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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2010 - 16:00:36 CDT

Hi,
  Can you gzip the .face and .vert files and email them to me?
I want to see exactly what is happening when they are created, this
could be some sort of internationalization issue, so I want to see
the actual files your runs generated.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Jayne Wallace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to display a protein using the MSMS representation. I have downloaded the file msms_i86Linux2_2.6.1.tar.gz from http://mgltools.scripps.edu/downloads. I've tried running the following command from within the VMD console:
>
> msms -if 1crn.xyzr -of 1crn
>
> and it seems to run OK. It tells me MSMS terminated normally and it generates 1crn.vert and 1crn.face files. However, I can't load them into VMD. When I try to do "load data into molecule" (1crn.pdb is already loaded into the viewer) I get the following error:
>
> ERROR) Reading raw graphics failed
>
> Also, if I do graphics -> representations -> MSMS then the screen goes blank and the console says:
>
> MSMS END
> Info) Done with MSMS surface.
> Info) Performing ACTC Triangle Consolidation...
> Info) ACTC: Created 959 triangle strips
> Info) ACTC: Average vertices per strip = 8
>
> At the top of the .vert and .face files are 2 comment lines. I get the same errors with or without these comment lines in the files.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help,
>
> Jayne 

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