I have single bonds, background color, and translucency going now! I will e-mail what I have by next week, so you can correct any awkward construction I may have thought out :)
Translucency does not look like the Jmol rendering, but that is a good thing in this case :) Note that, in the rgbf mode, the color of light passing through a translucent colored object is altered, making it more 'realistic'. (explanation again: http://derakon.chainmailstore.com/povtrans.html) What should be the standard, rgbf or rgbt? http://www.molmod.com/~schraven/jmoltrans.jpg http://www.molmod.com/~schraven/rgbt.jpg http://www.molmod.com/~schraven/rgbf.jpg (On a later point I will fix light, ambient etc. as far as I can get.) New points: # jmol now writes an .ini file with in it just some basic povray stuff in it. It is not necessary, but good practice to do this, it should be done :) What is the best way to write a call to do this? > cat povtest.ini Input_File_Name=/home/schra/povtest Output_to_File=true Output_File_Type=T Output_File_Name=/home/schra/jmol.tga Height=498 Width=804 Antialias=true Antialias_Threshold=0.1 Display=true Pause_When_Done=true Verbose=false # Historically the PovraySaver put balls at both the ends of a bond. If I activate that for renderCylinder I have the side effect that for a bond between two different elements two balls of both colors are put in the middle (invisible if bonds are opaque). I would like to add a (private?) renderPoint method that can render ... points that are not of type atom. Is that ok? # For double bonds, PovraySaver had a rather ingenious scheme! Shall I translate that to the Exporter class, or else: where can I find the scheme Jmol uses in the viewer? # I 'm not very charmed by the ways to steer color TRANSLUCENT , you can use a scale from 0 to 8, (but not 1)! Well, and integers between 30 and 255 or something, or decimals... it is rather complex! Is this for backward compatibility? Or is it possible to change it and stick to one scheme? -- Greetings, Pim http://www.molmod.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
