Hi,
Thanks for the reply. With regards to Povray, I had mentioned that program
as I had hoped that you could use a povray file generated in
ccp4mg/povray/etc and then somehow read that into blender for futher editing
(and make my life much easier - editing povray files to alter figures is a
real pain). Blender can render figures using its own machine, with YafRay,
or export it to povray format.
From what I've read, VRML format is not a good one, as for some reason
blender runs really slow after reading these files in.
Thanks.
From: "Michel Fodje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "P Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Protein models in Blender
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:38:04 -0600
Povray is just a renderer like the renderer in blender, only in the case
of povray, the input file defines the model. I would think that if it is
possible to generate a povray input file from molecule objects, it
should be possible to generate a VRML file which blender can open. If
I'm not mistaken, Mike Carson's Ribbons is able to write VRML files.
/Michel
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:23 -0700, P Hubbard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've had some spare time to teach myself blender, which seems to me to
be a
> powerful model editing and animation tool. However, I've not found any
> python scripts or software to convert objects such as ribbons mesh made
in
> ccp4mg or pymol into something that blender can use (I know its not
science,
> but it makes making figures more fun). I read a message posted a few
years
> back which suggested it is possible, but there were no details on how it
was
> done.
>
> Is there anyone out there who has done this?
>
> P.S: AFAIK, you can't do it via povray.
>
> Thanks!
>
> AGS
>
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