[PyMOL] True Black?

2004-04-26 Thread pdoucett
Hello Pymoliacs, I have been playing around with the lighting and gamma settings, but can never get a true black. The black always shows up as grey. Does anyone know how to get black to be black? Pete D. UCLA Chemistry

Re: [PyMOL] True Black?

2004-04-27 Thread pdoucett
Hello Matt, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this still gives me a very light grey--nowhere near what you are seeing on your machine. The molecule is *clearly* visible against the black background. I am using pymol on win XP. I think I will put pymol on my linux machine and see if that

[PyMOL] Now that's black

2004-04-27 Thread pdoucett
Wow! That's it. I wonder why that works but setting the rbg for "black" to 0,0,0 doesn't? I used: set_color new_black, [0,0,0] select all color new_black Looks mahvelous. Thanks a lot. Pete UCLA Chemistry Thomas Stout said: > > I have defined a new color in PyMOL that gets me closer to

[PyMOL] Basic hardware questions

2004-06-14 Thread pdoucett
Hello All, I was switching in and out some hardware and was trying to understand exactly what does what when it comes to pyMol. Assumng all is equal, what role the processor, memory and video card play in on-screen manipulations and rendering. Maybe a better way to ask this question is: if you