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From: Jérôme Hénin (jhenin_at_ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2011 - 11:20:41 CDT

Hi Brian,

You can set the colormap to arbitrary RGB values using the Tcl command:
color change rgb <color_number> <R> <G> <B>

The colormap comprises 1024 colors, numbered from 33 to 1056.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node81.html#ug:topic:coloring
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node122.html

Cheers,
Jerome

On 27 June 2011 16:55, Brian Puchala <puchala_at_wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have a script that uploads data for each frame into "User" and
> colors using that.  The data tells which atoms are grouped in a certain way
> which varies from frame to frame.  I would like to give each group a
> distinct color.  When there are more than about three or four different
> groups the color scale does not provide enough contrast between different
> groups, so I would like to be able to specify particular colors.  Is there
> an atom attribute that changes from frame to frame but does not use the
> color scale for coloring? Or a suggested work around?
>
> Thank you,
> Brian
>
>
>