[PyMOL] cgo cylinders with flat ends?

2005-05-10 Thread Martyn Symmons
dear pymol-users I have used CGO to put down 20 angstrom-wide cylinders on the helical bits of a large RNA molecule. They come out with nice rounded ends but I would prefer flattened ends if possible. Is there any way I can do that? Thanks for any help/advice. cheer

[PyMOL] disappearing surface representation

2005-05-10 Thread Karen Champagne
Hi Everyone, I am trying to make a movie using Pymol that shows the surface of my protein disappear as it rotates. For example I rotate it around the y-axis for 360 degrees in 2 degree increments. And have it become more transparent over 90 degrees until it disappears altogether and just

Re: [PyMOL] Scene function

2005-05-10 Thread Joel Tyndall
Hi again, So I have rechecked the problem and have more details. What happens when one double clicks the file, or drags and drops it to pymol icon or uses open with...is still the smae ie pymol begins to open then crashes! It attempts to open and the the standard microsoft error appears: "pymol

RE: [PyMOL] disappearing surface representation

2005-05-10 Thread Warren DeLano
Karen, Your problem is that opaque_background is turned off, so trasparency is being handled via alpha-channel, and not via blending. If you re-enable this setting (remove "set ray_opaque_background, off") then I think you'll get the kind of effect you seek. Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano,