[Jmol-users] Different Colour Schemes for Traces and Ribbons

[Warwick Bailey]

For our teaching application it is important to differentiate clearly between, say, "trace" and "ribbons" when the two renderings are overalyed on a single molecule.

This is trivial using the applet popup menu:

render > structures > trace
color > trace > green

The trace appears green. Good.

render > structures > ribbons
color >ribbons >red

Now I see red ribbons with a green trace. Good - that is what I want my students to see.

However, I want to script this using a RASMOL script so that the student sees green trace / red ribbons when the applet loads. So I write this script:

spacefill off;
wireframe off;  
trace on;
color green;
ribbons on;
color red;

But what I see is BOTH the trace AND the ribbons coloured red.

Any suggestions anybody as to the correct way to script the display so that I can get the different structures selectively rendered in different colors with a RASMOL script?

Thank you.

Warwick

Warwick R Bailey MRSC CChem
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