Hi Miro, This one's in the archive, but it was also in my gmail archive, which made it easy to dig up. The setting you need is "transparency_mode":
set transparency_mode,1 This should give you the behaviour you expect for multiple transparent surfaces. In addition, you may want to have a look at the ray_transparency_* settings to tweak the appearance you obtain in you images. Cheers, Tsjerk On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, <ho...@chips.ncsu.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working with two copies of a molecule (moved relative to each other), > each being a separate object. Cartoons in both are set to be transparent > (cartoon_transparency=0.5), but after ray tracing there is no transparency > (or shadows) between objects (first objects completely obscures the > second), while transparency within an object works as expected. > > Is this by design? I noticed that if I make a composite objects, > transparency works, but one of the reasons I want separate objects is to > have different cartoon transparencies in each molecule, which AFAIK cannot > be achieved within a single object. > > My ultimate goal is to make an image, in which one molecule (shown as > cartoon) is close to the camera and is highly transparent ~90%, while the > other is a little further and is only slightly transparent (~10%). I > thought I could do this with two objects, but since transparency does not > seem to work I cannot see the second molecule through the first one after > ray tracing. Interestingly before ray tracing, I can see through the first > molecule (object), but that is gone after the tracing > > Any suggestions or workarounds? > > Thanks, > Miro > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. Junior UD (post-doc) Biomolecular NMR, Bijvoet Center Utrecht University Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands P: +31-30-2539931 F: +31-30-2537623 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
