Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-07 Thread Noinaj, Nicholas (NIH/NIDDK) [F]
07, 2013 2:38 PM To: Noinaj, Nicholas (NIH/NIDDK) [F] Cc: Gianluigi Caltabiano; James Starlight; pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency I must say, 'cartoon skip' does not do what I thought it would do. fetch 1RV1 cartoon skip, i. 55 # now a helix

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-07 Thread Robert Hanson
I must say, 'cartoon skip' does not do what I thought it would do. fetch 1RV1 cartoon skip, i. 55 # now a helix section is turned into a loop cartoon skip, i. 56 # now there is a break, but two non-helix ends cartoon skip, i. 57 # now there is a break, with two non-helix ends I guess I understan

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Noinaj, Nicholas (NIH/NIDDK) [F]
eforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency You need to create a new object of the part you want transparent and then set that cartoon as transparent (and hide the "original" cartoon for the selection). G. Da: James Starlight A: pymol-users Invia

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Hanson
That would not work if you were trying to show selected individual ribbon segments translucent, I think. Right? >From what I can tell, here is the list of settings that you can assign a selection. Notably missing is cartoon_transparency and ribbon_transparency. Perhaps because a cartoon object can

Re: [PyMOL] Cartoon transparency

2013-06-06 Thread Gianluigi Caltabiano
You need to create a new object of the part you want transparent and then set that cartoon as transparent (and hide the "original" cartoon for the selection).  G. Da: James Starlight A: pymol-users Inviato: Giovedì 6 Giugno 2013 12:36 Oggetto: [PyMOL] Carto

RE: [PyMOL] Cartoon Transparency AND Transparent Mesh

2004-02-20 Thread Warren DeLano
Paul, (Where you wrote mesh, you meant surface right?) PyMOL's OpenGL renderer does a poor job of combining transparent objects, but the ray-tracer should be capable of doing this so long as multi-layer transparency is enabled. This may or may not be acceptable given all additional