Thank you, Jason. I have completely missed this functionality! Vitaly
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Jason Vertrees <jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com> wrote: > Hi Vitaly, > > In our later versions of PyMOL there's a setting called "edit_light" that > controls which light may be moved by the mouse in 3-button Lights Mode. To > enable 3-button Lights Mode, just click Mouse > 3-Button Lights. Use > shift+mouse to move the light around. > > To control which lights are being manipulated: > > # let there be 3 lights > > set light_count, 3 > > # move the second specular light > > set edit_light, 2 > > Now, in 3-button Lights mode, the mouse will move light 2. > > The default light is ambient which cannot be moved. If you have 3 lights on > (ambient and two specular), then you can move the two specular two lights by > setting edit_light to 1 or 2. > > Cheers, > > -- Jason > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:22 AM, V.V. <vvos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Occasionally I need to play around with the number of lights and their >> vectors to get nice rendering. It's not something I do often, so every >> time I need to scour through the mailing list to recall Pymol >> definitions of light sources (the page on "light" badly needs >> updating). So... Can someone write a script that would grab the light >> data from the settings and present it as a separate object? A reverse >> action, where dragging the points of the light vector would update the >> "lightX" values would also be nice. >> >> Thank you, >> Vitaly >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, >> is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly >> thought >> leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, >> whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most >> recent posts - join the conversation now. >> http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > Director of Core Modeling Products > Schrödinger, Inc. > > (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com > (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ 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
