Hi again, list. I need help on how to render an unconventional (non-protein) pdb file with a big number of atoms in it. Even with no display (console mode), pymol still crashes due to insufficient memory. A different hardware is out of the question and a smaller file would defeat my purpose, so I would like to simplify the representation. What i do is to 'show sphere', then 'set sphere_scale,0.01'. However, it seems it takes the same amount of memory for pymol to display small or large spheres (i thought that by using very small sphere_scale, pymol would tend to treat each atom more and more as a single pixel). The dots representation is also very complex to display I believe. In my case the line display can not be used either.
Are there some settings to increase the memory allocated to pymol ? Are there settings of the dots representation so that only one dot is represented for each atom ? Any additional ideas are of course welcome ! Thanks in advance ! Garteiser Philippe OMRF, Cardiovascular Biology dpt. Doctoral candidate, OU Bioengineering Advisors: Dr. Tim Mather, Dr M. Uli Nollert 12600 N Macarthur Crown Pointe apt. #1423 Oklahoma City, OK 73142 home: (405) 603 7091 work: (405) 271 4924 "It does not pay to leave a live dragon out of your calculations" - Tolkien
