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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 10 2009 - 10:22:45 CDT

Jeff,
  Working on it... It'll hopefully be in one of the beta versions
in a couple of weeks.

Cheers,
  John

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:14:41PM -0400, JT wrote:
> John,
> Hey, we've been getting this problem too. Tachyon images are so nice
> that it would be great to generate some. I know you probably have
> alot of stuff to do for the VMD 1.8.7 release. But do you think this
> fix will be included as well?
> Thanks,
> Jeff Tibbitt
>
>
>
> > Jason,
> > This is one of the items that's on my TODO list to finish up.
> > I have added 3-D texturing to Tachyon in support of the type of
> > electrostatic potential renderings we do in VMD, and I've prototyped
> > the necessary interfaces in VMD, but I haven't finished debugging the
> > code yet. At present I've either got a bug on the Tachyon side or
> > on the VMD side but I need a day of uninterrupted development time
> > in order to finish it off. I'll let you know when I have something,
> > but for the present moment, the Snapshot rendering method is
> > your best bet.
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:39:31PM -0400, Jason Winget wrote:
> >> My apologies if this has been asked and answered previously, but
> I've
> >> been unable to find a solution by trawling the mailing list
> archives.
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to render APBS electrostatic potentials using
> Tachyon.
> >> Although the RWB coloring shows up fine in the graphical window,
> when I
> >> render it the surface is colored solid white.
> >>
> >> The snapshot gives the proper coloring, and I know that Tachyon
> works
> >> fine otherwise. My guess is that this has something to do with the
> fact
> >> that the coloring for the surface potentials is controlled in the
> >> trajectory tab of the Representations menu, but I'm not sure how
> to fix
> >> it. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Jason Winget
> 

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