Dear Pymol users, Does anyone know if there is a way to export surfaces into a file format suitable for import into 3D modellers (ie. Blender, 3DSMax, Lightwave, etc)? For that matter, is it possible at all to export anything in pymol?
I realize that asking for support of a particular 3D file format is a bit of a slippery slope - if one export format is supported, everyone will want support for their favourite format. This is why I embarked on a bit of a solitary crusade a few months ago - I wrote a small (and dubious) python script that converts MSMS calculated surfaces into the RAW file format, which *every* 3D modeller can import. Unfortunately, I could never figure out how to extrapolate or calculate the normals, so quite a bit of detail is lost in the conversion. How are surfaces calculated and stored in pymol? If writing an export filter/extension is trivial, I'd be willing to do it with a bit of hand holding. Cheers, Peter ----- Laboratory of Dr. Didier Picard University of Geneva Department of Cell Biology Sciences III 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Tel: +41 22 379 3254 Fax: +41 22 379 6442 Email: du...@cellbio.unige.ch http://www.picard.ch/DP/DPhome.html
