Re: [PyMOL] maximum sphere-quality ?

2010-10-27 Thread Xiao-Ping Zhang
Dear Jason, Thank you for your reply. I tried sphere_mode command on two machines. On Fedora 13, PyMol 1.3 set sphere_mode, 5 disabled sphere display. set sphere_mode, 4, 3, or 2 can show sphere, but it looks terrible. One Fedora 8, PyMol 1.3 set sphere_mode, 5 also disabled sphere display.

Re: [PyMOL] maximum sphere-quality ?

2010-10-27 Thread Xiao-Ping Zhang
Dear Roger Rowlett, Thank you for your reply. I did run "set stick_ball, on" before "set sphere_quality, xx". Sincerely, Xiao-Ping On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 17:20 -0400, Roger Rowlett wrote: > See http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Sphere_quality. > > On 10/27/2010 5:09 PM, Xiao-Ping Zhang wrot

Re: [PyMOL] maximum sphere-quality ?

2010-10-27 Thread Jason Vertrees
Hi Xiao-Ping, If you want the _best_ sphere quality, then try, set sphere_mode, 5 This is pixel-perfect rendering of spheres in PyMOL using openGL shaders. Otherwise, these quality settings in PyMOL are typically limited to how much memory your machine has; also, these settings are usually qu

[PyMOL] maximum sphere-quality ?

2010-10-27 Thread Xiao-Ping Zhang
Hi, PyMol users, I have noticed that Justin Lorieau (http://www.lorieau.com/methods-and-reference/molecular-viewers/30-pymol--ball-and-stick-figures.html) can use "set sphere_quality, 10" to generate a ball_stick picture. When I tried to use the same command, PyMol crashed. The default sphere_qu