[PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Warren, using PyMOL without any additional plug-ins, like slerpy or eMovie, is it possible to fade in or out a surface of, say, a ligand, between scenes? Best regards, Dirk. *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center, A 5.07

Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
01, 2009 8:57 AM To: PyMOLBB Subject: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie? Dear Warren, using PyMOL without any additional plug-ins, like slerpy or eMovie, is it possible to fade in or out a surface of, say, a ligand, between scenes? Best regards, Dirk

Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
[mailto:kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:56 AM To: PyMOLBB Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie? Dear Carsten, yes, thanks. However, for a smooth fading, that would require a lot of scenes. Is there a simple python loop, that would create scenes

Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]
Dirk, you could try playing around with different transparency settings in subsequent scenes to emulate the effect. HTH Carsten From: Dirk Kostrewa [mailto:kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:57 AM To: PyMOLBB Subject: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface

Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Matthew D. Hogg
I use a clunky set of mdo commands to do this. mdo 266: set transparency, .1, (palm+linker+Nterm) mdo 267: set transparency, .2, (palm+linker+Nterm) mdo 268: set transparency, .3, (palm+linker+Nterm) mdo 269: set transparency, .4, (palm+linker+Nterm) mdo 270: set transparency, .5,

Re: [PyMOL] Smooth fading of surface in movie?

2009-09-01 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi :) Some people are just not lazy enough ;) Lazy people like me spend a good deal of effort thinking about how to avoid efforts like writing repetitive lines :p And then you could come up with: from math import sin,pi mset 1 x300 for i in range(200,301): cmd.mdo( i, set