Re: [Open Babel] 3D Rendering of Molecules via POVRay

2019-07-01 Thread Jacob Durrant
Can't help but take advantage of this opportunity to mention my BlendMol plugin. :) It works with the open-source 3D modeling program Blender. Here are some links that might help: https://durrantlab.pitt.edu/blendmol/ https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformat

Re: [Open Babel] 3D Rendering of Molecules via POVRay

2019-06-24 Thread Noel O'Boyle
The pov file is intended as a starting point for the user. But you're right, rotating the molecule to be face-on as Avogadro does would be a good idea. - Noel On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, 22:27 Malte Frank Gerdes, wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to generate 3D Molecules via POVRay. The camera seems to not

[Open Babel] 3D Rendering of Molecules via POVRay

2019-06-24 Thread Malte Frank Gerdes
Hi, I'm trying to generate 3D Molecules via POVRay. The camera seems to not be in the 'optimal' spot. I've read the code and the camera is placed 10 units away from the centroid, looking at the centroid. The problem now is: for (rather complex) molecules this leads to extremely bad camera position