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From: siladitya mukherjee (mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2011 - 12:41:02 CDT

Thanks a lot.

Siladitya

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM, siladitya mukherjee
> <mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > I made the movie successfully, thanks a lot for your help. But I have
> > another question, in the movie I made I can only see the rotation but not
> > the aggregation of the system. Suppose I have a system in which particles
> > are aggregating from frame 1 to frame 500, my question is it possible to
> > make a movie in VMD where I can see the aggregation of the molecules from
> > the initial to the final frame, not only the rotational trajectory.
>
> use: VMD Movie Maker -> Movie Settings -> Trajectory
>
> axel.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Siladitya
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, siladitya mukherjee
> > <mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Thanks a lot. I will try that and let you know.
> >> Siladitya
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> There was a bug in the version of the movie maker plugin shipped
> >>> with VMD 1.9. It is fixed now, I've attached a copy of the latest
> >>> version of the movie maker plugin to this email.
> >>>
> >>> Please try replacing your existing copy of the vmdmovie plugin
> >>> with the new one I've attached to this email, and let me know if
> >>> it solves your problem or not.
> >>>
> >>> To replace your existing version with the new one, go into:
> >>> c:\Program Files
> >>> (or c:\Program Files (x86) if you're using a 64-bit Windows)
> >>>
> >>> Then cd to:
> >>> University of Illinois\vmd\plugins\noarch\tcl\vmdmovie1.8
> >>>
> >>> Within that directory, rename the old vmdmovie.tcl to vmdmovie.tcl.old
> >>> Then copy in the new vmdmovie.tcl I've attached to this email.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> John Stone
> >>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:11:15AM -0500, siladitya mukherjee wrote:
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> > I actually want to make a movie of my simulation in VMD. I have
> the
> >>> > trial
> >>> > version of videomach installed in my machine. So when I started
> >>> > making the
> >>> > movie the rendering portion was fine it did render the 500 frame
> >>> > properly
> >>> > (bmp screenshot) after that a message was prompted that could not
> >>> > find
> >>> > the videomach and need to specify the path, then I specified the
> >>> > path and
> >>> > the videomach window was opened but it did give a message like
> >>> > bmp0000
> >>> > image could not found and no input files, but the VMD executable
> at
> >>> > the
> >>> > same time has shown that movie generation is completed and there
> was
> >>> > no
> >>> > movie file in the specified working directory. I could not
> >>> > understand the
> >>> > problem. Any help would be appreciated.
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > Siladitya
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >>> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >>> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> >>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
> akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>