I used to do that in POVray. you can use any program that writes POV output and can generate all the objects you want. I used to write each object I want to manipulate to a separate file and #declare ed it as a POVray object. Then I wrote a 'master' povray file, that #include d the aforementioned ones and added (with the time variable) the transformations I wanted to have. It is then really simple to e.g. rotate your molecule while you're flying towards the active site and slowly display a surface. The upside is, you have tremendous control, the downside is that it's not really reusable for other projects and the planning (which objects to create, and the writing out of them) takes quite a while. well, and you'll have to look a bit into povray (#declare, #include, transform, texture, camera, clock). I think it's well worth the effort. ah, and be careful, for some graphics programs it is important that you don't move anything between writing ou the objects as they translate your scene into a povray frame. good luck and have fun jens
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:22 +0200, Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm starting using pymol to generate movies to show my structure. > While its seems fairly easy to generate simple movies with rocking or > rotating molecules, I have been finding some difficulties > understanding how to generate more complex movies. > For instance, I'd love to generate a movie in which the molecule > rotate along the x axis, then along the y axis, while the surface > slowly shows up... or even more complicated scenarios, involving > changes in colors of the objects (of course not sudden ones!)... > Does anybody have some scripts to share with me, or can point me to > some web pages that would explain me how to do that? > Thanks a lot in advance, > best, > Sebastiano > > > > > -- > Sebastiano Pasqualato, PhD > IFOM-IEO Campus > Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale > Istituto Europeo di Oncologia > via Adamello, 16 > 20139 Milano > Italy > > tel +39 02 9437 5094 > fax +39 02 574 303 310 > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.22/1013 - Release Date: 9/17/2007 > 1:29 PM
