Pietro, This sounds like you could use the "cartoon skip" trick mentioned a few weeks/months ago (http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Cartoon#Breaking_Up_a_Visualization_with_Cartoon_Skip). Instead of highlight color you can turn on the side chain helper for one object and off on the other.
Cheers, -- Jason On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Pietro Roversi <pietro.rove...@path.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Thank you Thomas! > > Is there a *local* version of Cartoon_side_chain_helper? > So that I can keep all other strands flat and only allow one > to "buckle" in correspondence to a single, specific Calpha? > > Regards > > Pietro > ________________________________________ > From: Thomas Holder [ad...@thomas-holder.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Holder > [spel...@users.sourceforge.net] > Sent: 13 March 2012 13:33 > To: Pietro Roversi > Cc: pymol-users > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] How do I force a cartoon strand throuch a given Calpha? > > Hi Petro, > > set cartoon_side_chain_helper, 1 > > http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Cartoon_side_chain_helper > > Cheers, > Thomas > > On 03/13/2012 01:45 PM, Pietro Roversi wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am showing the structure in cartoon and a few residues in sticks, >> I do not want the mainchain atoms only the sidechains, but when >> I hide the mainchain a few residues in beta sheets >> lose connectivity to their bet sheet cartoon - >> how do I force a cartoon strand throuch a given Calpha? >> >> Thanks >> >> Pietro > > -- > Thomas Holder > MPI for Developmental Biology > Spemannstr. 35 > D-72076 Tübingen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrödinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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