Hi ...,
Hi Ethan,
Thank you for the information. I have ccp4i installed on the same PC,
the error from Coot is "Couldn't find render in default path and PATH
Shall we search the whole disk?" If I click "Yes", then Coot freezes
forever and I need to force close it.
This can take a long time (depending on your disk size) but should
result in something. Anyway...
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Ethan A Merritt
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Monday, 27 March, 2017 22:12:22 Paul Emsley wrote:
> On 27/03/17 21:55, Xiao Lei wrote:
> >
> >
> > Because the picture quality from Coot>>Draw>>Screenshot>>Simple is
> > very low, I tried Coot>>Draw>>Screenshot>>Povray or Raster3D to export
> > high quality picture, but I had an error of "render tool missing" and
> > Coot tried automatically find the render tool but failed. I use
> > Wincoot 0.8 version in Win7. I do know if any of you have similar
> > experience.
This is for windows...
> The render program is part of Ethan Merritt's Raster3D package/suite.
> The build system in coot that attempts to compile it is a bit fragile.
>
> http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/
<http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/>
That is the source package, yes.
The Raster3D programs are now in the CCP4 bundle also.
If render is not being found, you may have a PATH error.
Is your Coot finding other CCP4 programs?
Indeed CCP4 has raster3d now, even on Windows. I will adapt for this in
Coot ASAP.
For now I suggest either of the following two option:
- add C:\yourccp4installationdirectory\bin to PATH in the coot startup
script (runwincoot.bat in C:\yourwincootinstallationdirectory)
- edit the raster3d.py file
(C:\yourwincootinstallationdrirectory\python27\lib\site-packages\coot\)
from (line 44 or so):
r3d_exe = find_exe("render", "PATH")
to
r3d_exe = find_exe("render", "CCP4_BIN", "PATH")
If you need more help, please get in touch with me directly.
Bernhard
>
> Paul.
>
> p.s. Draw -> Additional Representation -> Ball & Stick makes things a
> bit nicer, as does Extensions -> Representation -> Highlight
Interesting
> Site (still not as nice as a proper molecular graphics program
though).
--
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg
MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
