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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 13:06:06 CDT

Matthew,
  Your VMD-L post bounced because you're not subscribed to the list, just
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Its not very easy to render non-moving text in VMD as all of the text
drawing facilities in VMD were originally designed to be used as labels
that live in the same coordinate system as the molecular structures.
At some point I do plan to add true 2-D text rendering to VMD, but at
the present time the only way to do that would be to use a script to reset
the transformation matrix for your text, or to draw your text into a new
molecule and set the new molecule as "fixed", that would prevent it from
being affected by rotations, scaling, translation, etc. The fixed molecule
method is probably the easiest way to accomplish this.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:12:23AM -0500, owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu wrote:
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:31:13 +0100
> From: "Mr Matthew Timothy Downton" <matthew.downton_at_physics.org>
> To: <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: static text
>
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to display text in the vmd window, that doesn't move when the scene changes? I'm making an animated tour of a protein and I'd like to add some commentary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew 

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