were right in that the background designator was not the only thing defining the "background". The fog designator was the problem, as it apparently put a black fog behind my molecule. Once I removed it, I got a nice transparent background (original header below). #in

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4mg povray rendering

2007-06-01 Thread James Stroud
For povray, background is implicit (it exists as black if unspecified). According to the docs "when the alpha channel is turned on, all areas of the image where the background is partly or fully visible will be partly or fully transparent". I haven't used ccp4mg, but it might be making a sphere

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4mg povray rendering

2007-06-01 Thread gbirrane
ehalf of Ray Bourdeau Sent: Fri 6/1/2007 1:54 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] ccp4mg povray rendering Hi all, I am generating images using ccp4mg (which is wonderful by the way), but I can not figure out how to generate a povray input file that will yield an image with a transparen

[ccp4bb] ccp4mg povray rendering

2007-06-01 Thread Ray Bourdeau
Hi all, I am generating images using ccp4mg (which is wonderful by the way), but I can not figure out how to generate a povray input file that will yield an image with a transparent background. Getting a transparent background using the screen snapshot works fine, but I would like to have a rend