Re: [PyMOL] Transparent cartoons?

2003-09-17 Thread andRe ambrosio
hi, i've succesfully done transparent cartoons, combining PyMOL and ADOBE PHOTOSHOP. here goes my tip: on PyMOL: 1 - ray-trace and save your picture without cartoons (with your favorite color style); 2 - now, load the cartoons (with colors you want), and paint the previous molecule (without

[PyMOL] Pymol on mac

2003-09-17 Thread Smita
Hi All, I am a very new user of pymol. I just started yesterday. I have installed the 0.9 version for mac. When I start the program, the menu bar on the graphics window does not appear. I know that everything is possible with the command line but since I am a new user, I would prefer to see

RE: [PyMOL] alternative method for loading coordinates

2003-09-17 Thread Warren L. DeLano
Rob, There isn't a public API function which does this at present but the private _cmd.get_pdb call does exactly that. To see an example of how it is used, look at the save function in modules/pymol/exporting.py. I'll add a cmd.get_pdbstr() function to the next version of PyMOL, since

RE: [PyMOL] modifying atom coordinates

2003-09-17 Thread Warren L. DeLano
Hi Edmund, Actually, PyMOL uses a set of stored coordinates for fragments and residues. They can be found in $PYMOL_PATH/data/chempy/fragments. The files have .pkl extensions, which stands for pickled chempy model. These files can be viewed directly in PyMOL, or can be introspected by