Hi Sean,

Thanks for posting this.  I also encountered and took note of this bug
when making the figures for your script.

Cheers,

-- Jason

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Sean Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi PyMOLers,
>
> I think there is a bug in PyMOL regarding the "set cartoon_transparency"
> setting.  According to the PyMOL-Wiki, the arguments are:
>
> set cartoon_transparency, value, selection
>
> where the "value" ranges from 0.0-1.0 and the selection is optional.
> However, selections that are not entire objects does not seem to function
> properly as in other similar settings (e.g. set transparency).  I tried the
> following test:
>
> fetch 1bna
> hide all
> show cartoon
> set cartoon_transparency, 0.5, c. a
> #It should say "cartoon_transparency set for 280 atoms in object "1bna"
> ray
>
> However, after ray tracing, no part of the object is shown as being
> transparent.  Of course, when you leave out the optional "selection" then
> everything behaves as expected.  I hope that this behaviour gets corrected
> for the next build.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sean
>
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