Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Noinaj, Nicholas (NIH/NIDDK) [F]
Not sure if u have solved this yet, but see 'cartoon skip', i think that is what u r looking for. Cheers Nick From: Gianluigi Caltabiano [chimic...@yahoo.it] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:50 To: James Starlight; pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subje

Re: [PyMOL] scenes and atom-wise colors

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Hanson
[responding to Folmer Fredslund, private message] Thanks, Folmer. What I was missing was the difference between color colorName, selection and set xxx_color, colorName and set xxx_color, colorName, selection Each of which does something totally different internally in PyMOL. I see now

[PyMOL] scenes and atom-wise colors

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Hanson
I guess I still don't understand exactly what a scene is: "scene" saves and restores scenes. A scene consists of the camera view, all object activity information, all atom-wise visibilities, all atom-wise colors, all representations, the global frame index, and may contain a text

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Hanson
That would not work if you were trying to show selected individual ribbon segments translucent, I think. Right? >From what I can tell, here is the list of settings that you can assign a selection. Notably missing is cartoon_transparency and ribbon_transparency. Perhaps because a cartoon object can

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Gianluigi Caltabiano
You need to create a new object of the part you want transparent and then set that cartoon as transparent (and hide the "original" cartoon for the selection).  G. Da: James Starlight A: pymol-users Inviato: Giovedì 6 Giugno 2013 12:36 Oggetto: [PyMOL] Carto

[PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread James Starlight
Dear PyMol users! I want to set transparency on the selected carton region of my protein ( I have closed GFP barell with the chromophore inside it so I'd like set transparency of some beta-shits to make chromophore easily visible ). In PyMol I've selected region corresponded to that Beta-sheets