An easy alternative for making PyMOL-quality ("publication quality")
molecular images and animations is PolyView-3D
(http://polyview.cchmc.org/polyview3d.html). You just fill out a form --
you don't have to know any PyMOL commands, and you don't have to install
or license PyMOL. The animations can be dropped into a Powerpoint slide.
It won't do everything you might want, but it will certainly do most
things easily including highlighting of specific residues, a
ConSurf-colored molecule, or a morph. Examples of some animations are in
3 slides here:
http://bioinformatics.org/firstglance/fgij/ppt/polyview-3d-examples.ppt
Using Jmol's 'capture' command, it is also now possible to make similar
animations (very good but not quite the image quality of PyMOL), saved
in multiGIFs, ready to drop into Powerpoint. The 'capture' command does
not yet have sufficient control for many purposes -- not nearly as much
control as you have in the PolyView-3D form.
Eric
On 1/28/15 9:03 AM, Brenton Horne wrote:
Hi,
As I now have seen how PyMOL can create high-quality PNG files using
POV-ray I was eager to see what I could do using Jmol. I exported a
structure to POV-ray using /File->Export->Render in POV-Ray/ but now
I'm stuck as I've just got a .pov file and no idea of how I can turn
this into a PNG as I have no experience with the POV-ray command line
or any other form of this software. Is there any way of exporting
POV-Ray structures in PNG in Jmol via the command line or even the
drop-down menus?
Thanks for your time,
Brenton
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