Hi Jon, I think you're out of luck. The color of cartoon representation is controlled only by the CAs, which is also used to trace the cartoon. Probably using spheres is still the best option. Just make sure that you set both cartoon_smooth_loops and cartoon_flat_sheets to 0, so that these trace the backbone better. The nitrogens will then be on the line, though a bit to the side. Also play a bit with the sphere_scale... E.g.,
set cartoon_smooth_loops,0 set cartoon_flat_sheets,0 set sphere_scale,0.4 Hope it helps, Tsjerk On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, J. Fleming <jonathan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a good method to display backbone nitrogens while in cartoon > mode? I tried using spheres on the backbone nitrogen positions but it > doesn't look right. Sticks also looked strange as the transition from > cartoon to sticks was broken. Perhaps there is a way to color just the > cartoon backbone nitrogen blue? > > I'm open to any ideas. Thanks, > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > 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. Computational Chemist Medicinal Chemist Neuropharmacologist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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
