Thanks Thomas! This is exactly what I was looking for.
-Yarrow > Hi Yarrow and Patrice, > > PyMOL introduced ambient occlusion in version 1.5.0 for surface > rendering. Try this: > > fetch 1rx1, async=0 > as surface > set ambient_occlusion_mode > > If you are a pymol sponsor, visit this page: > http://pymol.org/dsc/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=media:ambient_occlusion > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Thomas > > Patrice Peterson wrote, On 05/29/13 13:37: >> On 13-05-28 14:11, Yarrow Madrona wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I saw a post on this sight a while back about how to move the >>> lighting. However, I have not seen any information on how to change >>> the lighting of an internal cavity. I want the internal cavity to >>> appear darker as it would be more realistic. However, it is almost >>> like there is a light source coming from inside the object that >>> brightens it up. >>> >>> Does anyone know how to change the internal lighting of a cavity when >>> shown in surface representation? >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> Hey, >> >> What you probably want is some kind of ambient occlusion. The tachyon >> rendering library (which is used with VMD) can do that. However, you can >> get a similar effect in PyMOL using the POV-Ray renderer with >> appropriate radiosity settings. I'm using a modified make_pov.py script >> to do something similar [1], but the POV-Ray settings are not yet >> finalized (I'm very new to POV-Ray myself). I'd also suggest using >> POV-Ray 3.7 to allow the use of multiple cores, as radiosity can >> increase rendering time quite significantly. >> >> The file I posted does not yet have the correct field of view. I'll >> update the Gist once I've found the correct value. >> >> Cheers, >> Patrice >> >> [1] https://gist.github.com/runiq/5669624 >> >>> -- >>> Yarrow Madrona >>> >>> Graduate Student >>> Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Dept. >>> University of California, Irvine >>> Natural Sciences I, Rm 2403 >>> Irvine, CA 92697 > > -- > Thomas Holder > PyMOL Developer > Schrödinger Contractor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Yarrow Madrona Graduate Student Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Dept. University of California, Irvine Natural Sciences I, Rm 2403 Irvine, CA 92697 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ 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
